Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Socialist or Tribune hardly commented at all on the local government funding of lesbian and gay projects , the Haringey backlash or the debate around heterosexism . |
| 2 | There is of course a continuing controversy over whether the bureaucratic bourgeoisie of senior military , civil , party , co-operative and industrial administrators constitute a distinct class ; or whether they merely form part of a larger and more differentiated social stratum ; whether such a class is dominant or subservient to metropolitan capital ; where the boundary around such a class should be drawn ; whether it is fully formed or not , and whether the power of the state is equivalent to the power of the bureaucracy as a social entity ( Murray 1967 ; Leys 1976 ; Zieman and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 3 | The importance of food to the family can be as a social process or a centre around which all family communication and interaction takes place . |
| 4 | If you set an area outside which you can not sail then tag one another by doing a tack or a gybe around them , it can turn into a very good game where you can build up your own tactics . |
| 5 | I think that the tour around the factory will be quick , but you may see something that will set your mental cogs turning again . |
| 6 | The first is that the land around the Arnish site was owned by the Stornoway Trust , an elected body who received an undertaking from the subsidiary of Olsen Shipping when they took over the site , that only essential maintenance would be carried out on Sundays . |
| 7 | Officials of the Greenock Waterfront Heritage Association claim that the land around the dock has parliamentary protection . |
| 8 | Around Moortown , on the Western side of the lough , some 200 million tonnes of lignite have been indicated but there is some evidence that the deposit around Moortown may contain at least the same amount as the Crumlin deposits . |
| 9 | He clearly hoped and expected that the consensus around his foreign policy would rub off on the presidency , reinforcing perceptions of its national and non-partisan function . |
| 10 | Catriona wiped down the last of her tables and suddenly realised that the conversation around her had stopped . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's such a relief to get out of the starched uniform and the black stockings , ’ she said loudly so that the crowd around us could hear . |
| 12 | Feel that you are protected within this sphere of light ( like the yolk within an egg ) and that the energy around you is unbroken , especially over your head . |
| 13 | At some stage she was aware that the room around them had emptied . |
| 14 | Most species also squirt the oil at intruders as a form of defence so that the ground around the nest becomes impregnated with it . |
| 15 | They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it . |
| 16 | Since they extract heat from the food inside , and since the compressor and fans generate heat , it soon becomes apparent that the area around a poorly ventilated refrigerator can quickly become hot . |
| 17 | If however er the panel differs with my view on that then I would certainly say that the area around Tadcaster could not satisfactorily accommodate a self contained settlement of the order that is proposed without serious damage to the landscape . |
| 18 | As she came closer he saw it was a scar , the scar tissue even more white than the skin around it . |
| 19 | Here you find clubs and schools like Associated Flying School , Paraparaumu Flight Training and Welair , with fleets of Pipers and Cessnas operating in skies less crowded than the air around the capital . |
| 20 | George pulled her towards a large hole that was blacker than the night around it . |
| 21 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 22 | He could see , moreover , that the Galapagos were much younger than the continent around which he had been travelling . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , however , Britain 's imitation of Hollywood was proving to be built on ground more insecure than the area around the San Andreas fault . |
| 24 | ALTHOUGH the world around us here in Milton Keynes at any rate has become , forgive the word , technological , nobody knows damn all about science . |
| 25 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
| 26 | Each time a measurement is made the program checks that a strip around the reference strip has at most a small number of ON pixels in it . |
| 27 | And as Mike Rowbottom reports , it seems that a trawl around the attic can turn out to be very profitable . |
| 28 | It was more than a kilometre around the islands from the lighthouse to the ship , and every wave , every rock was different and dangerous . |
| 29 | If the air around the St Lawrence Ground is thick with optimism , the rise of Mark Ealham has much to do with that . |
| 30 | I should have warned you that regularly as clockwork , whenever he stays in this club , he checks if the haddock is finnan , if the skin around the black pudding is made of hog 's intestines and so on . |