Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extensive 40cm thick bed of syn-diagenetic origin has been worked in Cambrian pelites around the Harlech Dome ( Bennett , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | The seal wanted to race south and burn off all her blubber , but she knew the penguin was scared , so she swam in lazy circles around the ice raft , singing and talking and giving the penguin names for all the new birds they saw , birds too canny to fly as far north as the Pole for fear of freezing . |
| 3 | It operates in thirty-seven countries around the world and in 1988 celebrated ninety years in the recorded music business . |
| 4 | They appear to have acquired mining rights from Muncaster in that area around Tilberthwaite . |
| 5 | Once the first point has been identified the remaining points are entered in clockwise order around the zone boundary . |
| 6 | In mid-December the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE , or the Tamil Tigers — the main Tamil insurgent group ) had routed the pro-IPKF Tamil National Army ( TNA ) in bloody fighting around the eastern port of Batticaloa [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 7 | The only other downside I noticed was that the car tended to be a little ponderous in lower gears around town . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Flints containing sponges may be incorporated into younger sediments ( they are then known as derived fossils ) , and it is not unusual for such flints to be dug up in suburban gardens around London — a long journey from the Cretaceous seas . |
| 10 | LASMO is the operator of exploration and development projects in 12 countries around the world . |
| 11 | For residents in 12 parishes around Darlington the charge will be a couple of pounds higher . |
| 12 | Discuss whether the planet is in synchronous rotation around the Sun . |
| 13 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 14 | Moreover , if the Moon was already in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and if there was more spare material between the Earth and the Moon than beyond the Moon , then the rather greater number of large basins on the near side than on the far side can be explained . |
| 15 | This was sufficiently close to the sidereal orbital period of 87.97 days for it to be generally concluded that Mercury was in synchronous rotation around the Sun , and therefore that the sidereal axial period was also 87.97 days . |
| 16 | Your covenant means we help children in 53 countries around the globe . |
| 17 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 18 | In another case around this time we can see how different newspapers use familiar but different tags to identify a particular ‘ sex beast ’ . |
| 19 | The National Association of Schoolmasters ( NAS ) concentrated upon attacking the comprehensive school system and importantly , was involved in public campaigns around the level of violence in schools ( Taylor op. cit . ) . |
| 20 | Position smaller leaves at three and six o'clock , then continue in this way around the clockface until you have made a bed of leaves . |
| 21 | The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme . |
| 22 | For example we can compare the frames of satellites in free fall around different stars . |
| 23 | Crows acrobated above a dead elm tree , ‘ The crow will tumble up and down/ at first sign of spring/ and in old trees around the town/brush winter from its wing . ’ |
| 24 | Coming as they did in organised groups around strong personal leaders , the Saxons tended to name their settlements with a combination of local place features and , more importantly , a worthy 's name . |
| 25 | However , some press reports alleged that the Ethiopian government was demanding weapons and fuel from Israel in return for the departure of 16,000 Ethiopian Jews currently living in squalid camps around the Israeli embassy in Addis Ababa . |
| 26 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 27 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 28 | There is ample evidence to support this in Price Waterhouse 's latest International Information Technology Review which tracks investment intentions in 10 countries around the world . |
| 29 | Rather more recently , plains of windblown shelly sand have formed extensively along the west coasts of North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist and in localised bays around Harris and Lewis . |
| 30 | Even so , in countless places around Europe , people behave and think in ways which are totally distinctive . |