Example sentences of "[noun sg] was built around " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 2 | With the eventual departure of Nik Powell , the inner core was built around Branson , Draper and Berry — a triumvirate whose similarity in medium-length haircuts , corduroy trousers and comfortable sweaters could , on occasion , make them look almost like brothers . |
| 3 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
| 4 | The political environment in which Western academic studies of the Soviet Union have had to operate for most of the post-war period was built around several widely share assumptions ; that the USSR was a ‘ threat ’ , that socialism was a failure , that the Soviet state was incapable of rational modernisation . |
| 5 | The Unionist recovery was built around Law 's leadership , but what Asquith called the " new style " of obstruction , threats and offensive behaviour did not originate with Law . |
| 6 | Alum pot itself could not fail to be noticed by the first settlers in the district , its yawning gulf constituting an obvious danger to both man and beast ; in the course of time , a wall was built around it and trees planted to indicate its position . |
| 7 | A 9″ concrete base was laid and after the conservatory was installed by contractors , a double-thickness ( 6″ ) brick wall was built around the edges of the pond , to a height of 2′ 6″ above ground , following the shape of the conservatory . |
| 8 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
| 9 | The project was built around interviews , conducted and recorded by the pupils , with a number of people who had lived through the war in Dudley . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |