Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | I share her desire to ensure that the channel tunnel becomes a tool for economic regeneration around the country . |
| 2 | Answer guide : This question is looking for some discussion around the realization and prudence principles . |
| 3 | ERIKA RAN , mile after effortless mile around the park until dusk brought the bone-chilling mist ; then , in a loping run , under the great beech tree , home . |
| 4 | The staves can contain up to 80 screens full of bars and smooth scrolling of the screen makes for easy movement around your work , either up and down or side to side . |
| 5 | If they still wanted to expand their original business there are other ways of doing so : there might be scope for a small hotel at L'Auberge , for instance , or for outside catering around Chelmslow , or they might even capitalize on George 's knowledge of French wines by setting up an off-licence and specialist wine importation business . |
| 6 | The skills of the authorities in responding to stockmarket crashes , the spread of economic weight around the globe , the fact that the economic cycles of Japan and Germany seem unsynchronised with those of America and Britain , the role of taxes and public spending as automatic stabilisers in modern economies — all these are most reassuring . |
| 7 | He also kept two or three cows for the sustenance of the family , and so required two , three or four pieces of enclosed land around his house . |
| 8 | Cockburn 's approach is more determinist than that of Dearlove , who stresses the importance of political conflict around local government as one of the reasons for the reforms . |
| 9 | Old myths are , however , replaced by new as the combination of modern technology and advanced marketing techniques produce ever more elaborate and sophisticated examples of political image-building around minor personality cults , even in western democracies , aimed at obfuscating reality among the ignorant and gullible . |
| 10 | With practised twists of his fork the gardener spread a small pile of stable manure around the strawberry plants . |
| 11 | But Rosa Burger 's emergence is inextricably entwined with events that are far larger than any individual , yet deeply part of each person around her . |
| 12 | Ferguson now sports a tuft of facial hair around his lips and chin , permitted him by the Tannadice tablets of stone , but it will take more than a beard to signify maturity . |
| 13 | What happens is that on a high speed reach there is so much sideways pressure on the skeg that an area of low pressure around the skeg sucks air down and creates an air pocket around the fin. , therefore making it useless . |
| 14 | Indeed , it shares with it some elements of decoration , e.g. a band of wavecrest pattern around the central roundel . |
| 15 | Unless she is very fit , able to care for the garden and do decorating and other jobs of that kind around the house , she will miss his support in this way too . |
| 16 | The farmers visited were in Buskerud county , with five in the hill region just north of Drammen and five some 160km northwest of that city around Al , Gol , Torpo and Nesbyen . |
| 17 | In warmer climates , where conditions are often unsuitable for larval survival , the carrier animal is probably a more important source of pasture contamination and outbreaks of disease in lambs and kids are most likely to occur after a period of prolonged rain around the time of weaning . |
| 18 | Indeed , Mercury is in a form of synchronous rotation around the Sun . |
| 19 | It rests on a massive plinth of carboniferous limestone around the 1300-ft contour , this being based at valley level on impervious rock . |
| 20 | Garnons-Williams RN , an enthusiastic supporter of the raiding idea , found some ‘ crash ’ air-sea rescue boats for Dudley Clarke 's first raid , which was mounted on the night France surrendered , 23 June , with four landings along a 20-mile stretch of French coast around Boulogne . |
| 21 | Japan , which would be the only remaining IWC member in favour of whaling if Norway left , says that it plans to use this year 's meeting , to be held in Kyoto , to " press for the resumption of commercial whaling around Japan and in the northern Atlantic " . |
| 22 | ( John Searle , the Reith Lecturer in 1984 , built up a critique of computational psychology around considerations such as these . ) |
| 23 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 24 | Serge Moscovici , who has been both the Marx and the Lenin of this revolutionary movement , has advocated a fundamental reorientation of social psychology around the concept of social representations . |
| 25 | The denigration of office work as inferior , non-manual labour , has a key place in the sexual transformation of clerical work around the turn of the century . |
| 26 | In the course of a life-time , so many facts and sense inhibitions impinge upon our minds , that our brains have become selective , and we 're unconscious of much of this happening around us . |
| 27 | As long ago as the first century A.D. , the Roman author Pliny , in his monumental Natural History , suggested that placing branches of this shrub around an object would keep cats away from it . |
| 28 | In truth she was n't really interested in Taureg 's arrival , but anything that broke the self-imposed purdah of her existence was welcome , she supposed , for she still stood outside the real world , looking in ; a part of her still waited in Yeoman 's Lane and none of this strangeness around her was really happening . |
| 29 | He found the raking black horse that stood a head above the tough mountain ponies — Owen was a long-legged man , and liked a tall mount — and the knot of unmistakable knighthood around it . |
| 30 | Here , inferiority means that Friedman 's x per cent growth rule would imply greater fluctuations of real output around its natural level than would a policy of appropriately varying monetary policy as the economy moved into boom or recession . |