Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homemaker design One of the most popular designs from the Fifties , items of which are probably hidden away in cupboards around the region . |
| 2 | With over 200 PWRs already in operation around the world this was a proven design . |
| 3 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 4 | On May 2nd preachers squared off in pulpits around the city on the subjects of condoms and sex education . |
| 5 | Got some they 've got some old terminology still around the organics , still in use around organics , it should be . |
| 6 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 7 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 8 | His temper , held so carefully in check around Sandra 's fragile emotions , exploded . |
| 9 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 10 | The search is therefore on in laboratories around the world for new ways of obtaining useful chemicals from C 1 building blocks such as carbon monoxide , formaldehyde ( obtained by oxidising methanol ) , perhaps carbon dioxide , but especially methanol . |
| 11 | The search is therefore on in laboratories around the world for new ways of obtaining useful chemicals from C 1 building blocks such as carbon monoxide , formaldehyde ( obtained by oxidising methanol ) , perhaps carbon dioxide , but especially methanol . |
| 12 | That 's more than likely why the likes of Solitaire and Minesweeper get booted as often in offices around the country , and why Leisure Suit Larry was so popular with the City types a while back . |
| 13 | A fine gold garland of flowers winds wildly in plasterwork around geometric patterns on the ceiling , gold and white Corinthian columns flank the grand double doors , and paintings of Greek friezes by Cipriani surmount the overdoors . |
| 14 | The man once dubbed ‘ Uncle Frank ’ for his genial style , wandered deep in thought around his garden . |
| 15 | There are several variants of the argument , differing at least in part around the degree of class reductionism and the amount of reflexivity allowed to the working class racist subject . |
| 16 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |