Example sentences of "of [noun] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 2 | As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone . |
| 3 | They allow leading firms continuously to adjust to the collapse of the timescales for the diffusion of products around the world ; people all over the world are increasingly aware of what others are buying . |
| 4 | Here , we encounter the same pattern which so clearly distinguishes man from the apes — notable absence of canine-tooth dimorphism , prominent displays of hair around the face and neck of the male and , in the female , a secondary sexual display on the chest . |
| 5 | Not long ago a performer in Paris won some notoriety for employing her vagina to swallow , and then powerfully eject , table tennis balls and the history of the seamier side of nightlife around the world is littered with accounts of vaginas that have played harmonicas or smoked cigarettes . |
| 6 | Beyond that , however , there are clearly certain factors which have acted to throw a kind of cloak of invisibility around the semantic contribution made by syntactic constructions . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if there were more than three spatial dimensions , the orbits of planets around the sun or electrons around a nucleus would be unstable and they would tend to spiral inward . |
| 8 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 9 | DameJanet ( Vaughan ) used to tell us about flying the flag of freedom around the world actually a good message to hear ! ’ |
| 10 | There was a tremendous crescendo of noise around the ground . |
| 11 | made lots of noise around the football table . |
| 12 | On the side which will hold the fixed panel , apply a thick bead of mastic around the inside of the jamb recesses , and up the joint with the jamb . |
| 13 | The leeches look as if they have the faces of the bodies they have burst from , and they are capable of rearing up and attacking with a cluster of teeth around a central sucker . |
| 14 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 15 | The beautiful island of Gigha spread out before us with a cluster of houses around the little bay of Ardminish . |
| 16 | A critical review of literature around the notion of the military-industrial complex and that relevant from development economics will be made to formulate an appropriate theory for the mineral-energy complex . |
| 17 | Consider the following sequence of activities around a reading passage in Roy Kingsbury 's ( 1983 ) Longman First Certificate Coursebook Unit 21 , entitled ‘ Daydreaming : This time tomorrow … ’ . |
| 18 | Here is a sequence of activities around a reading passage from Simon Greenall 's and Michael Swan 's ( 1986 ) Effective Reading Unit 20 , entitled ‘ Save the jungle — save the world ’ . |
| 19 | Greatbatch and Thomson — again to the arm ball — were swept aside in the space of four deliveries , Patel chose once more to live by the sword and this time died by it , and Cairns fell meekly , to the ever-increasing cluster of fielders around the bat . |
| 20 | Top quality mattresses are also hand side-stitched — this will look like rows of dimples around the borders to hold the springs firmly in place at the edges and to strengthen the border . |
| 21 | There are , in fact , infinitely many other families of homoclinic orbits winding any number of times around the z-axis . |
| 22 | While most of the neighbours favoured Spanish-style architecture , and their gardens rioted with purple bougainvillaea and pink oleanders , the sombre , towering hedges of yew around the Lewis house looked distinctly foreign . |
| 23 | Her fingers running through the ruff of fur around the cat 's neck tightened as Jehan spoke , and the cat yowled and it bit playfully at her hand . |
| 24 | He inspected the helmet , with its heavy crest and the circling ruff of fur around the rim ; his blow had cut the ruff and damaged the cheek guard . |
| 25 | Now this overround tends to be larger in fields with a large number of runners , and also tends to be larger in these popular races , so that at times when there 's lots of money around the bookies , of course , and we expect them to do this , are very careful to make sure that the odds are well in their favour , because on these races where there 's lots of money staked their risk is higher . |
| 26 | What we have is an excess of definitions around the feminine whereas men are the undefined norm . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 28 | It has been able to anticipate requirements of operators around the world . |
| 29 | While senior members of the party and government hold a series of meetings around the city , the Stefan the Great Movement for National Revival is holding what it calls a ‘ great gathering ’ in the main stadium . |
| 30 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |