Example sentences of "[noun] that surround it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gay sex does n't deserve the obsession that surrounds it . |
| 2 | ‘ I have never enjoyed the business totally — I hate the artificiality that surrounds it . ’ |
| 3 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
| 4 | Not only was their dustheap to be removed , but much of the slum building that surrounded it . |
| 5 | The combustion zone heats the unreacted feedstock that surrounds it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The energy thus captured by the atom will be discharged into the molecules that surround it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A safe , a filing cabinet , a window that was curtained against the dusk of the camp and the reef of arc lights that surrounded it . |
| 10 | Stephen walked about his room , thinking about the house he was in , about the garden and the brick wall that surrounded it , and the white iron gate in the archway , and the setters and the summer-house . |
| 11 | This ‘ Gish ’ out-take is no earth-shattering pop classic , just a steely example of sweaty-fingered , control-freak intelligent-metal , and it still sounds eight to ten times superior to the Brit stuff that surrounds it in this week 's pile of singles . |
| 12 | Surely the time has arrived for the British Royal Family to put a proper end to the speculation that surrounds it by telling the truth . |
| 13 | More noticeable still was the faint octarine glow that surrounded it . |
| 14 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Most of his news-making troubles began in 1986 when he and Madonna embarked on a movie that never lived up to all the hype and publicity that surrounded it , Shanghai Surprise . |
| 16 | Since then , under the Communists , Nordhausen remained a metal town , spewing its untreated , black , smelter smoke into the atmosphere and polluting the beautiful countryside that surrounded it . |
| 17 | So we should probably begin by asking what college is for and reviewing the various arguments that surround it . |
| 18 | No matter how well experience goes , it is only able to confirm a non-observation sentence in the light of the theory that surrounds it ; alter the theory , and the non-observation sentence might not be confirmed by experience at all . |
| 19 | Is it not unlikely , incredible , that this gold coin , dwarfed by the space that surrounds it , can be the power-house for all life ? |
| 20 | We know very little of these early years , beyond that it was a family of privilege , untouched by the economic scourge that surrounded it , though Nathan Cohen must frequently have feared it might touch them , too — not least when he was blessed with a much hoped-for son , whom he named Leonard Norman . |
| 21 | In spite of all the grandeur that surrounded it , there was no one to call it creator ; for it had not brought forth creation . |
| 22 | ‘ After all the controversy that surrounded it , we were congratulated for sticking to our guns and doing the production . ’ |
| 23 | Even here , however , the market retains its ‘ open air ’ image , and is separate from the retail outlets that surround it . |
| 24 | Though to some extent exaggerated by the press , the disorder that surrounded it was far greater than anything occasioned by earlier industrial confrontations at locations such as Saltley , Grunwick , and Warrington . |
| 25 | If you can hold your feelings and examine them , force yourself to hear the voice and ask why it produces the response that it does , you are beginning to get the better of it , to break the fearful silence that surrounds it and , incidentally , to add another voice to your writing repertoire . |
| 26 | If we can laugh out loud about getting old , break the silence that surrounds it instead of suffering quietly , then we are beginning to escape from a fear society wants us to have — so we will buy uplift bras , expensive face creams and continue to fear and envy younger women . |
| 27 | Loch Morlich must have been stunningly beautiful once , before the picnic tables and dinghies arrived , and at least the wonderful Scots pines that surround it have survived and are now protected . |
| 28 | Nowhere is it easier to blackmail than in the criminal underworld and the grey areas of conduct that surround it . |
| 29 | Its delightful situation in a wide fertile valley framed by the twin craggy peaks of the Mythen standing behind is particularly picturesque when the cherry orchards that surround it are smothered in spring blossom . |
| 30 | A patch of darkness in a far comer seemed somewhat darker than the less dark darkness that surrounded it . |