Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
| 2 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
| 3 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
| 4 | ‘ A group of them are concentrated around the gas drums . ’ |
| 5 | This is held in place by four metal lugs which are bent around the opening |
| 6 | Second , in courses which are organised around the expectation that most students are young and well qualified in a traditional sense , older students who have entered through different routes may find it more difficult to succeed than in courses where there is more support , both at an institutional level and from other students with similar backgrounds and experiences . |
| 7 | The empty cans can be left at a number of collection points which are located around the site . |
| 8 | The verandah is long and overgrown with climbing plants , which are wrapped around the varnished poles that support the tin roof . |
| 9 | Zack must find his tools which are scattered around the factory . |
| 10 | The religions which are burgeoning around the world are the ones taking positive , proactive stances . |
| 11 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 12 | The best time to get people to talk about themselves is when you are sitting around the table over a meal or having tea , and when they are relaxed and are not likely to be diverted by other activities . |
| 13 | The more greenskins there are crowded around a shaman the more easily he can cast spells . |
| 14 | They are centred around a flower festival at St John 's from today until Sunday and include two organ recitals by Dr Donald Davison and an exhibition on the history of Malone parish , which will be presented by parishioner Dr Paul Larmour , the writer Take it from me , nobody knows more about the past of that part of Belfast than Paul . |
| 15 | They are centred around the ‘ validation event ’ at which a panel representing industry and education meets with college staff . |
| 16 | They are found around the Mediterranean , particularly for vine growing ; in semi-arid areas such as Yemen and Peru ; and in many localities of the humid tropics where population densities are high such as the Philippines , Java , Sumatra , China , the Himalayan foothills , Rwanda Burundi , Uganda and the Cameroons ( Goudie 1981 : 136 , 127–39 , for a general review of the physical processes of soil erosion and human efforts to control it ) . |
| 17 | They are distributed around the body at , for example , the groin , the armpit and the abdomen , Noyan 's work shows that lymph nodes excised from calves and goats exhibit regular spontaneous movements . |