Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 250 on the clock I heave the how-heavy stick to the right and when we have twenty degrees of bank I brace , pull and reverse the roll to watch our nose carve a lazy anti-clockwise circle around the sapphire sky . |
| 2 | Higher up the col , almost indeed on the very top , there is the mouth to another gouffre , with a frail wooden fence around it , into which you can with difficulty peer . |
| 3 | The nearby open-field country around Saffron Walden in Essex was comparable , though the absence of extremes of wealth made peasant husbandmen the most conspicuous group . |
| 4 | The old walled town around the castle has become the CBD with shops , banks and offices . |
| 5 | During September Herr Ferstl , the owner offers a weekly guided ramble around Fuschl . |
| 6 | Early tea packets were constructed of grey or brown greaseproof paper around a waxy paper lining , with different coloured seals denoting the different blends , one of which was Red Label [ Sainsbury 's longest established own brand product ] . |
| 7 | Even so , an exciting timed race around the challenging assault course on the hill produced some impressive performances . |
| 8 | As he rang off after this unexpected statement , Jenna felt again the old familiar tightening around her heart , the trapped feeling , and the memory of Alain 's arms came surging back into her mind . |
| 9 | Walsall Museum and Art Gallery has developed an energetic and lively educational programme around the collection , encouraging primary school teachers to use it as a teaching aid for the national curriculum , starting up a printmaking course inspired by the works in the collection and offering prizes for the best short description of one of the works . |
| 10 | England of the Nissen hut , the ‘ pre-fab ’ , and the electric fence , of the high barbed wire around some unmentionable devilment ; England of the arterial by-pass , treeless and stinking of diesel oil , murderous with lorries ; England of the bombing-range wherever there was once silence , as on Otmoor or the marshlands of Lincolnshire ; England of battle-training areas on the Breckland heaths , and tanks crashing through empty ruined Wiltshire villages ; England of high explosive falling upon the prehistoric monuments of Dartmoor . |
| 11 | While these approaches may have a grain of truth in them , they founder in the evidence of women 's actual political activity around their own demands . |
| 12 | This may be a piece of work offering straightforward short-term helping around obtaining a service . |
| 13 | There is also a fairly large picture with a dark brown mount around which has been drawn three gold lines , enclosing a spray design , and a small square picture with a brown handmade paper as a backing , which is one of my favourites . |
| 14 | What , what , what I would say is this , there always , there always talking about anti social behaviour around the town and as I say if people have n't got the necessary coin , it could lead to anti social behaviour , it 's as simple as that . |
| 15 | In May , South Africa , concerned at the proliferation of the Japanese drift-net fleet around the edges of its 200-mile EEZ , banned the use and possession of drift-nets in its EEZ . |
| 16 | HAVING vague recollection from reading accounts of English milords on the Grand Tour in the 18th century that there was a nourishing fake industry around the Mediterranean , I was intrigued to learn from Oxford 's Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art that it is still going . |
| 17 | All too often the loving relationships turn bitter , the easy relaxed atmosphere around the subject of clothes becomes one of anger and outrage . |
| 18 | ‘ Anything unclaimed left lying around the club or in the porters ’ cubbyhole . |
| 19 | Number two requires 12 hits and follows a simple oval pattern around the screen . |
| 20 | To kick-off , we 've got an official Happy Hour around the 8.30 p.m. mark — well before sundown . |
| 21 | By the turn of the century , the central industrial area around Moscow , the north-western area around St Petersburg , the major cities of Poland , and the Ukraine employed over 60 per cent of all workers . |
| 22 | HE WAS NOT ALLOWED to go to school again until Thursday morning , by which time the missing button had been replaced on the collar of his shirt and he was wearing a pair of smart new shoes of polished black leather and knee-length grey socks with a dark red band around their tops . |
| 23 | She laid her cup on the table , and leaned back in her chair , her statuesque pose accentuated by the classic fawn dress and the dark green scarf around her throat . |
| 24 | NEC Corp is forecasting unconsolidated net profit of $430m in the fiscal year just started , up from an estimated $344m for the fiscal 1993 just ended ; the company sees strong demand for semiconductors in the US and Southeast Asia , and looks to launch of new personal computers , and domestic economic recovery around this summer following the government 's economic package , including the expected supplementary budget , NEC said . |
| 25 | He came round to find a hostile Maltese crowd around him , but when he made it clear that he was English the mood changed . |
| 26 | You fitted more snugly into society , especially , the tight little society around the Consul-General , if you were married and could take your wife along to dinner-parties with you , instead of forever having to be fixed up with a stray aunt or somebody . |
| 27 | What we did : Hair was razor cut to lighten the texture and add lift with a soft wispy effect around the face . |
| 28 | Some sponges produce a soft flexible substance around their cells which supports the whole organism . |
| 29 | First wind white binding tape around all bare frame wires . |
| 30 | The program takes you on a drive with Noddy in his little yellow car around ToyTown , visiting friends , interacting with them and occasionally tooting your horn . |