Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first call for proposals may be made in April with a deadline for submission around the end of May . |
| 2 | Legato Systems Inc intends making its Motif-based cross-platform backup and recovery software , Legato Networker , available for UnixWare around the first of the year . |
| 3 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 4 | She had a nanny , Kent-born Judith Pamell who took the infant Diana for walks around the grounds in a well-used , highly-sprung perambulator . |
| 5 | So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee , exulting and then despairing , then exulting again . |
| 6 | Fighting intensified during February around the regional capital , Stepanakert , in Nagorny Karabakh , the disputed and mainly Armenian-inhabited enclave within the territory of Azerbaijan . |
| 7 | They allow leading firms continuously to adjust to the collapse of the timescales for the diffusion of products around the world ; people all over the world are increasingly aware of what others are buying . |
| 8 | Here , we encounter the same pattern which so clearly distinguishes man from the apes — notable absence of canine-tooth dimorphism , prominent displays of hair around the face and neck of the male and , in the female , a secondary sexual display on the chest . |
| 9 | Not long ago a performer in Paris won some notoriety for employing her vagina to swallow , and then powerfully eject , table tennis balls and the history of the seamier side of nightlife around the world is littered with accounts of vaginas that have played harmonicas or smoked cigarettes . |
| 10 | Beyond that , however , there are clearly certain factors which have acted to throw a kind of cloak of invisibility around the semantic contribution made by syntactic constructions . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if there were more than three spatial dimensions , the orbits of planets around the sun or electrons around a nucleus would be unstable and they would tend to spiral inward . |
| 12 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 13 | DameJanet ( Vaughan ) used to tell us about flying the flag of freedom around the world actually a good message to hear ! ’ |
| 14 | There was a tremendous crescendo of noise around the ground . |
| 15 | made lots of noise around the football table . |
| 16 | On the side which will hold the fixed panel , apply a thick bead of mastic around the inside of the jamb recesses , and up the joint with the jamb . |
| 17 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 18 | The beautiful island of Gigha spread out before us with a cluster of houses around the little bay of Ardminish . |
| 19 | A critical review of literature around the notion of the military-industrial complex and that relevant from development economics will be made to formulate an appropriate theory for the mineral-energy complex . |
| 20 | Greatbatch and Thomson — again to the arm ball — were swept aside in the space of four deliveries , Patel chose once more to live by the sword and this time died by it , and Cairns fell meekly , to the ever-increasing cluster of fielders around the bat . |
| 21 | Top quality mattresses are also hand side-stitched — this will look like rows of dimples around the borders to hold the springs firmly in place at the edges and to strengthen the border . |
| 22 | There are , in fact , infinitely many other families of homoclinic orbits winding any number of times around the z-axis . |
| 23 | While most of the neighbours favoured Spanish-style architecture , and their gardens rioted with purple bougainvillaea and pink oleanders , the sombre , towering hedges of yew around the Lewis house looked distinctly foreign . |
| 24 | Her fingers running through the ruff of fur around the cat 's neck tightened as Jehan spoke , and the cat yowled and it bit playfully at her hand . |
| 25 | He inspected the helmet , with its heavy crest and the circling ruff of fur around the rim ; his blow had cut the ruff and damaged the cheek guard . |
| 26 | Now this overround tends to be larger in fields with a large number of runners , and also tends to be larger in these popular races , so that at times when there 's lots of money around the bookies , of course , and we expect them to do this , are very careful to make sure that the odds are well in their favour , because on these races where there 's lots of money staked their risk is higher . |
| 27 | What we have is an excess of definitions around the feminine whereas men are the undefined norm . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 29 | It has been able to anticipate requirements of operators around the world . |
| 30 | While senior members of the party and government hold a series of meetings around the city , the Stefan the Great Movement for National Revival is holding what it calls a ‘ great gathering ’ in the main stadium . |