Example sentences of "of [noun pl] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | They allow leading firms continuously to adjust to the collapse of the timescales for the diffusion of products around the world ; people all over the world are increasingly aware of what others are buying . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if there were more than three spatial dimensions , the orbits of planets around the sun or electrons around a nucleus would be unstable and they would tend to spiral inward . |
| 3 | Maybe it is radar , coming back to confirm the solidity of objects around us . |
| 4 | Secondly , they would need to be aware of the interactional domain ( e.g. their scope for movement , and the properties of objects around them ) , and be constantly updating this as it was affected by their actions . |
| 5 | The leeches look as if they have the faces of the bodies they have burst from , and they are capable of rearing up and attacking with a cluster of teeth around a central sucker . |
| 6 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 7 | The beautiful island of Gigha spread out before us with a cluster of houses around the little bay of Ardminish . |
| 8 | Consider the following sequence of activities around a reading passage in Roy Kingsbury 's ( 1983 ) Longman First Certificate Coursebook Unit 21 , entitled ‘ Daydreaming : This time tomorrow … ’ . |
| 9 | Here is a sequence of activities around a reading passage from Simon Greenall 's and Michael Swan 's ( 1986 ) Effective Reading Unit 20 , entitled ‘ Save the jungle — save the world ’ . |
| 10 | Greatbatch and Thomson — again to the arm ball — were swept aside in the space of four deliveries , Patel chose once more to live by the sword and this time died by it , and Cairns fell meekly , to the ever-increasing cluster of fielders around the bat . |
| 11 | During the suppression of the agrarian unrest of 1830 he attempted , unsuccessfully , to improve the wages of labourers around Dorchester . |
| 12 | Top quality mattresses are also hand side-stitched — this will look like rows of dimples around the borders to hold the springs firmly in place at the edges and to strengthen the border . |
| 13 | Lorraine Mann , of the Scottish Campaign against Nuclear Dumping , said it was too early to dismiss a connection between a cluster of cases around Thurso and the Dounreay plant . |
| 14 | The report looked specifically at the cluster of cases around Dounreay and concluded that they were most likely to have been caused by oil workers rather than emissions from the nuclear plant . |
| 15 | The homoclinic orbits to the origin that lie close to X spiral a great number of times around C+ or C " before returning to the origin ; as you work away from X along the spiral the number of turns around C+ or C " decreases . |
| 16 | There are , in fact , infinitely many other families of homoclinic orbits winding any number of times around the z-axis . |
| 17 | Roger Jacobi has described a vivid picture of hunters around Cheddar Gorge using the many shallow access valleys from the Levels to the top of the Mendips as ambush points for animals moving to and fro over the seasons , and it is noticeable how many of the Mesolithic sites located by Joan Taylor and Rebecca Smart are at the top end of shallow valleys in the front of the Mendips and close to former springs . |
| 18 | What we have is an excess of definitions around the feminine whereas men are the undefined norm . |
| 19 | Observers suggest that this group was very much one of its time : it played a role in the breakdown of the supposed post-war welfare consensus and in polarization of attitudes around more overtly political positions on state social policy . |
| 20 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 21 | There was a fireplace with realistically glowing coals and the cosy flicker of flames around them that was , she soon realised , a gas fire ; no bother with cleaning it out , then . |
| 22 | It has been able to anticipate requirements of operators around the world . |
| 23 | While senior members of the party and government hold a series of meetings around the city , the Stefan the Great Movement for National Revival is holding what it calls a ‘ great gathering ’ in the main stadium . |
| 24 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 25 | Five years ago DIP entered its second phase , thanks to the development of software that not only handled image storage and retrieval but actively managed the routing and movement of images around an organisation . |
| 26 | There were no juke-boxes or Coke machines , but there were many shelves of books around the room and a selection of magazines and newspapers ; there were also at least a dozen chess-boards . |
| 27 | In another family , where both father and daughter were in the trade , there were plenty of books around the house , but the children were " not good scholars " whatever that meant . |
| 28 | Primed like an athlete ( until recent events , she revelled in a ‘ Mike Tyson of song ’ tag ) , she bounces her repertoire of voices around what is , in effect , a bowl of sound , aiming to achieve an ‘ atmosphere of claustrophobia and oppression ’ . |
| 29 | The New Zealand Government 's Department of Conservation therefore proposed the introduction of restrictions on the use of set-nets around Banks Peninsula , through the use of an Act of Parliament which most New Zealanders had probably never heard of . |
| 30 | Lightening hit overhead power cables at Stanton Harcourt , cutting off thousands of homes around Burford , Bourton on the Water and the Rissingtons . |