Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years , that area has rightly moved from a marginalized position in cultural theory to become a focus for discussions around language , female desire and popular narratives . |
| 2 | Petersburg so that our feed aid for animals around St. Petersburg — £20 million worth — reaches its destination . |
| 3 | He made this reconnaissance with Captain Roger Courtney , of the SBS , who had been in the Mediterranean for some months after training around Arran in Scotland . |
| 4 | Heat is also lost through gaps around windows , so use adhesive foam strips , top and bottom , and nylon brush strips on the sides . |
| 5 | There 's been concern for the families of radiation workers after a report found clusters of Leukaemia around Sellafield . |
| 6 | Perhaps even more interesting than the status of race as a demarcator of differentiation , is the absence of division around religion , and in particular around the ethnic-religious combination of Irish Catholicism . |
| 7 | Had Everton lost , then there is no doubt that the mutterings of discontent around Goodison Park would have become an audible cry challenging Kendall 's leadership . |
| 8 | However , average sediment accumulation rates were again higher in the north ( 329.4164.3gm -2 yr -1 ) than the central ( 160.061.3gm -2 yr -1 ) and south basins ( 146.022.4gm -2 yr -1 ) , in part because of the concentration of settlement around Tzintzuntzan ( Fig. 1 ) during the late Postclassic . |
| 9 | During the suppression of the agrarian unrest of 1830 he attempted , unsuccessfully , to improve the wages of labourers around Dorchester . |
| 10 | On no account should you get involved in any form of intrigue around September 29th , when the Sun is challenged by the revolutionary planet Uranus . |
| 11 | The report looked specifically at the cluster of cases around Dounreay and concluded that they were most likely to have been caused by oil workers rather than emissions from the nuclear plant . |
| 12 | Lorraine Mann , of the Scottish Campaign against Nuclear Dumping , said it was too early to dismiss a connection between a cluster of cases around Thurso and the Dounreay plant . |
| 13 | Roger Jacobi has described a vivid picture of hunters around Cheddar Gorge using the many shallow access valleys from the Levels to the top of the Mendips as ambush points for animals moving to and fro over the seasons , and it is noticeable how many of the Mesolithic sites located by Joan Taylor and Rebecca Smart are at the top end of shallow valleys in the front of the Mendips and close to former springs . |
| 14 | One sees huge deposits , such as the high cliffs of gravel around Embrun in the French Alps , and not far away , the heap of great boulders at Claps de Luc , where half a mountain fell into the valley of the Drome one wet afternoon in 1442 ( plate 5.2 ) . |
| 15 | Prior to this , parachute and helibore raiding tasks will take place on pockets of enemy around Safra and on adjacent islands ( other training areas ) . |
| 16 | Hoe and then mulch beds , either covering the entire surface or in a radius of 2ft around plants if material is scarce . |
| 17 | The New Zealand Government 's Department of Conservation therefore proposed the introduction of restrictions on the use of set-nets around Banks Peninsula , through the use of an Act of Parliament which most New Zealanders had probably never heard of . |
| 18 | Lightening hit overhead power cables at Stanton Harcourt , cutting off thousands of homes around Burford , Bourton on the Water and the Rissingtons . |
| 19 | And for that reason I believe erm it should be deleted from the locational criteria in terms of the area of search around Greater York . |
| 20 | This refers to an increase in the numbers of nematode eggs in the faeces of animals around parturition . |
| 21 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 22 | Levels around Hinckley Point are nearly twice the national average and , between 1969 and 1973 , cases of cancer were four times higher than the national average in people under the age of 25 living in a radius of 12.5km around Hinckley Point . |
| 23 | In Natal , fighting between rival political groups for control of townships around Pietermaritzburg and Durban grew more intense , with more than 100 people being reported killed up to mid-February . |
| 24 | During the eighteenth century superior local cattle known as Teeswaters ( in the north east of England around Darlington ) and Durhams were of good repute for their conformation and milking ability and were being systematically improved by various notable cattlemen . |
| 25 | That paganism itself was not completely extinct is indicated by the tract known as The Law of the Northumbrian Priests , probably compiled in Cnut 's reign , which forbids heathen practices , witchcraft , idol worship , and the existence of sanctuaries around stones , trees and wells . |
| 26 | But it 's the riot squads that follow up to make the arrests and today , on the fields of battle around Orgreave , the police were involved in some of the most vicious hand-to-hand fighting of the entire miners ' dispute . |
| 27 | The prevention of the formation of scum around baths , sinks and kitchen surfaces means that cleaning is faster , requires less cleaning agents , and is more hygienic . |
| 28 | More workers were twining vines of ivy around pillars newly painted orange , while an elderly woman was strewing the floor with French chalk so that the dancing shoes would not slip on the polished parquet . |
| 29 | From here you can see clearly the frieze of mountains around Lake Titicaca rising steeply from the water and the spits of land which thrust themselves towards Amantani . |
| 30 | This is the cause of botulism , which is implicated in the recent downturn of several large breeding populations of gulls around Britain . |