Example sentences of "[art] [noun] around a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the folds of the skin around a baby 's eyes sometimes make her look cross-eyed when she is n't . |
| 2 | What emerged , aside from the technology , which has been widely previewed ( summary inside ) , was a seminal move by USL president Roel Pieper to unify the industry around a desktop Unix to challenge Microsoft Corp NT — threatening to sweep the boards when it finally arrives . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 4 | At the simplest level , the forest around a village is being gently ‘ harvested ’ — there is a scheme for gathering seeds of shrubs and climbers , for export to the garden-centre pot-plant nurseries of the US , but that is just a start . |
| 5 | The tows then form the tube around a bullet or mandrel in the heated die , and the result is a tube of greater strength than the equivalent in steel ! |
| 6 | Maybe they would be so kind as to turn the lights around a touch and have them facing us here in Naylorsfield . |
| 7 | Although much of the area around a pool at this time may be exposed rock , the gobies never land on it . |
| 8 | But Mr Waller 's case and many others — some featured on the right — also opens the debate around a citizen 's right to take the law into their own hands . |
| 9 | Drop the arch-top , jiggle the controls around a bit — oh , and do n't forget to lose the pointy headstock — and what have you got ? |
| 10 | At the end of straight lengths , there will either be a stop end , an elbow ( to take the gutter around a corner ) or a stop end outlet to connect to the downpipe . |
| 11 | It is not only the breeding pair that occupies the territory around a nest . |
| 12 | For example E de F ( Electricité de France ) offered large advance tax payments to the municipalities around a site . |
| 13 | From the seamless opening shot — which lasts eight minutes and has no cuts — the themes and characters of The Player are laid before us with masterful skills as Altman glides and circles the camera around a studio car park , catching snatches of information and fragments of conversation ( a film is being pitched with the description ‘ Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate ’ . |
| 14 | Following the path around a bush , we halted |
| 15 | The woman stirred the onions around a bit with a long black fork and then settled the large frying pan more firmly on top of the blazing logs . |
| 16 | Gunpowder Treason Day normally concluded in the evening with more informal festivities in the streets around a bonfire to celebrate the deliverance from popery . |
| 17 | There were probably machines that could have lowered and pulled up the basket easily , but he 'd preferred to loop the wire around a pillar inside the Ship and , with Pion helping inside , to pull themselves up and down by sheer nomish effort . |
| 18 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 19 | So large , that when plans to flood their lowland were first announced , the Rut landers protested , ‘ But we do not wish our county to be just a towpath around a lake ! ’ |
| 20 | Building a seat around a tree . |
| 21 | The reasons for structuring a deal around an earnout may be summarised as follows : |
| 22 | Any body can be thought of as consisting of lots of small masses m , and the angular momentum of such a body around a point P is obtained by combining the products mrs according to certain rules which I shall not describe . |
| 23 | Four ‘ sheltered ’ homes , twelve family units and four staff houses are to be built on a site around a farm growing fruit and vegetables , with a factory to process the produce . |
| 24 | For a high-tea or supper meal spread smoked haddock paste on fingers of hot toast and arrange them in a circle around a dish of scrambled eggs . |
| 25 | The grass of the lawn is green in a circle around a sprinkler ( not turned on ) and in a smaller patch around a longstanding leak in the hose ; the rest is brown grass or bare , cracked earth . |
| 26 | On a square or round table they can be arranged in a circle around a group of tall candles or a bowl of fruit . |
| 27 | In front of the building is a row of white-painted stones and some cactus-like sisal plants forming a circle around a patch of grass . |
| 28 | ‘ Football to me , ’ I said , ‘ is about 22 fit men kicking a ball around a park , not about pot-bellied Freemasons passing the sherry decanter around a centrally heated Portakabin . ’ |
| 29 | Zahid ( 3.11 ) was playing in the sand pit in the playground , one of a group of four children , with a teacher , engaged in digging a trench around a log . |
| 30 | In Southport recently we had planned a 3Oft ( 9m ) Portakabin to serve as part of a wall around a car park . |