Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern historians are quite uncertain whether an individual of that name existed here and carried out the exploits attributed to him ; or whether he is a representative figure around whom have accreted the age-old memories of a people 's struggles to maintain inherited liberties in the face of alien subjection . |
| 2 | The Neapolitan Riviera extends in a lazy curve around the Neapolitan coast and its very name evokes images of Italy at its sunniest . |
| 3 | The event horizon , the boundary of the region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape , acts rather like a one-way membrane around the black hole : objects , such as unwary astronauts , can fall through the event horizon into the black hole , but nothing can ever get out of the black hole through the event horizon . |
| 4 | Vi pulled a dry tongue around dry lips . |
| 5 | The result was a broad consensus around the ideals of a strong France , an independent Europe , and a transformed Third World . |
| 6 | We 've got a rota system and that started at four this morning and is now full for the rest of the day , so there will be a strong presence around the building all day long . |
| 7 | The requirement for robustness also demands that there be leg braces to create a strong rectangle around the rear seat joint , the point of maximum strain in all chairs . |
| 8 | There is a strong theme around autonomy and identity , the struggle between being a person knowing who one is , and then being put in a dependent role through some process of infirmity . |
| 9 | Dong put a supportive arm around his brother and pulled him deeper into the crowd . |
| 10 | Cut off a narrow strip around the edge and use to line the dampened rim of the pie plate . |
| 11 | Cork is the bark of the evergreen cork oak , which grows , wild or cultivated , in a narrow belt around the western Mediterranean and nearby Atlantic coasts , mostly in Portugal , quite a lot in Spain , and also in western Italy , Sicily , Sardinia , Corsica and North Africa . |
| 12 | Radiation emitted by the electron is transformed back to the laboratory frame , and is concentrated in to a narrow cone around the forward direction ( c ) , generating a ( Doppler ) frequency upshift ( γ ) . |
| 13 | A more permanent way of taking a web is to use a piece of black cardboard with Copydex thinly smeared in a narrow band around the edges . |
| 14 | The Tertiary basalts dominate the scenery of Antrim , with the Ulster White Limestone forming a narrow outcrop around them ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 15 | Antonio slipped a muscular arm around his wife 's waist . |
| 16 | Powell and his men made a three-hour portage around the left shore . |
| 17 | In the West Midlands , Birmingham 's area of deprivation extends in a boomerang-shaped district around the city from the north west in Handsworth to the east in Small Heath and to the south in Sparkbrook . |
| 18 | Clean bright bubbles form a frilly ruff around my neck . |
| 19 | The original Strasbourg clock probably contained , besides moving figures , an annual-calendar dial , and possibly a lunar dial and an astrolabe , but the instrument designed by Giovanni de' Dondi incorporated a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts , both fixed and movable , and also indicated the celestial motions of the sun , moon , and planets , including even the motions of the nodes of the moon 's orbit , which take over eighteen years to make a complete revolution around the ecliptic . |
| 20 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 21 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 22 | They also provide a stable focus around which the ward organisation revolves . |
| 23 | Beforehand there will be a historical walk around the city , a street theatre show and an ecumenical service . |
| 24 | An electric current creates a magnetic field around the wire through which it flows . |
| 25 | By establishing a magnetic field around a component , fluid that will react to the field is poured over . |
| 26 | Later city rulers , the Austrians , tore down the original front wing of the building to turn a courtyarded palace into a three-winged palace around the piazzetta . |
| 27 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 28 | There was a lively debate around the issue of training which had already started in the workshop in the morning . |
| 29 | Tackle consisted of a wooden frame around which was wrapped light , brown fishing-line , needle-sharp steel hooks , lead ‘ sinkers ’ and a can of worms . |
| 30 | We proposed that arrays of dimeric met repressor molecules bind to these extended operator regions , with a stoichiometry of one repressor per met box , to form a left-handed superhelix around the DNA . |