Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By placing radon gas detectors in homes the scientists are getting a clear picture of the problem around the country . |
| 2 | He wrote : " All the occurrences of Jurassic formations … amount to little more than relics of marginal lappings of the sea around the edges of the continents ; the sole exception being the Tethys " . |
| 3 | The generating board is proposing that the part of the vessel around the coolant nozzle , where the cooling system joins the vessel , will be cast in separate parts . |
| 4 | During the reign of Elizabeth I , English seamen such as Drake , Hawkins , Grenville and Raleigh exasperated the Spanish by their expeditions to the Americas , and the Roman Catholic King Philip of Spain also considered Elizabeth I a heretic ; so he despatched a great fleet of galleons , in 1588 , named ‘ The Armada ’ , to sail up the English Channel and transport a Spanish army of invasion from the Netherlands , but the smaller British ships played havoc with the mighty ships during their journey and stormy weather drove the remnants of the Armada around the British Isles , most of the ships being wrecked at various points , including the Atlantic west coast of Ireland . |
| 5 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 6 | It was a little higher than a man , and it ended , rough and unfinished , in the centre of the clearing around the bank of screens . |
| 7 | All the changes reported above indicate a conformational change of the DNA at the borders of the CRP site ( -70 , -80 and -50 ) and suggest a more extensive deformation of the DNA around the CRP-wild-type RNA polymerase complex . |
| 8 | the extent of the concordance around the node ; |
| 9 | Also , the folds of the skin around a baby 's eyes sometimes make her look cross-eyed when she is n't . |
| 10 | Paul was having a tough time himself supervising the contouring of the land around the three-tier pool Stephen had eventually commissioned . |
| 11 | TV monitors were suspended from the roof of the stand to enable spectators to follow the progress of the race around the circuit , and she raised her eyes . |
| 12 | It is this concrete rendering of the space around the highly fragmented objects that gives these paintings a sensation of almost unprecedented complexity . |
| 13 | The synchronous rotation of the Moon around the Earth is one of several consequences of tidal interactions between the Earth and the Moon , ocean tides being a more familiar example . |
| 14 | The physical librations arise because the path of the Moon around the Earth is not perfectly circular . |
| 15 | An under-cook was supervising the cleaning of the stove around the cauldron and the preparation of fresh ingredients to replace those lost . |
| 16 | Cephalic and cervical vesicles are inflations of the cuticle around the mouth opening and in the oesophageal region . |
| 17 | The same was true of the clothing around the bomb and the Samsonite suitcase that contained the device . |
| 18 | Meh'Lindi was soon way out of sight of the Squat around a wide bend . |
| 19 | It therefore represents the path of the sun around the ecliptic and indicates the connection between Mithra and the Iranian god of time , Zurvan . |
| 20 | If this principle is applied to the situation in Figure 9.6 then it is clear that as the parcel 's distance from the spin axis decreases then the speed of the parcel around the spin axis must increase . |
| 21 | High shorelines also occur in the southern part of the rift around the Magadi-Natron basin , where littoral stromatolites have U-series ages of 13510kyr . |
| 22 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 23 | So much of the hydro-electricity around the world is , in fact , used as a storage of energy , and at present there is a scheme under discussion round Loch Lomond for building a high level dam and storage system with power station in a region of particularly scenic beauty , of great importance to the Scots . |
| 24 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 25 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 26 | Camping on the floor of the Ngorongoro crater is much more exciting : there are all sorts of beasties roaming within its walls and the noises of the bush around the campfire give a true sense of the wild . |
| 27 | The effect of the burning power cables was to send much of the instrumentation around the reactor into confusion . |
| 28 | In the four months that have elapsed since we asked for your help in the aftermath of the Jason Donovan libel case , we have been overwhelmed by the show of goodwill and support from friends of THE FACE around the world . |
| 29 | I checked that the bomb was all right , especially that the white crystals of the explosive mixture were dry , then added a plastic-straw fuse and a charge of the explosive around the hole bored in the black pipe and taped everything up . |
| 30 | ‘ All those cosy pictures of the family around the fire , all that stiff upper lip during the war — and now she is determined not to see all her work go down the drain . ’ |