Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The denigration of office work as inferior , non-manual labour , has a key place in the sexual transformation of clerical work around the turn of the century . |
| 2 | The earliest such critique in the field of literary theory was that of Frank Lentricchia , who organized his entire account of modern criticism around the premise of a ‘ repeated and extremely subtle denial of history by a variety of contemporary theorists ’ . |
| 3 | In the centre of the lawn , a large decorative tub has been planted with a small leaved variegated ivy with clipped lavender around it . |
| 4 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 5 | There is a large area of new build around where the southern fire station will be and I do say will be because it will be . |
| 6 | Serge Moscovici , who has been both the Marx and the Lenin of this revolutionary movement , has advocated a fundamental reorientation of social psychology around the concept of social representations . |
| 7 | The swaps are in line with BP 's ongoing policy of growing activity around core producing assets . |
| 8 | With practised twists of his fork the gardener spread a small pile of stable manure around the strawberry plants . |
| 9 | You 've got a fucking peanut with fucking chocolate around the top but that 's shit , but listen |
| 10 | If the little sods want to experiment , that 's fair enough ; we scatter a widely varied selection of ephemeral matter around the common room for them to browse over or deface — the Daily Express , Lancet , Exchange & Mart , Viz … that sort of thing . |
| 11 | What makes one pause when considering the role of public transport is the dispersed nature of modern society around the big cities . |
| 12 | It rests on a massive plinth of carboniferous limestone around the 1300-ft contour , this being based at valley level on impervious rock . |
| 13 | An Azeri attack on Armenian territory around the village of Artsvashen in western Azerbaijan in early August prompted Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan on Aug. 10 to appeal to the signatories of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) collective security treaty ( signed by six member states at the Tashkent summit in May — see p. 38922 ) to " carry out their obligations " in coming to Armenia 's aid . |