Example sentences of "activity around " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of activity around the orchard as we arrived back at H.Q The sniping had increased and a mortar attack seemed to be under way . |
| 2 | The findings of our research indicate that paraprofessional personnel perform the bulk of face-to-face social service and social development activity around the world . |
| 3 | A survey of FEL activity around the world shows that about 50 projects are under-way and several others are seeking funding . |
| 4 | The increase in carp-scaring activity around the banks has forced the carp to feed at the greatest distance from the activity , and the angler who can cast the furthest , within reason , stands the best chance of success . |
| 5 | Should they necessarily be restricted to electoral variations , or even to activity around state institutions such as local government ? |
| 6 | The political activity around Clause 28 was one of the few occasions when lesbians and gay men have worked together and successfully expressed their anger . |
| 7 | We were supposed to take off for Malta about 12 hours after leaving Gibraltar but , because of bad weather and ( I think ) intelligence reports about enemy activity around Sardinia and Sicily , we retraced our course and eventually took off about 36 hours from Gibraltar . |
| 8 | A tiny radical collective on Manhattan 's Upper West Side got the idea of organising political activity around a profit-making experimental encounter therapy practice . |
| 9 | Two days later the boy 's condition slowly began to stabilise , but the activity around him had increased measurably . |
| 10 | Through the window she could see normal everyday activity around the lock . |
| 11 | ‘ Any activity around the warehouse ? ’ |
| 12 | These one-time costs once met could be leveraged over much more business activity around the globe than we then enjoyed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | From where she stood , the business of the Fish , the activity around the field , the movement of the crowd at the country meeting — dressed in a range from the metropolitan fashionable to a package of rags — made scarcely a blemish on the landscape . |
| 15 | No volume of correspondence similar to Alcuin 's survives to illustrate Charlemagne 's dealings with other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms but the support Charlemagne is known to have given to Offa 's enemies reveals widespread diplomatic activity around the borders of Mercia . |
| 16 | The cervix is sealed off with a mucus plug which looks like a pinkish clot and its appearance is a good sign that there is some activity around the cervix . |
| 17 | But now she felt cocooned in her own private shell of misery , as cut off from the noise and activity around her as if she were frozen in ice . |
| 18 | The swaps are in line with BP 's ongoing policy of growing activity around core producing assets . |
| 19 | The trend continued after the restart with plenty of activity around the centre of the pitch . |
| 20 | The VHP defied a fresh order issued on July 15 by the Allahabad High Court restraining parties from undertaking construction activity around the disputed site . |
| 21 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 22 | He wrote : The big thing in developing the United Front is to agitate and bring the masses into activity around the particular issues and to get organisation ( Committees ) , expressing and representing the actual character of the movement . |
| 23 | Darlington police want to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious activity around the health authority offices at the estimated time of the incident . |
| 24 | It 's not the appointments that matter , it 's the activity around the appointment , the fact that I 'm gon na get up on Monday morning , I 'm gon na go training , and once I 've done that , I 've got to nip down to the library , O K , and look up that electoral role , I 've got an appointment , and then I 'm gon na go back to the office , I 'm gon na to do my mail shots and then I 'm gon na to go home , mow the lawn , have a bit of tea , and then I 'm gon na to my approaching , and then I 'm gon na go , yes , on that appointment there . |
| 25 | B T now are developing a whole set of procedures , well , a whole set of activity around controlling their work which is completely different from the way B T used to work and different from , I suppose , most other bits of the company . |
| 26 | informal activities around the home |
| 27 | Valuable chair fabrics , curtains , cushions and other materials are often found scratched , torn and tattered as a result of the family cat 's claw-sharpening activities around the house . |
| 28 | The leader then proceeds to do a few activities around the table such as hitting it with both hands , scratching an ear , winking an eye or nodding backwards and forwards . |
| 29 | I hope that others , who likewise enjoy the beauty of walking and other self-propelled activities around our lovely countryside , will take a similar stand and buy more British products . |
| 30 | Backed by his men and by the many planetary troopers who were unpolluted and loyal to the governor , he had commenced his activities around a ring of other cities than the capital , moving from one to the next , destroying . |