Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dahl , 1954 , 1955 , 1987 ) ; however , the glacial survival of amphi-atlantic species such as Potamogeton epihydrus or Najas exilis ( as suggested by Harrison , 1948b ) or bryophytes such as Myurium hochstetteri , Leptodontium recurvifolium , or Campylopus shawii seems unlikely in view of reconstructed July mean temperatures during the last glacial maximum on St Kilda of 4°C and mean sea-surface temperatures around Rockall of 0–2°C ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Tass still reported heavy fighting around Bagram on March 8 . |
| 3 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
| 4 | The United Nations has reported intense fighting around Srebrenica , the Moslem enclave it is trying to protect . |
| 5 | The results presented in this paper with synthetic DNA fragments reveal clear footprints around GpC and GpT sites as well as at GpA in T(AT) 8 CG(AT) 15 . |
| 6 | Financial Times 5 September Algal blooms are causing serious problems around Italy 's coast , with damaging effects to its tourist industry . |
| 7 | On the edge of London , Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire showed significant growth around Barnet , and particularly Slough , respectively . |
| 8 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow , starting from Darlington Market Place at 9am . |
| 9 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow . |
| 10 | Bus services are close by , whilst access to the ring road providing fast communications around Oxford is readily available , being just 1 mile distant . |
| 11 | In these outposts of feudalism there is always enough money to put deer- fencing around plantations of alien conifers while the real forests are considered worthless . |
| 12 | Community cop : One of the first duties of Netherton 's new community officer , PC John O'Neill was to guide local children around Copy Lane Police Station . |
| 13 | It seems unlikely that they were the only merchants travelling considerable distances around Britain selling hardware ; nor is it likely that they were unaccompanied by other traders in cloth , leather , wood , fruit and vegetables or other miscellaneous products . |
| 14 | I nailed airtight strips around doors and windows . |
| 15 | To finish the roses , lightly brush green colouring around edge of each petal . |
| 16 | Inverness-shire Circuit giving excellent views around Loch Affric |
| 17 | Other auction houses have chosen to hold periodic sales around Europe outside main selling centres ; however , after studying their results , we have found that , at this time , vendors are best served when their property is included in high-quality specialised sales held in familiar salerooms . |
| 18 | During my week , I play at a number of keep fit classes around Darlington . |
| 19 | In addition , he gave extensive lands around Mauchline and between there and the country 's eastern boundary to the Monks of Melrose Abbey . |
| 20 | So the birds have evolved the habit of flying a couple of hundred kilometres across to Shetland , where they can normally be assured of finding small fish around shorelines which never freeze over . |
| 21 | The students are hoping to arrange their own type of wine run , distributing New Release around Gloucestershire , in the hope that it 'll prove every bit as popular as it 's French rival . |
| 22 | Current business and strategy proposals are far too simplistic , say the authors — IBM must cannibalize its products , migrate user to micros and develop new architectures around PowerPC and Intel chip , porting the software systems and applications that are still competitive to new hardware and operating systems . |
| 23 | Curved walls recirculate warm air around rooms , so heating is much easier and more effective . |
| 24 | If successful the group will have a fleet of four vehicles specially designed to take disabled people around town , people who might otherwise be confined to their homes . |
| 25 | Miss Bellamy gave examples of projects supported by the initiative team such as improvements to grassland areas which could be turned into wildlife areas if managed correctly leaving uncut grass around recreation areas will encourage wild flowers , which will attract insects , birds and small mammals . |
| 26 | First , they practise by planting small bombs around London and keeping the police on the run , then they go for their real goal , breaking into the Tower of London and burying the treasures . |
| 27 | Some companies operating in the consumer field have also seen the value of group luncheons in generating special features around products which are not very exciting and which do not really merit a series of individual lunches . |
| 28 | It reproduced American anxieties around cultures of deprivation and the supposed pathologies of ‘ the black family ’ , stressing the relatively large proportion of ‘ West Indian ’ mothers who undertook paid employment outside the home , the incidence of one-parent families , and the supposed ignorance of ‘ West Indian ’ parents about the need to help their children academically at home ( DES , 1981 , pp. 15ff , 43 ) . |
| 29 | Fear wrapped icy tentacles around Polly 's heart . |