Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly all sorts of birds were alighting on the branches of the tree around where Little Billy was sitting , and the Minpins were climbing onto their backs in droves . |
| 2 | The dollar series shows steady growth throughout most of the last two decades , with the exception of the periods around the two major stock market declines in 1974/5 and late 1987 . |
| 3 | This left the way open for the consolidation of the independents around a new organization : Common Wealth . |
| 4 | Such observations may help to explain the protracted sense of crisis in the humanities ; but the model also offers the possibility of regrouping the traditional concerns of the humanities around the notion of ‘ being ’ , if that concept can be allowed . |
| 5 | Marion said , glad of the security of the others around her and thus able to sound pretty sharp . |
| 6 | By placing radon gas detectors in homes the scientists are getting a clear picture of the problem around the country . |
| 7 | For as I say , as I motored on in the sunshine towards the Berkshire border , I continued to be surprised by the familiarity of the country around me . |
| 8 | A report on the sand and gravel resources of the country around Strachan and Auchenblae , published during the year , completes a programme of six such surveys of sand and gravel resources undertaken in Grampian Region over the last 15 years . |
| 9 | The publication in 1990 of a report on the sand and gravel resources of the country around Strachan and Auchenblae completes a programme of six such surveys undertaken in the Grampian Region over the last 15 years . |
| 10 | Education about the best use of the resources around them is probably the highest of the long-term priorities in such countries . |
| 11 | He wrote : " All the occurrences of Jurassic formations … amount to little more than relics of marginal lappings of the sea around the edges of the continents ; the sole exception being the Tethys " . |
| 12 | But , although massage alone wo n't work such miracles , in conjunction with a low-fat diet and plenty of exercise , it certainly helps in the battle of the bulge around problem areas such as your hips , thighs and bottom . |
| 13 | In their simplest forms these classifications indicate average grain size , and the degree and form of the spread around that average . |
| 14 | It is not difficult to find among them ample illustrations of Ruskin 's dictum that architecture reflects the life of the society around it . |
| 15 | if he dared to predict , it was on the basis of the evidence around him . |
| 16 | The privileges enjoyed by the bureaucrats of communist regimes have constituted part of the evidence around which the debate about class relations has evolved . |
| 17 | The generating board is proposing that the part of the vessel around the coolant nozzle , where the cooling system joins the vessel , will be cast in separate parts . |
| 18 | The influence of the landscape around Mont-Roig , in southern Catalonia , can be seen in many of the 180 paintings now assembled in Barcelona to mark the centenary of Miro 's birth . |
| 19 | During the reign of Elizabeth I , English seamen such as Drake , Hawkins , Grenville and Raleigh exasperated the Spanish by their expeditions to the Americas , and the Roman Catholic King Philip of Spain also considered Elizabeth I a heretic ; so he despatched a great fleet of galleons , in 1588 , named ‘ The Armada ’ , to sail up the English Channel and transport a Spanish army of invasion from the Netherlands , but the smaller British ships played havoc with the mighty ships during their journey and stormy weather drove the remnants of the Armada around the British Isles , most of the ships being wrecked at various points , including the Atlantic west coast of Ireland . |
| 20 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
| 21 | Records of the gatherings around her and Ivy Compton-Burnett 's ample though moderate table at Braemar Mansions , Kensington , have contributed to the mythology of English literary anecdote . |
| 22 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 23 | Cos the girl in the office went out and bought the lunch today did n't go out come in , phoned James and then started his second half of the day around some girls . |
| 24 | The analysis of a remembered life , after all , or of the life around one , is continuous with living itself : with gossip heard and overheard , with unspoken thoughts , with watching and listening to friends or strangers . |
| 25 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 26 | Bristol Deaf Centre took a very near miss when much of the square around it was reduced to rubble in a heavy air-raid . |
| 27 | It was a little higher than a man , and it ended , rough and unfinished , in the centre of the clearing around the bank of screens . |
| 28 | All the changes reported above indicate a conformational change of the DNA at the borders of the CRP site ( -70 , -80 and -50 ) and suggest a more extensive deformation of the DNA around the CRP-wild-type RNA polymerase complex . |
| 29 | And quite often those events are completely beyond the control of the child himself , or even of the adults around him . |
| 30 | the extent of the concordance around the node ; |