Example sentences of "be around the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I could be involved in a number of different ways , ’ she continues , ‘ but I can still do it well enough , and you never know what 's around the next corner . |
| 32 | But it 's hard on Tour when you 're a long way from home and the only creature comforts you have are a television , a telephone and a McDonald 's around the corner . |
| 33 | You can imagine the expression on our faces when she promptly replied ; ‘ Oh yes , it 's around the back . ’ |
| 34 | Just over a third of those guilty of indictable offences are cautioned , that 's around the national average and well below that in Kent . |
| 35 | He 's well over six feet tall , sports a rough-and-tumble greying beard and , as a physical specimen , he 's around the same mass as , say , Norway . |
| 36 | All right yeah well let's erm le let's stick to talking about the leaf stem for now cos we do n't want to go on er slagging off every bit of art that 's around the city centre do we Barbara otherwise |
| 37 | We ate by the light of three candles and our eyes all shone like children 's around the table . |
| 38 | Obviously I do n't want a wife of Peter 's around the place if she 's not going to behave in a civil manner to me . ’ |
| 39 | She explained : ‘ In a series you never know what is around the corner because the lines develop from episode to episode . |
| 40 | However , it is around the two main potential uses of this land — agriculture and forestry — that discussion must revolve . |
| 41 | ’ Summing up , ’ said Nilghard , ‘ I must say that the only place where I have seen correspondingly bad situations in Central Europe before is around the biggest airports in West Germany . ’ |
| 42 | Firstly , the peak age for conviction is around the school-leaving age and the likelihood of conviction after that age declines ; and , secondly , a very significant proportion of the offences committed by juveniles are very trivial — stealing milk bottles for example . |
| 43 | This catchment area is around the lakes of Ullswater and Hawes Water from both of which water is piped to Manchester . |
| 44 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 45 | Perhaps Herpomyces is able to penetrate the host 's exoskeleton only where the exoskeleton is thin , as it is around the base of the sensory hairs that cover the cockroach antennae . |
| 46 | Its current value is around the £250–300 mark |
| 47 | Its population is around the 3.3 million mark compared with some 56 million in the UK . |
| 48 | A more specific example of how the culture of work profoundly influences the industrial worker is around the issue of assessment . |
| 49 | Unfortunately , ill luck , in his case compounded by ill judgement , dogs the unsuccessful , and the only way into the sport , for some who should never be in it , is around the less successful teams . |
| 50 | The large ships used during the BGS offshore reconnaissance geological mapping programme could not approach close inshore , and so there is around the United Kingdom coast a largely unexplored area stretching in places several kilometres offshore . |
| 51 | Wagamama is around the corner from the British Museum , through a discreet glass door , past a sand-filled ashtray and down some stairs to a big white basement with a shiny open kitchen at one end . |
| 52 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said he expects to ship the follow-on to Windows 3.1 , codenamed Chicago , in 1994 but declined to say at what point in the year the upgraded system will be launched : ‘ We should debunk any notion that Chicago is around the corner , ’ Gates told an audience of developers sponsored by Microsoft — ‘ All we can say is we expect it will be in 1994 and we 'll keep people in touch on that . ’ |
| 53 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said he expects to ship the follow-on to Windows 3.1 , codenamed Chicago , in 1994 but declined to say at what point in the year the upgraded system will be launched : ‘ We should debunk any notion that Chicago is around the corner , ’ Gates told an audience of developers sponsored by Microsoft — ‘ All we can say is we expect it will be in 1994 and we 'll keep people in touch on that . ’ |
| 54 | The most comprehensive available data on exploration for tin-tungsten is around the Mulberry open pit near Bodmin ; a large low-grade deposit . |
| 55 | By about five weeks the embryo is around the size of the smaller illustration and is highly developed . |
| 56 | Some say a new era of enlightenment is around the corner , some say that consciousness is quietly entering the mainstream , while others see a grim world of confusion and chaos ( not chaos theory but just plain chaos ) . |
| 57 | " The house is around the corner . |
| 58 | Generally the extra cost for this type is around the same as for adding your own jacket — but the insulation wo n't fall off . |
| 59 | That value is around the Scottish average . |
| 60 | The positioning of the rose bed acts as a pivot to the design and also partially breaks the sight line , adding a degree of mystery as one wonders just what is around the corner . |