Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When your attention is so wrapped around the problems or situations in hand it is easy to lose sight of your own body 's requirements . |
| 2 | Each programme is individually designed around the interests and needs of the student . |
| 3 | Er B B C radio York you are not in the South of France but as it is persistently snowing around the county at the moment I thought you know a little French flavour . |
| 4 | The statutory interest rate is usually fixed around the average overdraft rate , but you may be able to charge more if you have a private arrangement for interest in your terms of sale . |
| 5 | One is usually shunting around the yard while the other three are operating the service , every 40 minutes , to the northern-most section at New Coombe Bridge . |
| 6 | To this end a tourniquet of rubber tubing or other elastic material is usually placed around the upper arm . |
| 7 | In our society , a woman 's identity is still organized around the home , domestic work and child-rearing . |
| 8 | Foam plastic is still used around the cuff , but Cambrelle is now almost always used as the lining material in preference to leather . |
| 9 | Old ships never die and doubtless she is still knocking around the East Coast , though I suppose old Payne may have made his last port by now I should be interested in an oil painting on canvas , or board ( which I suppose would come a bit cheaper ! ! ) showing her beating around the Foreland under sail in fairly heavy weather , say Force 6 … ’ |
| 10 | There is nothing in the history of the 1920s and 1930s to justify the cosy nostalgia that is now cloaked around the pre-war years . |
| 11 | The loop is now formed around the bobbin case , and the thread drawn back through the needle by the take-up lever usually found on the front of the machine . |
| 12 | The rural community is now organized around the farm and farming and defined in opposition to the urban newcomers . |
| 13 | Richard is at Liverpool University reading geography , while Tim , a former head boy at Richmond School , got his geography degree at Liverpool last summer and is now travelling around the world . |
| 14 | To make life even easier , shopping is often based around the car culture . |
| 15 | ‘ Inserting the device inside the brain , actually placing it in the lateral ventricle ensures that the chemical is evenly spread around the brain . ’ |
| 16 | For every emotive vocal outburst from the strained tonsils of Paul , there 's a feeling that reality is fast vanishing around the corner of The Franks ' collective mind . |
| 17 | The proportions remain the same both Haydn-Niemecz and Mozart-Czerny increase from slowest to fastest by a factor of two , and there is no getting around the fact that both pieces of information describe a considerable range for minuet tempos including quite fast Allegrettos . |
| 18 | What I 'd like to introduce lastly now is an approach that you can take to training to help yourselves and to help make it more effective and more systematic and what I 'd like to introduce to you is , is something called the training cycle and the rest of the course is actually based around the training cycle and I know Margaret you 've actually seen the training cycle a few weeks ago , I 'm not sure if , if any of the others are , any of the others familiar ? |
| 19 | The chair is deliberately minimal and is essentially designed around the body to give good lumbar support and spinal relief . |
| 20 | Their examination of Luton again found that the contemporary working class politics is essentially organised around the support and benefit of self and family . |