Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] around the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no outstanding houses but the lines of brick houses grouped around the central green and round smaller greens in other parts of the village form a pleasing composition . |
| 2 | However , the reception office is very much a functional working area and should be well planned with work centres focused around the major equipment used , and located so that communication and liaison with the other sections is easy , simple and efficient . |
| 3 | Against Labour , antisocialist interests cohered around the Municipal Alliance . |
| 4 | On the earth floors of the leaking , palm-thatched barrack huts dotted around the vast plantation , fifteen hundred Annamite coolies who would resume the unending toil of emptying the little tin cups in the gray light of the coming dawn shivered and drowsed fitfully in the downpour . |
| 5 | The former assessed need to spend by an authority as a basis for calculating entitlement to block grant ; the latter was a system of expenditure controls based around the progressive removal of grant above the ‘ target ’ expenditure level set for each authority . |