Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun pl] around " in BNC.

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1 The case centres around a Mr X , accused with several others of setting up a bogus merchant bank used to conduct fraudulent transactions .
2 This provides the compound curve necessary so that the rail curves around the back and upwards at the same time .
3 The play centres around the question of What Is Art .
4 Committees sprang up in the refugee concentrations around Israel 's new borders .
5 The action centres around animals in two charming pop-up books , Funny Business and Hocus Pocus , by Julie Lacome ( Walker , £6.99 each ) .
6 The action centres around the ‘ Land of the Green Isles ’ which consists of a series of small islands ( sounds familiar , eh ? ) .
7 Guy Sterne would be about as much fun to be with as one of the barracuda swimming in the coral reefs around the island .
8 This year there are going to be at least seven conferences , organised by the fan clubs around the country .
9 Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table .
10 The spin doctors around the lad Labour leadership have claimed that the links need to be changed .
11 Arrange all the cut vegetables around the bowl on a large platter .
12 He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds .
13 The plot centres around an aristocratic sportsman who in turn becomes the subject of a manhunt : he is alone against the world , but we are with him through every breathless paragraph .
14 Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July .
15 Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July .
16 A Tory councillor has called for an end to the row which broke out after Darlington council checks revealed faults in the crash barriers around the upper deck of the NCP car park in East Street .
17 James Cossins recalled ‘ the fun of the supper parties after filming all day in the baking heat of the sand dunes around Almeria , and the joy that ensued when , after a suitable amount of alcohol , dear Roy Kinnear could be persuaded to do his celebrated impression of a one-armed golfer ’ .
18 In terms of regional structural controls most of the auriferous deposits in the project area are spatially related to first-order faults and shear zones within the belt and along its margins ; to major anticlinal fold axial traces and limb shears ; or to the fracture envelopes around the major granitoid intrusions Follow-up geochemical field testing of soils for arsenic over selected targets outside the known gold mining districts was 60–70% successful in demonstrating that certain predicted structural settings would be mineralised .
19 Sunbeams from the myriad entrances around the walls criss-crossed the dusty gloom like amber rods in which a million golden insects had been preserved .
20 The burden he carried with such curious tenderness was a drawstring bag of soft leather , with some rigid shape within it , that filled his arms and was held jealously to his heart , the anchoring strings around one wrist for safety , as though he went in dread of loss .
21 As the water is added and the liner tightens , the anchoring weights around the pool are slowly released until the pool becomes full and the liner moulds to its exact shape .
22 Before serving , arrange the tortilla chips around the pie on top of the cheese .
23 Line the bottom of the basin with the small bread circle then arrange the bread slices around the sides .
24 Silvia was screaming defiance , her lovely face as pale as the parchment walls around her .
25 Hence , the quotation marks around the word ‘ doing ’ emphasize that it has a technical meaning in sociology , for lying behind the process is a body of common-sense and official police knowledge which informs the methods and practices according to which activities are done .
26 Dungannon Chamber of Trade and Commerce replaces the former Chamber of Trade , and the first major issue it will tackle is the continued closure of the security barriers around the town centre .
27 As she waited , she began to study the anchor cables around her .
28 This chapter is concerned with developing methods able to provide estimates of the confidence regions around GIS map-based outputs by taking into account certain selected sources of uncertainty affecting spatial databases .
29 Her work was extremely painful and very dangerous — the examination of corpses , daily visits to the body dumps around San Salvador , the taking of testimonies from relatives of the disappeared .
30 If the people from the hill farms around the loch foot could be mobilized , they would add a fierce thrust to the movement .
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