Example sentences of "[noun] that surround [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future was like the blackness that surrounded her , in which there were n't even shadows . |
| 2 | Gay sex does n't deserve the obsession that surrounds it . |
| 3 | The madness of all this is constantly illustrated by a jumbled host of fragmentary images that surround us , of body hair and smells and leakings , of panty liners , bikini lines and cellulite . |
| 4 | ‘ I have never enjoyed the business totally — I hate the artificiality that surrounds it . ’ |
| 5 | Without disentangling the threads of the web that surrounds us , any attempt to describe how things might be otherwise will fall . |
| 6 | Victorian writers often present themselves as speaking from their fireside to those of their readers , while the stories they tell , like those of Dickens 's narrator , Master Humphrey , may be prompted by the objects that surround them . |
| 7 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
| 8 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 9 | Not only was their dustheap to be removed , but much of the slum building that surrounded it . |
| 10 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 11 | The combustion zone heats the unreacted feedstock that surrounds it . |
| 12 | Youngest of the three were the ‘ Pre-Puberty ’ boys aged ten to thirteen ; they were to be taught ‘ the true facts of their origin , of their life development , and of the dangers that surround them … ’ . |
| 13 | Children are not , however , independent of the nexus of expectations , attitudes and values that surround them . |
| 14 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 15 | The two grand old men of Arcueil , and , and the entire cult of French physics that surrounded them are entertainingly dissected through the period when French physics moved from uncompromising support of newtonianism to its near rejection with the wave theory of light . |
| 16 | The energy thus captured by the atom will be discharged into the molecules that surround it . |
| 17 | Use the multi purpose brush head together with one of the towels provided to clean tiled surfaces , the bath , shower and the areas that surround them . |
| 18 | Before looking in more detail at who the ‘ Hooligans ’ were , and in order to place the controversies that surrounded them in perspective , it will be helpful to make an imaginative effort to reconstruct the kind of social world in which the original ‘ Hooligans ’ moved . |
| 19 | Her substantial and brilliant book A Rhetoric of the Unreal uses the work of French intellectual stars in a familiar and matter-of-fact way , without any of the bedazzlement that surrounds them on this side of the Channel . |
| 20 | Main picture Timothy and Christine Easton 's Suffolk farmhouse reflected in the moat that surrounds it Inset , previous page Timothy Easton , painter and sculptor Far left The shape of the internal porch in the parlour shows that the room was once panelled . |
| 21 | British writers , he believes , responded to the element as the dangerous and challenging wilderness that surrounded them , whereas the Americans , having their own wilderness inland , were less in awe . |
| 22 | In the centre of Bishkek , formerly Frunze , where grandiose marble buildings intrude into the paradise of fir trees and mountains that surround them , Alexandra bemoaned the end of empire . |
| 23 | Archivists need to raise their heads above the paper mountains that surround them in order to develop a realistic strategy for the preservation of the new generation of records . |
| 24 | He was there on a Kodak sponsorship to cover a gruelling four-day Super Marathon through the Hoggar Mountains in Algeria , but he found himself constantly distracted by the staggering terrain that surrounded him . |
| 25 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 26 | People do n't appreciate the material belongings that surround them , they just buy things and then chuck them away , they consume and consume and get more and more lost . |
| 27 | Gatsby seems alive like the glittering social circle that surrounds him , whereas Clegg is , emotionally , as dead as his butterfly collection . |
| 28 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 29 | People actually do n't see the real poverty that surrounds them . |
| 30 | MURDER , love affairs , violence , robberies , mounting debts … our soap operas are packed full of every gloomy scenario that surrounds us in the real world . |