Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , during the last few decades a further , more marked , decrease occurred from values around pH 6 to the present-day values of about pH 4.5 ( figure 4.8 ) . |
| 2 | We are a group of lesbian feminists ( about 30 + years old ) , who meet regularly to talk about issues around sex , eg : desires and politics in connexion with sex . |
| 3 | The road to it is initially charming , passing through parklands around Shieldaig Bay and then continuing to the picturesque settlement of Badachro . |
| 4 | Nothing is known about the location and extent of the associated estate ; it could have been connected with stone-quarrying around Bath , which was being extracted and used for tombstones at Colchester before the Boudiccan revolt . |
| 5 | Similarly , other experts say that the peak in testosterone which happens in women around mid-cycle when they are ovulating — and the very time they are likely to get pregnant — is very slight and unlikely to result in your pursuing your mate with greater passion . |
| 6 | It winters in Africa south of the Sahara and arrives in Britain around mid-April . |
| 7 | The lobby was tiled in blue and gave access to a stairway leading to a mezzanine built in U-formation around Studio ‘ A ’ . |
| 8 | His puppets have been shown in venues around Europe and tickets are on sale now at Community Centre reception for all activities . |
| 9 | ‘ I shall return to work around February 1 , ’ said the consultant . |
| 10 | BOXING / Swift fits in boxing around work while Richardson quits job in his bid for gold medal Boxing MIDDLESBROUGH light-welterweight Peter Richardson is quitting his job for four months to concentrate on his bid for an Olympic medal . |
| 11 | Daily events were arranged in cities around America and each day was given a theme . |
| 12 | The shape and character of ethnic cultural formations is too complex to be reduced to formulas around festivals , religions , world-views and lifestyles . |
| 13 | If you find stately homes and country houses fascinating , you 'll be spoilt for choice around Brighton & Hove . |
| 14 | Onward travel is via Belgium and Germany to arrive in Zakopane around lunch time the following day . |
| 15 | There had been snow in the Store , too , sprayed on merchandise around Christmas Fayre time . |
| 16 | Spinner dolphins are frequently taken in set-nets around Sri Lanka , where about 17,000 are estimated to be incidentally caught each year . |
| 17 | As thousands of new telephone directories are delivered to homes around Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire , the old ones are being collected at recycling points in the town . |
| 18 | They met at flats around London , avoiding Diana 's apartments at Kensington Palace or the lawyers ' offices in Gray 's Inn . |
| 19 | Heat is also lost through gaps around windows , so use adhesive foam strips , top and bottom , and nylon brush strips on the sides . |
| 20 | Most of the land round the village belonged to Sir Benson Craig , the new owner of Enderley , whose great deer-park extended for miles around Granny Fordham 's cottage . |
| 21 | But this summer a series of exhibitions is planned in villages around Richmond , where Louisa was also active . |
| 22 | According to security sources , she is likely to return to London around January 6 , well before her sons are due to return to their boarding school at Ludgrove , Berks . |
| 23 | Such men of enterprise and initiative as Lord Stevens and the publisher Lord Weidenfeld stood in huddles around television sets . |
| 24 | Leapor 's poetry and plays circulated in manuscript around Brackley . |
| 25 | It seems that Leapor 's writings later circulated in manuscript around Brackley , though not exclusively among women . |
| 26 | At least nine other Sharpeville Day rallies were held in townships around Johannesburg , some organised by the ANC and others by the rival Zulu-oriented Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 27 | Police are warning motorists not to travel on roads around Silverstone this evening where there are already eight mile tail backs as spectators arrive for the British Grand Prix . |