Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.

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1 You may have to tell guests in advance , ‘ We 're cutting the cake and having the speeches in the dining room at half past , ’ then send the chief bridesmaid into the gardens if it is a fine day , and the other bridesmaids around the house , to inform stragglers that the speeches are about to be made .
2 Labour knows , and the long faces around the hon. Gentleman confirm , that the council tax is a winner and that we have found in three months the solution that has eluded Labour for three years .
3 The cosmic ray flux varies and the different materials around the laboratory can produce very different amounts of background neutrons from one place to another .
4 In the 1920s a team of British geologists discovered hot springs while surveying northern India and the seismic faults around the Himalayas .
5 Thomson Free Newspapers has 75 titles in the UK , while the paid-for centres around the country , including Edinburgh and Aberdeen , also publish a number of free weekly papers , bringing the total nearer 100 .
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