Example sentences of "around [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous generations had dined in black ties in the panelled dining rooms of observatories that were male preserves ; the new breed ate ‘ primeval pizza ’ in basements around physics labs . |
| 2 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 3 | The limitations of a movement based around university French departments are obvious . |
| 4 | The aim of the scheme is to improve areas around building sites , making them cleaner and easier to negotiate , to encourage contractors working in the borough to use more environmentally-friendly materials and to be more energy efficient . |
| 5 | around Easter time erm would yous be able to take some person just to come and sit in your shop for a week out of our school ? |
| 6 | As we flew down around hairpin bends , I thanked Fate we were n't doing the day 's route in reverse ! |
| 7 | That is , people writing in the eighteenth century that th you know um it was appropriate for kids to be introduced to sex when they were around y'know sort of seven or eight or something in some cases . |
| 8 | Shopping has to be worked around prayer times as all the shops close , and men and women must n't mix unless they are married . |
| 9 | ‘ Also , plaque around gum margins can lead to gum diseases such as gingivitis . |
| 10 | Hand-painted in ten different colourways to match the china , the tiles are proving popular not only for the floor and fireplace surrounds , but for brightening up the area around kitchen Agas . |
| 11 | You may remember , Mr. Speaker , that last year I raised with you the problem of coaches parked in and around Parliament square , which makes it impossible for the Sessional Order to be complied with . |
| 12 | This certainly overstates the situation , but there is no doubt that party leaders in Parliament like to keep a free ( and vague ) policy hand , and in their speeches and campaigning around election time they are more likely to attack opponents and invoke positive symbols than to get down to the specifics of their own party programmes . |
| 13 | His life revolves around computer games : he only ventures out of his room in the Tokyo suburb of Kawagoe to acquire more gameboards , the green , maze-like ‘ minds ’ of arcade games . |
| 14 | Operations centre around computer clubs and groups of enthusiasts who can not resist the challenge of copying something designed to be uncopiable ( see Box ) . |
| 15 | Railings survive where a hazard would have been created by their removal — for example , beside steps or around basement areas — but Victorian houses , which often had front gardens , suffered badly . |
| 16 | But they will begin life by taking the 20 years ' accumulation of magnesium oxide cladding from around uranium fuel rods used in the Magnox reactors . |
| 17 | Could we suggest paving the area around West Hall War Memorial . |
| 18 | The Hunter and The Hunted Pauline Barrie goes on a local walkabout around west London galleries |
| 19 | Now if we do n't do that of course we er we 're going to change lots of patterns , we 're going to potentially increase er commuting out of the area into Leeds , that 's not something which we feel is consistent with er planning policy guidance in the realm erm , I do n't think there 's anything as far as I know in R P G two which er says that adjoining authorities around West Yorkshire should n't er seek to make provision reasonable provision for their own er residents ' needs . |
| 20 | I mean , I sold up around West Hill you said many a time , how we think that 's |
| 21 | If a Japanese firm were brought on a tour around West Belfast they would see all the barbed wire and be discouraged . |
| 22 | Cut back any plants around pond edges that are dying back , and compost them before they pollute the water . |
| 23 | Joe thought Lord Byron , at that stage of his life , needed frog-marching around Horse Guards Parade for a week , with ragamuffin boys allowed to chuck rotten vegetables at him . |
| 24 | High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires , taking their bearings . |
| 25 | Given a severe shortage of expertise in production , finance or marketing the state used the zaibatsu as instruments of national policy by , among other things , offering preferential contracts for state orders , by selling state factories to them cheaply and by building national financial and trading institutions around zaibatsu companies . |
| 26 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 27 | So peaceful land reform based around rent reduction , interest rate reduction , might be the ultimate strategy for given your learning process in the north , given the nature of the economy in the south . |
| 28 | ooh aah Cantana … that 's the chant that rings around football grounds at the moment … in honour of course of the French striker Eric Cantona … |
| 29 | The group is centred around Professor X , the Overseer ; Brother J , the Grand Verbaliser Funkin-Lesson ; and the Rhythm Provider , Sugar Shaft — upfront , serious brothers bringing a spiritual neo-nationalism to the streets of urban America , using hip hop culture to introduce and develop Blackwatch , a youth organisation working for self-help in the black inner cities . |
| 30 | No further expansion at the desktop level is planned , but a new series of high-end DRS boxes due next year and built around Pyramid Technology Corp 's R bus technology could use either processor , depending on which is offering the best price-performance at the time , he says . |