Example sentences of "the perimeter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other important point to remember about wall tiles is that spacer lugs are no more , and the old-fashioned types that are rounded on one ( RE ) or two ( REX ) edges , used to finish off the perimeter of half-tiled areas , have virtually disappeared too . |
| 2 | Here , in a room even estate agents would have difficulty describing as anything other than small , 20 people clung to the perimeter walls as a man with a Chris Waddle haircut hammered out some old rock cliches . |
| 3 | Dr Joseph Wybran , the head of the Belgian Auschwitz Committee , who had campaigned for the removal of an order of Carmelite nuns from a convent just outside the perimeter of the former Birkenau extermination camp , was shot in the head outside Brussels University Hospital on Wednesday . |
| 4 | Within minutes , the Austrian goalkeeper , Franz Wohlfahrt , was being pelted with missiles , including 5ft iron bars torn from the perimeter fence , one of which appeared to hit him on the back . |
| 5 | As the action proper begins , Poseidon and Athene rush a white curtain round the perimeter of the auditorium . |
| 6 | This is acutely ironic in the light of Kenneth Lewes 's recent argument to the effect that the psychoanalytic bias against male homosexuals derives from an initial gynaecophobic stance in psychoanalysis whereby ‘ the fear and denigration of women which hover at the perimeter of analytic discourse become displaced onto the theory of male homosexuality ’ . |
| 7 | The Orderly Officer inspects the duty staff on staff parade and then goes on her rounds to check the perimeter fence . |
| 8 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 9 | A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm . |
| 10 | There was no exit in the perimeter fence and the gates in the side fence were locked . |
| 11 | A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm . |
| 12 | There was no exit in the perimeter fence and the gates in the side fence were locked . |
| 13 | Around the perimeter , men with shot-guns advanced towards the centre . |
| 14 | Beyond the perimeter wall ran a vein of the Bradford Beck , its filthy waters gurgling below ground before breaking free for some distance to pass Old Ashfield 's wooded hillside . |
| 15 | On a few occasions Frankie had found the courage to scale the perimeter wall to look for rats in the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 16 | At its farthest point , that spot where he hovered high in the air before the rope changed direction , he knew that he was suspended sixty feet above Mucky Beck and the perimeter wall . |
| 17 | Wearily and painfully , I lugged my bag along the perimeter of the square , past rows of little shops . |
| 18 | Troops from Benghazi lined the perimeter of the playground , and were posted with machine-guns on the roofs of buildings overlooking the election . |
| 19 | The perimeter of this figure is 4:3 longer than the original triangle . |
| 20 | The perimeter can be increased further by superimposing equilateral triangles on the prongs of the star . |
| 21 | At each stage the perimeter lengthens by 4:3 . |
| 22 | The location of the perimeter of a square can be described by continuous lines . |
| 23 | Around the perimeter of the room , the shadows of the literate flickering gracefully on its walls , there were convulsive scramblings for miniature baked potatoes filled with cream cheese and caviar . |
| 24 | Mr Taylor 's claim came vividly to mind when the revolving advertising boards around the perimeter of the Hillsborough yesterday flashed up the legend : ‘ UEFA ‘ 96 The Pitch Is England 's . ’ |
| 25 | One fully automatic greenhouse is filled with flowering and foliage pot-plants ; round the perimeter carnations , alstroemerias and freesias are being grown for cut flowers using the latest cultivation techniques . |
| 26 | Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter . |
| 27 | They are stout plates around the perimeter , but tiny-plates in the central part of the animal . |
| 28 | Around the perimeter of the head there is a pitted fringe , which is unique to this kind of arthropod . |
| 29 | In the meantime all we have is the popular version that Blake was befriended by a 32-year-old Irishman , Sean Bourke , who at the time was coming to the end of a seven-year sentence and was living in the prison hostel just inside the perimeter wall of the prison but allowed to go out to work each day on parole . |
| 30 | Although this section of the wall was under constant surveillance by two warders , one of whom had to patrol the perimeter wall on foot taking about eight minutes , Blake was able to reach the foot of the wall unobserved where he found Bourke 's ladder , with which he made his escape , hanging over the wall . |