Example sentences of "[noun] around the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Today there are over 36 million cards in circulation around the world . |
| 32 | In the majority of houses there are two different types of hot water : one which is in continuous circulation around the radiators of the central heating system , and one which comes out of the hot water taps in the bathroom and kitchen . |
| 33 | Having iced the cake with a plain layer of royal icing and then left it to dry , I have made copies of small pressed flower pictures both on the top , as a centrepiece , and with small sprays around the sides of the cake . |
| 34 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 35 | • We will be providing information for CND supporters around the country to show how a ‘ Peace Dividend ’ could benefit their local areas . |
| 36 | Chairman Howard Wilkinson said : ‘ There is a strong feeling among managers and players that rules applying to them are not being applied to other people , namely supporters around the dug-outs . |
| 37 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |
| 38 | How much more bad publicity do the Government have to get on the failure of their housing programme from the Duke of Edinburgh , Conservative councillors and their supporters around the country before they do what we are all asking them to do and undertake a planned release of the capital receipts ? |
| 39 | It is the pressures of the people of South Africa and our supporters around the world who will compel the regime to negotiate real and fundamental change . |
| 40 | ANTI-apartheid supporters around the world were told to prepare for the lifting of international sanctions against South Africa during an African National Congress conference yesterday . |
| 41 | The venture has been conspicuously successful in giving a platform to Scottish musicians , and in building audience momentum around the country , although the break from now until the autumn could threaten the latter achievement . |
| 42 | They organised 12-car rallies around the Cambridge Fens , asking every local resident for permission to hold the event and then , when the snow caused the event to be called off , they did the same thing again . |
| 43 | The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme . |
| 44 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 45 | She ran her forefinger around the inside of the white pyrex bowl and said nothing . |
| 46 | The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work … apparently yes.It 's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects … so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier . |
| 47 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 48 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 49 | Most of the talk around the world has been of " stages " , as though these units , though of no defined dimensions , are the ultimate in stratigraphical correlation on a world-wide scale . |
| 50 | It was originally powered by an iron and wood breast shot water wheel , replaced with a turbine around the turn of the century . |
| 51 | Starting in the early days of St Cuthberts with local delivery carts , there has been continuous use of this economical form of transport , through the heyday of the horse around the turn of the century , and the rapid change to motorized vehicles in the 1920s and 30s , to the hire carriages in use today . |
| 52 | But with over one million people currently on waiting lists around the country , + you may find that the NHS just ca n't treat you as soon as you 'd like . |
| 53 | Burning at earlier stages continues in shells around the core , like the layers of an onion . |
| 54 | There were some thin smears of blood around the wound . |
| 55 | Compressed air oscillates the ventricles , circulating blood around the body . |
| 56 | Accordingly , the rhythmic compression of our leg-veins when we walk , or chest-veins when we breathe , turn these veins into little peristaltic pumps , aiding the circulation of the blood around the body . |
| 57 | Blood pressure is the pressure which the heart and arteries apply in order to squeeze the blood around the body . |
| 58 | Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks . |
| 59 | The HEART pumps blood around the body . |
| 60 | The left-hand chambers have to pump much harder to force the re-oxygenated blood around the whole of the body . |