Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] be [verb] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 2 | Whatever it was , it sent her flying ; one minute she was up , the next lying in an uncomfortable heap , half in , half out of a pile of brambles that was growing around the base of a tree in a haphazard , choking sort of way . |
| 3 | The suddenly rendered-visible women who attracted attention were working with anti-sculptural , anti-formal , alternative strategies and were mobilised around the hyperactive Lucy Lippard ( who , until then , had been very partial to male artists in her exhibition projects and writings ) . |
| 4 | Maintaining confidence and support depends on the thousand little things that are done around the school . |
| 5 | The two trucks into which the Taste Sensation packs and is transported around the country were custom built for the job . |
| 6 | When they looked closer they saw that he was whipping , not a fallen beast , but a spindly-legged Annamese ; both carts , they could see , contained refuse and had shafts front and back that terminated in cane , big wooden halters that were locked around the necks of four sweating Annamese . |
| 7 | The idea is to let the initial sample of urine that is passed wash away any bacteria that are found around the urethral meatus or in the urethra , so that , if any bacteria are grown in the laboratory , it will be reasonably certain that they reflect infection actually inside the bladder or kidneys . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , what is most notable is the remarkable stability of the complaints and accusations that were arranged around the criminal question , providing firm lines of continuity between pre-war and postwar Britain . |