Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks . |
| 32 | The HEART pumps blood around the body . |
| 33 | The left-hand chambers have to pump much harder to force the re-oxygenated blood around the whole of the body . |
| 34 | The ‘ battered child syndrome ’ first discovered by Henry Kempe in 1962 referred to a clinical condition in young children , invariably under three , who had received serious physical abuse , usually from a parent , and was identified by the association of subdural haematoma ( a pooling of blood around the skull ) together with evidence of broken or healing long bones ( Kempe et al . , |
| 35 | The heart is a pump which pumps blood around the body . |
| 36 | In the same way that the human body , for instance , is an integrated whole whose individual parts serve particular ‘ needs ’ of the system ( for example , the heart performs the function of pumping blood around the body , the bowel functions to collect and evacuate solid-waste products , and so on ) , so society comprises a system of interdependent institutions each with a contribution to make to the overall stability and continuity of the whole . |
| 37 | So the capillaries are the very fine tubes that carry the blood around the body . |
| 38 | Moments later Loughborough lost their flanker John Hastings with a cut around the eye . |
| 39 | It may appear contradictory , at a time when so much emphasis is given to restructuring business/education liaison around the notion of local solutions to local problems , for the Teacher Placement Service to retain a national project team comprising project director and regional managers . |
| 40 | It is rough , black , about four feet high and three feet wide , and huge iron spikes have been hammered in a ring around the top . |
| 41 | But , for all the familiar historical reasons , they can not bring themselves to take decisive steps to tighten the ring around the IRA south of the border . |
| 42 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 43 | In a ring around the gabbro are the sheeted dykes and in the outermost ring , marking the periphery of the massif are the pillow lavas . |
| 44 | Its capture would enable the King to seize Gloucester , open communications with his Welsh supporters and complete the defensive ring around the Royalist headquarters at Oxford . |
| 45 | The juxtaposition of seemingly disparate objects ; the distortion of scale ; the vaguely poetic resonances ( the wedding ring around the finger , the fingers on the piano keys etc. ) all contribute to the enigma of the images at once puzzling and yet trite . |
| 46 | Not having a glue gun I put small bits of hot melt glue in a ring around the face plate and heat them with a heat lamp until the glue melts and a bond with the circle of wood can be made . |
| 47 | The ‘ lesser ’ is smaller , with a pinker , shorter bill and a yellow ring around the eye . |
| 48 | The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be . |
| 49 | In trees , the tiny water tubes are in a ring around the inside of the trunk . |
| 50 | In the early 1960s the American containment ring around the Soviet bloc had been seriously breached only by the Soviet acquisition of military facilities in Cuba . |
| 51 | I think it 's necessary to set the scene for that to say that in fact as between the County Council and Barton Willmore there 's very little difference in what we see are the requirements for the ring around the city , we both have a figure of of six thousand and something quite small . |
| 52 | Those are the herring gull and the lesser black-backed gull , which are two terminal links in a series of forms which sort of form a ring around the pole . |
| 53 | Oh yeah , yes , you get , what , lots to happen , everyone goes in and it 's like a ring around the room , you know hmm |
| 54 | She started rummaging through the litter of tickets wedged into the seal around the glass . |
| 55 | Day Four : This morning you may wish to take a break from cycling and take a wander around the town of Hilversum . |
| 56 | ‘ I 'll go and have a wander around the Roman villa . ’ |
| 57 | He lay , propped up by pillows , his face a slaty waste of sagging flesh , with lines of tension around the mouth and dull eyes . |
| 58 | And all the time the tension around the ground is still mounting and the smouldering excitement of the spectators finally bursts into flames as the commentators announce that ‘ the ground is on fire. ! ’ |
| 59 | It certainly relieves any tension around the shoulders ! |
| 60 | A sick horse has the same outline , and often the same slack mouth ; it may by only the slight tension around the nostril , or an unusual lack of interest in life , that indicate that anything is amiss . |