Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [vb pp] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work in the school this term is centred around the theme of the ‘ Natural World ’ and ‘ Living Things ’ . |
| 2 | The discussion in this chapter is organized around the central question ‘ Who does what for whom ? ’ . |
| 3 | It looked awkward , but not heavy , unless you take into account the fact that this linoleum was rolled around a fifty pound salmon . |
| 4 | Another group was clustered around one human , who was looking very worried . |
| 5 | Turning to the private letters , diaries and pornography of aristocrats and professional men we can see how their sexual desire was structured around notions of private debauchery , lust and licentiousness . |
| 6 | For obvious reasons , this topic is studied around Christmastime . |
| 7 | This feeling is based around many issues : |
| 8 | post-industrial society is organized around knowledge , for the purpose of social control and the directing of innovation and change ; and this in turn gives rise to new social relationships and new structures ’ ( 1973 , p. 20 ) . |
| 9 | Sometimes tentacles of a different form are found around the perimeter of the disc . |
| 10 | An English Requiem is centred around one of the finest works to have been written in the past ten years . |
| 11 | The Light Rifle is based around the same theory of operation as a lightpen , it 's just much bigger and is designed to be held up to about 10′ from the TV set rather than in contact with the screen . |
| 12 | Longacre ( 1979 ) claims that ‘ in narrative discourse , a narrative paragraph is built around a thematic participant , occasionally a small set of thematic participants ’ ( Longacre , 1979 : 118 ) . |
| 13 | In A Sense Of Occasion , pages 118–124 , a sumptuous spread is planned around everyday ingredients cleverly transformed into something really quite special . |
| 14 | He said the hospice movement in this country is envied around the world for its success in alleviating the pain of terminally-ill patients . |
| 15 | The English language is structured around its verbs . |
| 16 | He argued that , in each of Robbe-Grillet 's first three novels , the narrative discourse is focalized around the consciousness of the central protagonist , so the recurrent objects ( the rubber in Les Gommes , the cord in Le Voyeur , the centipede in La Jalousie ) connote some sexual or criminal obsession and the presence of an interiority . |
| 17 | This impetus was centred around an urban renewal policy that — along with explicitly segregationist policies in federal public housing — cut off minority communities , displaced large sections of these communities and concentrated them between expressways , office complexes , stadiums and civic centers . |
| 18 | We know at Wharram Percy in Yorkshire , for example , that the medieval village was fitted into a prehistoric and Roman field system ( Fig.30 ) , and at Hound Tor on Dartmoor the medieval hamlet was built around a Bronze Age settlement and its fields ( Fig. 47 ) . |
| 19 | Immediately post-operatively his temperature fell to 35.8 C. Warmed blood was transfused to counteract shock and an extra blanket was placed around him . |
| 20 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 21 | The second area is located around the development of information systems involving considerations such as meaningfulness , accuracy and accessibility of data . |
| 22 | Williams and Shoultz ( 1982 ) set out their view of some of the processes at work in self advocacy , and the following account is built around their observations . |
| 23 | Our entire culture is built around those loyalties . |
| 24 | A fine white wine was produced around Niort , St Jean d'Angely and La Rochelle and then shipped overseas from La Rochelle . |
| 25 | Sometimes moxibustion is used alongside acupuncture : a ball of dried herb is placed around the shaft of the needle . |
| 26 | At present the Vienna , Virginia-based company is ranked around number seven in the league table of software companies , having seen revenues of $426.7m in 1992 . |
| 27 | It may simply be the result of little domestic refuse being left around the farm ; cereals may not have been processed there , or , if they were , not in a place likely to have resulted in their being burnt and therefore preserved . |
| 28 | Eric spat and choked down the line , and there followed the noise of the phone-box handset being smashed around the inside of the booth . |
| 29 | Most of the resultant industry was concentrated around the new town of Middlesbrough , but in 1864 the Middleston Iron Company was founded . |
| 30 | The traditional village was centred around the church with its white walls and red or grey stonework . |