Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | at least not fully in command of ourselves , let alone the social and political world around us . |
| 2 | Ernest Corrado , president of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping , claimed that the tighter embargo on shipping was " insane " and that Bush was interfering with trade and inviting retaliation around the world . |
| 3 | German defeat and the arrangements at Versailles revealed just how complex the political , social and economic balance around Danzig had become . |
| 4 | Leaking oil and spilled water around the wellhead percolates through to the groundwater , carrying pollutants . |
| 5 | There is always a risk that it will become involved in a road accident , and persistent soiling around the house will damage the furnishings . |
| 6 | Her hair was newly brushed and hanging loose around her shoulders . |
| 7 | Iris was a familiar and friendly face around PAS and is sadly missed . |
| 8 | In the third and fourth years courses in Palaeoecology , Palaeoeconomy , Quaternary Environmental History and Culture and Environment provide a practical and theoretical core around which students may build particular specialist interests in archaeology and the environmental sciences . |
| 9 | Since she left Downing Street , Lady T has sensibly turned her attention elsewhere and built herself a new and interesting life around the globe . |
| 10 | Concealed drip rails and careful sealing around body panels combine with other details such as an underbody deflector to smooth airflow in the area of the rear suspension , fuel tank and spare wheel to produce a Cd of 0.32 or 0.33 depending on model . |
| 11 | While Castells ' early work has usually been criticized for the absence of agency and consequent essentially functionalist explanation , this absence of connection between base and consciousness — an implicit dismissal of the notion that social being determines consciousness — is also a licence for action explanations in a Weberian tradition which completely sever the connection between the production system and social action around reproduction . |
| 12 | How , for example , do various forms of racism , ethnocentrism and nationalism interact with discourses of gender , sexuality , class and generation to produce different stereotypes and practices in official policy programmes and popular culture around ‘ the Asian woman ’ or ‘ black youth ’ ? |
| 13 | Noteworthy design features of the Swearingen SJ30 include a tiny , highly swept wing with powerful high-lift devices , small-diameter cabin and marked area-ruling around the engines , giving a max cruise of 0.77 Mach despite its low power — its Williams/R-R fanjets have little more than half the thrust of a Lear 31A 's engines . |
| 14 | Infrared sources include cool dust clouds and warm dust around young stars in our Galaxy , nearby galaxies , and quasars . |
| 15 | There are seven miles of splendid coastline , quiet parks and picturesque countryside around the area . |
| 16 | Along the hedge that backs onto the lane is a magnificently full border , where pink , mauve and white phlox jostle for attention along with the steely blue heads of Echinops ritro , while annual lavateras in pink and white run around the edges . |
| 17 | In his book Catharsis in Healing , Ritual , and Drama much of previous psychological and anthropological thinking around the issue is incorporated . |
| 18 | Roundabouts would have firm handrails and soft ground around them . |
| 19 | Behind this gradual shift of emphasis lay the re-emergence of a broad and powerful alliance around the issue of national health . |
| 20 | The race was run on a fast and flat course around an old airfield , now used as a showground . |
| 21 | I had to retrace my steps and double back around areas that proved too soft only to find that everywhere else was as bad . |
| 22 | The wild and beautiful landscape around Culbone rises with dramatic suddenness from the Bristol Channel coast near Porlock Weir . |
| 23 | The glen was an obvious subject for a canal that would obviate the necessity for small vessels to make the long and hazardous voyage around Cape Wrath and the northern coast , and in 1803 Thomas Telford was commissioned to construct a waterway to link the three lochs and connect with Loch Linnhe and the Moray Firth , thus giving a continuous water surface from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 24 | The proposals for an Edinburgh City Bypass have been approved as part of the Regional Council 's Transport Policy , the intention being to provide a rapid and safe route around the city for traffic whose origin and destination lies outwith the City Boundary . |
| 25 | ( If , as on the Earth , there are outer ‘ shells ’ of oceans and atmosphere then tides will appear in these too and they will generally be greater than in the rest of the planet thus producing variations in oceanic and atmospheric thickness around the planet . ) |
| 26 | It is present in this waist-skimming button through sun top which has a square neckline , broad shoulder straps and flattering shaping around the bust . |
| 27 | One reason for this proposal is that , when people read aloud , they make errors which are caused by the preceding and following semantic and syntactic context around the incorrectly read word . |
| 28 | Shropshire Valley and open moorland around the Long Mynd |
| 29 | I 'd have to say that Deuce was the most aggressive and distorted band around Washington , and that 's always been one of my attitudes : to be the most aggressive , no-holds-barred type of player that I can possibly be . ’ |
| 30 | The junta that overthrew the old Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 brutally eliminated the tiny , rich and greedy elite around him . |