Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Iran , Morocco was ( and still is ) governed by an educated but often corrupt elite gathered around the person of the King . |
| 2 | Another posse gathered around the referee in the 56th minute after Young 's high challenge on Allen , for which the Wimbledon defender was booked . |
| 3 | The Black Country Museum is an open-air complex developed around the site of a group of lime-kilns , near the northern entrance to a tunnel on the Dudley Canal . |
| 4 | As with his other borrowing , the " log " — a four- to six-pound weight hung around the child 's neck — he was trying " to copy this progressive idea of the age " . |
| 5 | Fighting intensified around the republic on Sunday in advance of recognition by the EC . |
| 6 | A positive attitude , as shown here , is a prerequisite to each and every stroke played around the golf course . |
| 7 | Without wishing to alarm patients , I believe that we should do a comprehensive anonymised HIV seroprevalence study based around the medical practice of individuals recently found to be HIV infected . |
| 8 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir took steps in mid-November to crush internal opposition based around the labour movement . |
| 9 | Figs 2–3 ) This is the solo/interlude from Run To You , an extremely simple , yet effective piece based around the arpeggios of F♯sus4-F♯ , Esus4-E and Dsus4-D . |
| 10 | The Centre aims to encourage interdisciplinary research , as well as promoting research based around the existing interests of the staff most closely concerned with the activities of the Centre . |
| 11 | The new company also showed a new formula for a race car based around the 2-litre , four-cylinder , 16-valve engines that nearly all the big manufacturers have ( See sports news ) . |
| 12 | Distinct , medium coarse granular cytoplasmic staining concentrated around the nuclear lobes , with filamentous granular staining , forming a network in and around the neutrophil cytoplasm ( type 1 pattern ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 13 | He left biscuits , cake , pies , fruit and bowls of custard littered around the shelves , but it remained untouched . |
| 14 | Flipping lazily on to her back , she floated with her eyes closed for a moment , frowning as the sound of a door closing echoed around the pool . |
| 15 | Come evening and Kos comes alive with the action centred around the ‘ Street of Much Music ’ where bars and restaurants stand shoulder to shoulder broadcasting pop and rock , across the ruins opposite , loud into the night . |
| 16 | At Cambridge his research centred around the embryology , anatomy , and taxonomy of Polyzoa and Cephalodiscus , for which he was the first of the Cambridge zoologists to use the binocular microscope . |
| 17 | The New Democratic Party ( NDP , Kim Dae Jung pres. , the main opposition coalition constructed around the socialist Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) ) ; Democratic Party ( Lee Ki Taek pres. , formed in 1990 by RDP members opposed to the creation of the DLP ) , Civil Rights Party ( CRP , Kim Eui Taek pres . ) . |
| 18 | The " original " part of the design was a round bar welded around the top . |
| 19 | Are there displays of children 's work placed around the room and is the attention of governors drawn to them in a meaningful way ? |
| 20 | The solicitor 's gaze moved around the room once more as Price warmed to his task . |
| 21 | The boy searched around the area but the man , or whatever had been a human , had gone leaving the boy bewildered and confused . |
| 22 | The first stage took seven hours as the Prospector rattled around the edge of the Swan valley , tackling the gently undulating hill like a roller-coaster . |
| 23 | Galway , the Swedish company Terra Mining sampled around the local water supply . |
| 24 | All the forensic evidence showed in support of the theory was that the timer used in the Lockerbie bomb appeared to be identical with a batch sold to the Libyans three years before the bombing , and that the clothing wrapped around the bomb came from Malta , which had close links with Libya . |
| 25 | But more importantly in the competitive Sparc clone marketplace , Opentec is claiming to have beaten other workstation developers to the punch by preparing a machine based around the Texas Instruments Viking/SuperSparc chip . |
| 26 | The self-catering apartments form their own little village set around the palm-fringed swimming pool . |
| 27 | Thumping good read set around the dissolution of the monasteries . |
| 28 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 29 | The fire had been kicked over , though , the ash distributed around the floor . |
| 30 | This is the 65th anniversary of the first race in 1928 , and almost 80 cars from that era are expected to take part in a nostalgic three lap run around the course on June 4 , starting at 7pm . |