Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] [verb] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Kanter , who was recently voted one of the 100 most important women in the United States by a leading business magazine , does not dispute that the agenda for change is based around the so-called ‘ softer ’ values . |
| 2 | Demand did not stretch to either Lloyds , which struggled to end 4 firmer at 359p after reports of a large line of stock being offered around the market both late on Wednesday and early yesterday , or Abbey National , off 2 at 266p . |
| 3 | The ECG also monitors the amount of blood being pumped around the body — crucial in major surgery where blood loss and supply have to be carefully balanced . |
| 4 | On the rare occasions when vertical stripes are used in the design , the adjoining sections are either stitched together at the back , or the first and last weft threads from the adjoining segments of pattern are tied around the same warp strand — a technique used by the American Indians in weaving blankets . |
| 5 | The difficulty lay in the fact that what characterized their view of primitive society was that it was classless and free of exploitation , while the Marxist theory of society is built around the idea of class . |
| 6 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 7 | Regions of interest were drawn around the stomach and colon . |
| 8 | An open letter written by a group of Hefei students calling for solidarity was passed around the campuses , as well as tapes of Fang Lizhi 's Shanghai speech , outlining the need for democracy and the importance of intellectual development in China . |
| 9 | The method used to spin both types was the same , a short whip of string or leather about eighteen inches in length was wound around the top which was then placed upright on the ground and steadied with one finger . |
| 10 | First , mutations in the 5'TGCAA motif in cddP reduces binding of CytR ( 7 ) ( Fig. 6 ) ; and , second , the CytR-DNA backbone contacts in cytRP are arranged around the inverted repeat in this promoter as they are in deoP2 ( 8 ) . |