Example sentences of "of [noun sg] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , we encounter the same pattern which so clearly distinguishes man from the apes — notable absence of canine-tooth dimorphism , prominent displays of hair around the face and neck of the male and , in the female , a secondary sexual display on the chest . |
| 2 | Not long ago a performer in Paris won some notoriety for employing her vagina to swallow , and then powerfully eject , table tennis balls and the history of the seamier side of nightlife around the world is littered with accounts of vaginas that have played harmonicas or smoked cigarettes . |
| 3 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 4 | DameJanet ( Vaughan ) used to tell us about flying the flag of freedom around the world actually a good message to hear ! ’ |
| 5 | made lots of noise around the football table . |
| 6 | There was a tremendous crescendo of noise around the ground . |
| 7 | On the side which will hold the fixed panel , apply a thick bead of mastic around the inside of the jamb recesses , and up the joint with the jamb . |
| 8 | A critical review of literature around the notion of the military-industrial complex and that relevant from development economics will be made to formulate an appropriate theory for the mineral-energy complex . |
| 9 | Her fingers running through the ruff of fur around the cat 's neck tightened as Jehan spoke , and the cat yowled and it bit playfully at her hand . |
| 10 | He inspected the helmet , with its heavy crest and the circling ruff of fur around the rim ; his blow had cut the ruff and damaged the cheek guard . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 12 | Staff in the West Midlands agreed yesterday to restrict radio use — the central issue in London — from Wednesday as part of an intensification of action around the country . |
| 13 | He lay , propped up by pillows , his face a slaty waste of sagging flesh , with lines of tension around the mouth and dull eyes . |
| 14 | 1 So that you can hang the pomander , wind two pieces of tape around the orange at right angles to each other . |
| 15 | A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush . |
| 16 | Through the glass came faintly the sound of Rock Around The Clock . |
| 17 | There was a quick murmur of appreciation around the room , after the execution of Patrick Pearse and the other leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916 , Michael Collins was the most active and charismatic of the leaders of the Cause . |
| 18 | He/she is 5″ long and pure white in colour with slight traces of pink around the stomach and head . |
| 19 | There was an air of concentration around the board now that the lesser players had been removed from the Game . |
| 20 | A thin line of light around the edge indicated that at least the range was alight , even if nobody was sitting by it . |
| 21 | ‘ I can see a bit of light around the horizon , ’ said Gurder . |
| 22 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 23 | Fierce Eyes and his mother made a wall of snow around the mound . |
| 24 | The ‘ battered child syndrome ’ first discovered by Henry Kempe in 1962 referred to a clinical condition in young children , invariably under three , who had received serious physical abuse , usually from a parent , and was identified by the association of subdural haematoma ( a pooling of blood around the skull ) together with evidence of broken or healing long bones ( Kempe et al . , |
| 25 | Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks . |
| 26 | There were some thin smears of blood around the wound . |
| 27 | English Nature have launched a plan to boost the numbers of dormice around the country . |
| 28 | At the conclusion , Richardson 's young , reconstituted team took off on a joyful , hand-in-hand lap of honour around the outfield in a significant show of unity . |
| 29 | Having gathered data and established the existing flow of work around the system — the Brown Paper — they proposed solutions around a second flow diagram , this time on white paper . |
| 30 | Many of the tools used in plumbing are also used in other types of work around the house . |