Example sentences of "on [conj] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain the ‘ Beltane ’ fires , supposedly named in honour of the sun god Baal , were recorded in the Celtic fringe of Scotland and Wales and were lit earlier , on or around Walpurgis Night , or on May Day . |
| 2 | The American researchers find that planners can improve the noise reduction of an earth mound ( around 15 decibels ) by up to 5 decibels by planting trees on or around it . |
| 3 | There is a category of exempted minor works such as the erection of fences or walls on or around property , provided they do not exceed two metres generally or one metre adjoining a highway . |
| 4 | John Strype , the eighteenth-century antiquarian , gives an account of the care given to the corpse of Henry VIII immediately after his death at Westminster on or around midnight on 28 January 1547 . |
| 5 | He went to the top of the steps and looked around , he could n't see anyone or anything untoward ; he looked out of the window and he thought he saw a figure on or around the track . |
| 6 | During the period 1969–79 there were , according to the Department of Energy , 106 fatalities on or around installations in the British sector of the North Sea . |
| 7 | Our second bureau is based on or around a traditional typesetting service where they have seen customers moving to in-house production using desktop publishing and want to continue to service the high quality end of the market . |
| 8 | A stronger possibility was that Lorton had left something which incriminated Dougal on or around the body , and was relying on the next passer-by to report the corpse to the police . |
| 9 | On or around them the chief bookshops are to be found . |
| 10 | On or around April 15 , Iranian forces moved from their base on Abu Musa island to take control of its school , police station and desalination plant . |
| 11 | Most of Gould 's collecting in Van Diemen 's Land , however , was done within 80 miles of Hobart , on or around the Derwent River and the fertile Macquairie Plains , where kingfishers , water crakes and crow-shrikes , golden plovers and white-fronted herons , bitterns and black-backed porphyrios were to be found in glorious profusion . |
| 12 | THIS MORNING at 7am , 1,250 pairs of arms will churn the warm blue water of the Pacific into foam as the competitors set off on the first , swimming stage of the 11th Ironman Triathlon on and around the little resort of Kailua-Kona here . |
| 13 | His division , having seen a great deal of dogged fighting on and around Ruweisat before the Alamein offensive , had been lightly engaged in the great action itself , though of course , their guns took part in the famous opening barrage . |
| 14 | Some twenty years ago I wrote a guidebook to the walks on and around the three peaks of Ingleborough , Penyghent and Whernside in Upper Ribblesdale , supplementing the text with over two hundred pen-and-ink drawings . |
| 15 | MANY PLACES OF INTEREST on and around the Three Peaks can only be reached on foot after many miles of walking over rough ground , but visitors to Leck Fell are favoured by a quiet moorland road that takes them to their objective precisely and , if they travel by car , without effort . |
| 16 | He found a very strong field on and around the stone , much greater than background levels . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , I do , ’ said Jack firmly , ‘ with a little touch of luck on and around the greens . |
| 18 | The following information on facilities on and around the campus may be of interest to delegates . |
| 19 | In the study of football fans we have access to the manifestations of action on and around the ground and even a permanent record of some of this action in the form of video and audio recordings . |
| 20 | PRE-FORMED SHAPE Use a long spirit level on and around the pool to mark an outline of the outer edge on the ground , cutting through any turf with a knife |
| 21 | Dismembered androids , some still twitching , lay in oily puddles on and around the speeder . |
| 22 | The male , as it reaches maturity develops stag-like antlers on and around the front of the head . |
| 23 | The winning American margin — 11½–4½ — was chiefly the result of finesse on and around the greens . |
| 24 | A ban on locos was immediately effected but Sunday 13 October saw a 31 working car engineer 's train on and around the bridge . |
| 25 | Police belive he 's the so-called Fishermead rapist , who 's carried out a series of attacks on and around the Fishermead Estate . |
| 26 | Now the man who once had to supplement a lean living as an artist with part-time work is being paid to draw life on and around the River Tees . |
| 27 | Yeah ? for life insurance , savings er any , any erm investment product we have to offer or based on and around that because they 're all open probes and you 're gaining his thoughts and feelings . |
| 28 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |