Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 2 | The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be . |
| 3 | Its capture would enable the King to seize Gloucester , open communications with his Welsh supporters and complete the defensive ring around the Royalist headquarters at Oxford . |
| 4 | In the early 1960s the American containment ring around the Soviet bloc had been seriously breached only by the Soviet acquisition of military facilities in Cuba . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll go and have a wander around the Roman villa . ’ |
| 6 | As the rough represents the variability around the smoothed line , it is sometimes appropriate to use it to indicate the typical degree of variation around the smoothed curve . |
| 7 | In the catalogue John House quoted Monet 's description of the painted light around the snowy haystacks as an enveloping veil . |
| 8 | It 's not silent — there 's the train on the ridge , the soughing of wind around the great buttresses above , lake-water lapping on the shingle shore where I was standing . |
| 9 | A large open wound remained which was dressed by dry lint and the arteries were tied off by passing a ligature around the entire mass of vessels . |
| 10 | The NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner , commented that " to see defence ministers who were in a sense at the heart of the Cold War confrontation sitting in a spirit of partnership around the same table is a remarkable and moving event " . |
| 11 | The Author few his first Canberra trip in T.4 WT483 with a familiarisation sortie around the local area . |
| 12 | In mid-December the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE , or the Tamil Tigers — the main Tamil insurgent group ) had routed the pro-IPKF Tamil National Army ( TNA ) in bloody fighting around the eastern port of Batticaloa [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 13 | As well as the South-Eastern countryside they enjoyed a sample of what 's on offer from the new range of Cassidys fashion and had a glance around the new-look Wexford branch . |
| 14 | Sweeping a nervous glance around the dark garden , Loretta joined them in Puddephat 's sitting-room . |
| 15 | His wife remarried and his rather dismal son , William Winslade , is recorded as having drifted in poverty as an itinerant harpist around the great houses of Cornwall . |
| 16 | At an earlier stage the council had accepted the architects ' proposal to replace the chainlink fencing around the adjacent churchyard with cast-iron railings of period appearance . |
| 17 | Using genuine folk instruments such as armadillo charangos , pan pipes and caja and playing them splendidly , the group built their programme around the Bolivian seasons and the ritual divisions of the year . |
| 18 | As a consequence , Ingolstadt has used selective street closure around the principal street , which is pedestrianised ( Figure 6.43 ) and that crossing it , which is closed to all bar buses and taxis . |
| 19 | As arms tire you may like to fiddle a tape around the obvious thread , though it 's probably better to continue . |
| 20 | But there 'll be some jollification around the old homestead tonight and nobody likes tripping the light fantastic better than wor Martin . ’ |
| 21 | The tarn would have been about 50ft. in depth at that time with the bottom around the 1,300 ft. contour . |
| 22 | Peterborough Embankment roach to 8 oz fair sport around the new road bridge . |
| 23 | Following the latest vandalism at Northern League club Ryhope , youth team keeper Peter Quinn went fund raising around the local pubs and clubs , and collected £147 to help repair the damage . |
| 24 | So there 's some countries in the desert around the Gobi desert that do n't have any primary industry . |
| 25 | The highly successful relocation of the BLS has been well documented elsewhere and construction of their new museum around the former goods shed is steadily proceeding with the steel framework erected and the concrete floor and pit being prepared . |
| 26 | Since early February oyster-catchers had been arriving back from spending the winter around the big estuaries of mainland Britain and by the end of March were well distributed in coastal areas . |
| 27 | Into the discussions of partnership in validation , the ‘ blue book ’ and the possibility of new validation arrangements with ‘ mature ’ institutions were fed the varied attempts to draw lessons from and conduct dialogue around the specific difficulties encountered over the Teesside visit . |
| 28 | My main problem has been dragging myself away from my favourite armchair , prising my eyes from the television and relinquishing my white-knuckle grip around the remote control . |
| 29 | A groom was leading a pair of matched sorrel st'lyan at the trot around the beaten clay of an exercise ring . |
| 30 | Defying the security cordon around the diplomatic area of Tirana , some 800 Albanians swarmed into the Italian mission and more than 500 into the French embassy ; smaller groups entered the Greek , Turkish , Hungarian and Czechoslovak missions . |