Example sentences of "in [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six smugglers , including William Carter , were hanged together on the Broyle outside Chichester on 19 January 1749 and their bodies gibbeted in chains around the county as a grim warning to other would-be smugglers . |
| 2 | In cases around the room lie the collected fragmentary treasures of human ancestry , mostly skulls , jaws and teeth with a few partial limb bones . |
| 3 | There are several variants of the argument , differing at least in part around the degree of class reductionism and the amount of reflexivity allowed to the working class racist subject . |
| 4 | Now there are various exceptions to this : for example , some languages have demonstratives organized in part around the location of other participants than speakers . |
| 5 | Have you ever felt that you ( and the family ) are in orbit around a controlling , wilful toddler ? |
| 6 | Since opposite charges attract , the reason why the electron does not gravitate towards the nucleus but stays in orbit around it ( even though it is radiating and losing its energy in doing so ) is because it retains a certain energy called ‘ ground-state energy ’ . |
| 7 | Alternatively , home-base could be a vast artificial satellite , a moon of plasteel in orbit around any of those . |
| 8 | Lord Sagramoso 's writ had run to the other barren planets of Karka 's Sun , and to those of its runtish red dwarf binary twin , Karka Secundus , including some small mining world in orbit around the twin . |
| 9 | In order to bolster his suggestion that sunspots were not ( as Galileo affirmed ) blemishes on the sun but small satellites in orbit around it , Scheiner had exploited Galileo 's own discovery of the satellites of Jupiter . |
| 10 | The manual operation of broadcasting a recognition signal to the platforms in orbit around Tarvaras had been duplicated simultaneously by four automatic sending stations which were situated at various points along the Simonova 's mainframe . |
| 11 | For a long time it had been accepted that humans could not survive on worlds which were in orbit around any sun which was capable of being classed as a red giant . |
| 12 | The natural assumption was that the electrons were in orbit around the nucleus as the earth is in orbit around the sun . |
| 13 | The natural assumption was that the electrons were in orbit around the nucleus as the earth is in orbit around the sun . |
| 14 | Similarly , the gravity of the sun keeps the planets in orbit around it and stops the earth from shooting off into the darkness of interstellar space . |
| 15 | Consider two bodies in orbit around each other , such as M and m in Figure 6.2 ( a ) . |
| 16 | Capture is made considerably easier if the Moon was captured in small pieces , because interactions between them , or between circum-Earth gases and such pieces would readily place some of them in orbit around the Earth . |
| 17 | For a body moving in orbit around the Sun the surface facing the direction of orbital motion will be struck by more ‘ bullets ’ than the trailing face , just like the front of you gets wetter than the back when you run through a storm of vertically descending rain . |
| 18 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 19 | Two rocky bodies , masses m 1 and m 2 , densities d 1 and d 2 , are in orbit around a planet of mass M. Both bodies are several hundred kilometres diameter . |
| 20 | So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey . |
| 21 | One modern example is a space capsule in orbit around the earth ; another is a capsule falling radially toward the Earth . |
| 22 | These had originally also been nomadic pastoralists , but even by the time of the Russian conquest were partly settled and engaged in agriculture around the Tatar towns such as Tara and Tyumen . |
| 23 | Old Nene in March around Wigston Bridge offers roach to 1 lb in nets to 10 lb . |
| 24 | Mandi , who has signed with Spennymoor agents AIR , can be seen in clubs around the area . |
| 25 | The bulk of the Collection was sold in mass lots contained in one or more tea-chests arranged in groups around a large room . |
| 26 | The refugees , small wiry people dressed in rags the same colour as the desert , huddle in the shelters , crouch in the shade behind the buildings , or in groups around the places where relief teams distribute what little food there is . |
| 27 | They stood in groups around the bed smiling and talking , joking gently as though their words were necessary medicine . |
| 28 | When the females have laid their eggs , which they deposit on the moist ground , the males sit in groups around them on guard . |
| 29 | Ordinary pantiles abounded in eastern England where commerce with Holland was strong and they began to be manufactured in Norfolk around the turn of seventeenth century . |
| 30 | Daily events were arranged in cities around America and each day was given a theme . |