Example sentences of "around the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It 's designed around the principle that participation is more important than winning . |
| 32 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 33 | As it turned out , rather too much excitement was just around the corner . |
| 34 | I wandered aimlessly around the National Gallery just for something to do and then went home . |
| 35 | Clean clothes , fares to and from the interview , possibly something to eat or drink when you 're far away from home , even going around the job centres — they all cost money . |
| 36 | The catering assistants started to wind down the evening 's proceedings , and Katrina and one of the other girls ( Bridget ) came out from around the back to tidy up the customer area . |
| 37 | They started by clearing the tables and arranging the wooden chairs on the fixed padded seats around the wall . |
| 38 | A piece of chewing gum had been trodden into the funny carpet border around the edge of the room . |
| 39 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 40 | She quickly disappeared out the back and came around the front to greet me . |
| 41 | The tour finished in the kitchen and she started to busy herself around the cooker . |
| 42 | However , cold tea , and emptying the teapot around the plants has a tremendous effect ; my camellia has glossy new leaves and two new flowers , and a tiny pieris is also pushing its red bracts through . |
| 43 | At around the 5ft height there are two options , bushes or cordons . |
| 44 | If that happened , when the sun came out the lingering nicotine would burn yellow marks around the edges of young foliage . |
| 45 | That is , with a path slap down the middle , a flanking washing line and four narrow borders around the edge . |
| 46 | As they lie smoothly on top of one another , they were also used for the principal retaining walk around the lawn . |
| 47 | One way of avoiding this is to plant them , not in spaces towards the front of borders , but around the stems of trees and shrubs . |
| 48 | Hardy cyclamen and the winter aconite , Eranthis hyemalis , positively thrive in the dry soil ground around the base of mature trees . |
| 49 | It takes only a minute or two to wrap a band of netting supported by three or four canes around the plant , threading one cane through generously overlapping ends to keep the band in place . |
| 50 | A regular walk around the garden to make sure everything is growing healthily is the simplest precaution of all , often revealing preliminary signs of trouble . |
| 51 | On dry soils , mulch annually around the plants to retain what moisture there is , and remember to water regularly if they are overhung by a tree , fence or wall and hence miss out on rainfall . |
| 52 | When a glider is being moved around the airfield , one person should take charge of the whole operation and be responsible for the safety of the aircraft . |
| 53 | Instead it pivots around the main wheel . |
| 54 | However , do n't look at the speed ; try to go by feel and tighten the turn until you feel or hear the airflow start to break away around the wing-root . |
| 55 | Unusual smells , stains or marks on the body or clothes , or around the house |
| 56 | Unusual soreness or redness around the mouth , nose or eyes . |
| 57 | For advice , information and access to over 40 local centres around the country contact : |
| 58 | After three years as a cadet carrying out basic police tasks around the station , I was sworn in as a constable . |
| 59 | The structural load which exists within seemingly minor career moves or internal transfers around the force is enormous . |
| 60 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |