Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitfall traps are placed in various sorts of sites around the garden to catch ground beetles , spiders , harvestmen , woodlice , centipedes and millipedes . |
| 2 | You have many friends , and a very great deal of goodwill around you . |
| 3 | There was a great deal of gloom around the table . |
| 4 | This high incidence of viral infection is perhaps all the more surprising since there has not been a great deal of flu around this winter so far , and many sufferers no doubt believed that they were going to escape altogether . |
| 5 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 6 | When the ritual is finished , a ring of stone around the perimeter of the magic circle flies out of the ground and a huge spout of blood gushes outwards in a wave over the adventurers . |
| 7 | His ring of bone around her upper arm , the sound waves of his whispering , thrumming gently through her , raising her scalp , warming her ear , the laughter when she first began to speak , his glassy greenish gaze . |
| 8 | In the woman sensation is experienced through the clitoris and — although less intensely — in the first inch or so of the vagina ; there is also a ring of nerves around the mouth of the uterus which may or may not come into play . |
| 9 | And those skulls and crossbones are well done ; there 's no less than seven different sizes of inlays on this guitar , and although there 's a big ring of filler around each one , at least the filler matches the rosewood . |
| 10 | 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 . , |
| 11 | It is customary for workers to go collectively through the vines eradicating excess foliage , which improves the circulation of air around the vine and also reduces the risk of fungi developing . |
| 12 | In addition , the system , when compressed , allows for a greater circulation of air around the foot , keeping it cool and dry . |
| 13 | Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks . |
| 14 | Indeed , the bolder drawing of the Oceanus panel ( contrast the confusion of colour around the heads of the lion and stag ) is more suitable to this kind of portraiture — a style which depends on the strength and naturalism of the subject . |
| 15 | However , average sediment accumulation rates were again higher in the north ( 329.4164.3gm -2 yr -1 ) than the central ( 160.061.3gm -2 yr -1 ) and south basins ( 146.022.4gm -2 yr -1 ) , in part because of the concentration of settlement around Tzintzuntzan ( Fig. 1 ) during the late Postclassic . |
| 16 | Surrounded on three sides by railway , it is not suitable for housing because of the large concentration of industry around that area . |
| 17 | Do you know it is possible because of the fear of people around you , the fear of your peers , the fear of what men may say , of what your family will think , of what your work mates might say about you , it is possible to allow that fear to send you to hell . |
| 18 | The room was crammed with the bric-à-brac of kingship , the usual gifts from brother heads of state around the world : dolls in glass cases , a vivarium , two portraits of George Bush , seals of visiting warships , a porcelain plate from the Republic of China ( which keeps a one-man embassy in Nuku'alofa ) , a map of the moon presented by Mr Reagan , statuettes , umbrellas , a humidor and any number of sets of engraved Waterford glass . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if there were more than three spatial dimensions , the orbits of planets around the sun or electrons around a nucleus would be unstable and they would tend to spiral inward . |
| 20 | Liveried bearers carried trays of kebabs around the room . |
| 21 | Their new release , " Georgie Girl " , was climbing rapidly towards the top of the charts , and the idea of cameraman Bob Edwards was to shoot an evocative piece of film around Brandon Hill to illustrate the record . |
| 22 | If you do , then you may wish to dampen the open strings by wrapping a cloth or a piece of elastic around the neck , close to the nut . |
| 23 | Accompanying these kids were what appeared to be three extravagant South American transvestites in dresses , rouge and lipstick , one of whom had a used tampon on a piece of string around her neck . |
| 24 | They dangled on a piece of string around her neck . |
| 25 | ‘ I asked Sir John to burn it to the ground but Rachel played him like a piece of string around her finger . |
| 26 | And er you sort of pull the shoe over the sole and er then hit , my father would sort of shape a piece of leather around the sole of the shoe and then er he would sort of tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of cours tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of course would bend them over inside your shoe , just like a normal cobbler repairs shoe . |
| 27 | Wrap a piece of paper around the pipe to act as a guide and cut through using gentle strokes . |
| 28 | Wrap this piece of paper around the cake to check it covers it accurately . |
| 29 | She had n't eaten anything , just pushed a piece of ham around her plate to placate Penman and crumpled up a muffin . |
| 30 | ‘ Often they 'll decide to photograph , say , a couple of people , but they 'll include acres of space around which they do n't want , ’ he says . |