Example sentences of "[noun] around the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A team of Greenpeace activists protesting against French nuclear testing in the Pacific have been arrested by the French navy after entering the 12-mile exclusion zone around the Pacific atoll of Mururoa , where the tests take place . |
| 32 | In thirty minutes he substantially re-established his parliamentary position and announced a 200-mile naval exclusion zone around the Falklands . |
| 33 | This would allow the Argentinians to stay well clear of the exclusion zone around the Falklands Islands while at the same time being able to attack ships anywhere inside it . |
| 34 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 35 | On Oct. 3 , the rebel forces of the National Guard left the television tower in Tbilisi which had served as their headquarters , and there were reports of a battle around the Tbilisi Sea ( a lake 10 km from the capital ) between rebel and loyal forces , with five injured and possibly three dead . |
| 36 | Probably because for a while he was meant to be a wild child around the Hollywood hills . |
| 37 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 38 | Police helmets went flying as officers formed a protective cordon around the Majors . |
| 39 | Erm Ryedale District , as can be seen from the table supplied by Greater York , has taken the largest proportion of the Greater York housing element over the past ten years , as regards the proposed level of future housing growth suggested for the Greater York area , the District Council supports the figure in the structure plan , the Greater York study identified a number of sites around the Greater York area which could accommodate further development without compromising greenbelt objectives or adversely affecting the character of the settlements surrounding York , and within that part of Southern Ryedale within the Greater York area the identified sites were , by and large , incorporated into the Southern Ryedale local plan , which has recently been through the public enquiry , the District Council does not believe that a larger amount of land could be identified within Southern Ryedale , without compromising greenbelt objectives . |
| 40 | The Symmetrys will be installed in 13 powerstations and seven administration sites around the UK , running Peterborough Software Ltd 's , OpenDoor human resources management software . |
| 41 | Well into modern times the major wetlands of England remained undrained : the Vale of York , the fens around the Humber , the Essex marshes , the Lancashire mosses , Romney Marsh , the Severn lowlands , the Somerset Levels , and , above all , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
| 42 | There are enough places around the UK in which to play live , create a ‘ buzz ’ and catch our attention without competing with jugglers and animal acts . |
| 43 | The Merseyside resource is one of 13 patent office libraries around the UK and is a mine of research and development information with its collections of not only British patents but American and European counterparts . |
| 44 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 45 | It certainly did for Simon Turner , who read a feature on these pages a year ago written by Godfrey Hodgson on his travels around the Michelin ‘ Red Rocker ’ hotels in the region around Toulouse in south-west France . |
| 46 | Angela has set up four regional training bases around the UK where she can draw on local church-related and BBC contacts to assist with training . |
| 47 | Our appetites for a week 's paddle around the North Uist and the west coast of Harris had been wetted ! |
| 48 | The visitors were engineers from the in Japan and were making a fleeting tour of maltings around the UK . |
| 49 | Observations for the last six days before maturity were dropped , as was the period around the October 1987 stock market crash . |
| 50 | Demanding that the NSF should stand down in favour of a caretaker administration , they were confronted by a cordon of tanks and troops around the NSF headquarters . |
| 51 | Some anti-NSF demonstrators rushed the cordon of tanks and troops around the NSF headquarters , and fist fights broke out first with soldiers and then with rival demonstrators . |
| 52 | Many canals still run into the Thames around the Dockland area and most canal and river water is polluted by the disease organism . |
| 53 | Nor does the list display much unity , apart from the suggested group around the Hoptons . |
| 54 | Nor does the list display much unity , apart from the suggested group around the Hoptons . |
| 55 | ‘ One of the last bastions of single-pilot public transport flying ’ — Ronald Liddiard recalls 800 happy hours logged in Aurigny 's Trislanders around the Channel Islands |
| 56 | In the 1920s a team of British geologists discovered hot springs while surveying northern India and the seismic faults around the Himalayas . |
| 57 | Other wrench faults around the Mediterranean may be interpreted similarly , most notably between the eastern Alps and the Dinarides , where similarly opposing structures are found in close proximity . |
| 58 | An extensive 40cm thick bed of syn-diagenetic origin has been worked in Cambrian pelites around the Harlech Dome ( Bennett , 1987 ) . |
| 59 | The Leathercloth works and the numerous smaller scale chemical firms around the Lea also continued to expand , although size and density of settlement never quite matched that of the south . |
| 60 | The appeal has two targets , the first is to celebrate the centenary of the lifesavers by swimming a lap of honour of 7,000 — the distance around the UK — and like every lifeguard club and lifeboat station with their dedicated volunteers . |