Example sentences of "revolve around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social life in the country may revolve around entertainment of business associates and other expatriates in the home . |
| 2 | The food will revolve around veal stew at about £6 . |
| 3 | The planning role of providers , whether directly managed units , self-governing hospitals or the private sector , would largely revolve around business planning to secure and fulfil contracts . |
| 4 | I never really consciously set out to do war photography ; I set out to do political photography , international politics and a lot of that revolves around conflict . |
| 5 | His life revolves around computer games : he only ventures out of his room in the Tokyo suburb of Kawagoe to acquire more gameboards , the green , maze-like ‘ minds ’ of arcade games . |
| 6 | Because much of the Scottish game revolves around ball won at the touchlines , extra attention will have to be paid to this facet of play . |
| 7 | Likewise , part of the argument also revolves around possibility that in additional land within the inner greenbelt boundary , and again you 've heard our argument on that this morning , and I do n't propose to repeat that . |
| 8 | From the foregoing , you will see that my experience , and hence the bulk of this talk , revolves around engineering applications although for the last 9 months of my time in post I also was responsible for supply aspects of AI and I will cover this briefly . |
| 9 | You see , for me the world revolves around food . |
| 10 | We 're getting more and more aware of how it all revolves around cash . ’ |
| 11 | In their metaphorical indiscipline they had gained ‘ new status ’ and slipped across a boundary into marginality , for as Foucault ( 1977 : 25 ) has suggested , the idea of discipline revolves around control of the physical body and ‘ proceeds from the distribution of individuals in space … it is always the body that is at issue — the body and its forces , their utility and their docility , their distribution and their punishment ’ . |
| 12 | Credit marketing revolves around pre-screening to enable the lender to make a pre-approved credit offer , eg mailing the offer of a $5000 Visa card limit to vetted names . |
| 13 | Another area of concern revolves around job prospects . |
| 14 | The household timetable revolves around restaurant work , with children often being late for school , and visitors being least welcome ( and this is a very hospitable culture ) early in the morning . |
| 15 | Moreover , by providing a sustained source of recruits they brought into being the radical subculture which revolved around discussion circles , experimental communes , and avant-garde journals . |
| 16 | The interview inside revolved around vegetarianism . |
| 17 | Clinton 's chief henchman , Venner , was an amiable enough fellow but his conversation revolved around bear and cock fighting and the virtues of one breed of horse over another . |
| 18 | Many early religious cults revolved around sexuality . |
| 19 | Sukenick 's own composed sequences ( revolving around routine violence ) are juxtaposed with excerpts from contemporary reports on Hell 's Angels , the Manson family , etc. to suggest a picture of conditions . |
| 20 | For managers , the issue manifests itself at a more procedural level , and is now revolving around resource management . |
| 21 | The debate on whether insider dealing should or should not be regulated would appear to revolve around difference in moral values and differences as to the factual consequences of insider dealing . |
| 22 | ( pls. 1–12 ) Produced by nomadic and semi-nomadic tribesman ( semi-nomads spend part of the year in villages or settled camps ) whose life has traditionally revolved around breeding sheep , weaving rugs and raiding their neighbours ' camps . |