Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requires small businesses , many of which do not provide insurance , to join one of 11 huge regional bargaining pools around the state . |
| 2 | ‘ Wedgwood and Johnson Brothers are two immensely strong brand names around the world and Coalport and Mason 's Ironstone are also very valuable assets . ’ |
| 3 | She hung old cotton sheets around her Sunday dress , her pleated terylene skirt . |
| 4 | A series of Marine Nature Reserves around the coast , highlighting and protecting areas of highest interest , would be a marvellous flagship for a wider based marine conservation programme for the UK . |
| 5 | Investing in many different bond markets around the world increases the investment potential because when one market is going down another may be on the way up . |
| 6 | Disabled drivers with orange badges are to be provided with free parking spaces around the traffic-free area in Abbot 's Yard car park , Horsemarket , Houndgate and Raby Terrace . |
| 7 | The company , building massively parallel scientific Unix machines around the Intel Corp 80860 RISC , will suspend development and most direct sales of new computer systems , while continuing to provide service and sales of systems and expansion products to its installed customer base of some 600 worldwide . |
| 8 | If you 've taken down a door leading from hall to living room , or kitchen to dining room , you may be lucky and be left with interesting architrave mouldings around doorways , but if they 're plain modern ones , you 'll probably rip them out with the door . |
| 9 | In fact , there were electronic publishing systems around long before the Macintosh ever appeared and the first ‘ desktop publishing ’ package , at least in the terms we understand today , was DO-IT by Studio Software which ran on the PC . |
| 10 | The steep limestone cliffs around Torbay have become a focus for some of the hardest climbs in the book , including the awesome Caveman on Berry Head , and the steeply impending Free The Sprit , in Anstey 's Cove . |
| 11 | CACI are able to provide simple summary reports on standard catchment areas around each centre , giving local statistics on population , housing and other key demographic indicators . |
| 12 | While visiting the local volcano , Serena is profoundly upset by the sight of hardened lava fields around a bubbling centre , and this causes her to have a nervous breakdown . |
| 13 | Pride and Prejudice seems to be full of conversations or references to them and this reveals the character of the speaker but usually the entire dialogue centres around one particular person mainly called Mr. Darcy . |
| 14 | A filling knife : Lots of simple repair jobs around the house involve the use of filler of one kind or another — patching cracks in plasterwork , filling holes and defects in wood , replacing old putty in window frames and so on . |
| 15 | Many live in the squalid shanty towns around San Salvador , far from their work : |
| 16 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |
| 17 | For solar flares , a system of early warning satellites around the Sun could detect the first sign of trouble . |
| 18 | The position will be a little clearer after the first of the two individual time trials around Luxembourg on Monday 13 July . |
| 19 | There 's n I doubt if there are any tenants who are n't aware of their right to buy and there 's there are in fact plenty of private mortgage lenders around ready to sort erm try and persuade tenants that they can go ahead and buy their homes . |
| 20 | Stainless steel worktops , etc : The classic routine centres around the use of hot detergent solution , often called the ‘ soap and water ’ method , in which all six stages are recognisable . |
| 21 | After this lesson you should have known the five shapes plus the five associated chord shapes around which the scale fingerings lie . |
| 22 | Amelioration occurs in some groups , but most organic change centres around a ‘ set of basic designs ’ then reflecting a saga of accumulating excellence . |
| 23 | An investigation into the use and effects of synthetic gill nets around the coast of England and Wales is being undertaken by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 24 | Signe drove the old VW carefully — she was a good driver — and insisted upon taking me the prettiest way to Inkeroinen , which meant through the little side roads around Kouvola . |
| 25 | The contaminated sediment , containing the highest degree of pollution found in widespread sediment tests around Shetland , is not far from one of the most important herring spawning grounds for the North Sea . |
| 26 | No explanation was given , least of all to the thousands of workers living in converted railway wagons around the site . |
| 27 | The desk studies are augmented by a regular programme of seminars and trade missions which OSO organises to keep the capability of UK industry in focus in leading oil centres around the world . |
| 28 | Last year the YNTT attracted over 10,000 school-children to participate in a drama exploring Victorian attitudes to environmental issues at nine National Trust houses around the country . |
| 29 | There are now nearly 200 National Trust shops around the country , and the town shops , which are open all year round , are taking on a new look . |
| 30 | ‘ I was going to have an early night but I wo n't bother if you 're going to come in pissed and play your Little Feat LPs around midnight . ’ |