Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [vb pp] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work in the school this term is centred around the theme of the ‘ Natural World ’ and ‘ Living Things ’ . |
| 2 | The discussion in this chapter is organized around the central question ‘ Who does what for whom ? ’ . |
| 3 | It looked awkward , but not heavy , unless you take into account the fact that this linoleum was rolled around a fifty pound salmon . |
| 4 | Sometimes tentacles of a different form are found around the perimeter of the disc . |
| 5 | The Light Rifle is based around the same theory of operation as a lightpen , it 's just much bigger and is designed to be held up to about 10′ from the TV set rather than in contact with the screen . |
| 6 | Longacre ( 1979 ) claims that ‘ in narrative discourse , a narrative paragraph is built around a thematic participant , occasionally a small set of thematic participants ’ ( Longacre , 1979 : 118 ) . |
| 7 | He said the hospice movement in this country is envied around the world for its success in alleviating the pain of terminally-ill patients . |
| 8 | He argued that , in each of Robbe-Grillet 's first three novels , the narrative discourse is focalized around the consciousness of the central protagonist , so the recurrent objects ( the rubber in Les Gommes , the cord in Le Voyeur , the centipede in La Jalousie ) connote some sexual or criminal obsession and the presence of an interiority . |
| 9 | This impetus was centred around an urban renewal policy that — along with explicitly segregationist policies in federal public housing — cut off minority communities , displaced large sections of these communities and concentrated them between expressways , office complexes , stadiums and civic centers . |
| 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 ) . |
| 11 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 12 | The second area is located around the development of information systems involving considerations such as meaningfulness , accuracy and accessibility of data . |
| 13 | Sometimes moxibustion is used alongside acupuncture : a ball of dried herb is placed around the shaft of the needle . |
| 14 | It may simply be the result of little domestic refuse being left around the farm ; cereals may not have been processed there , or , if they were , not in a place likely to have resulted in their being burnt and therefore preserved . |
| 15 | Eric spat and choked down the line , and there followed the noise of the phone-box handset being smashed around the inside of the booth . |
| 16 | Most of the resultant industry was concentrated around the new town of Middlesbrough , but in 1864 the Middleston Iron Company was founded . |
| 17 | The traditional village was centred around the church with its white walls and red or grey stonework . |
| 18 | Hunting 's present business is based around a variety of aircraft maintenance and support services . |
| 19 | Firebacks cast in one or two pieces are put into place , and corrugated cardboard is wrapped around the back to provide an expansion joint . |
| 20 | I hope today that all excitement is centred around the Felton goalmouth . |
| 21 | The most common alternative system is based around a number of microswitches . |
| 22 | A further example is shown in Figure 5b for ( AT ) 5 GC(AT) 5 in which the only reductions in DNase I cleavage are located around the central GC . |
| 23 | Heavy fighting was reported around the cities of Shaqlawa and Sulaimaniya on April 13 in which 150 government troops were said to have been killed . |
| 24 | General hospital units would provide the typical destigmatizing , cure-centred approach being followed around the psychiatric globe . |
| 25 | How could he grow when his very being is constructed around the petulant refusal — ‘ I wo n't grow up ’ ? |
| 26 | Every IBM PC compatible computer is built around a Processing Chip ( processor ) , and this chip is nominally a member of the Intel x86 family . |
| 27 | The new Modular Color X terminal line is built around the 88100 RISC from Motorola Inc and is designed to bring to mid-cost products functions and performance once available only on high-end units , including PEX three-dimensional graphics and performance reaches 100,000 Xstones . |
| 28 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 29 | The most reproducible decrease in urine acid output in response to normal food was observed around the time breakfast was usually eatenand was abolished by 36 hours of treatment with ranitidine . |
| 30 | WHEN the famous Green Jacket was draped around the shoulders of Fred Couples last April , the American might well have shuddered . |