Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were supposed to take off for Malta about 12 hours after leaving Gibraltar but , because of bad weather and ( I think ) intelligence reports about enemy activity around Sardinia and Sicily , we retraced our course and eventually took off about 36 hours from Gibraltar . |
| 2 | Some months before the 1983 council elections the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights group in Nottingham initiated a debate among the lesbian and gay groups in the city , resulting in the publication of a charter , ‘ A Fair Deal For Gays ’ , which included proposals for council action around employment practices , housing , leisure services , etc . |
| 3 | Out of the drone of insect life around us I could distinguish the sound of an aeroplane engine . |
| 4 | The most effective prevention for leeches was not our trouser elastics , as we had believed , but a squirt of insect repellent around the tops of our boots . |
| 5 | Relations with the USA which had generally been amicable under the Bhutto government , underwent a serious crisis in October 1990 following the suspension of aid worth around US$570 million on grounds that Pakistan was engaged in a nuclear weapons programme [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 6 | This has been surprisingly little used even in the US , and the recent work by the CLE on it has had considerable impact in changing the direction of labour economics around the world . |
| 7 | If you conceive the , the organism has a temporary packaging as a kind of protein coat around its , its genes , which T four bacteria clearly is , then once the genes have been passed on , the packaging is no further use and can be discarded . |
| 8 | The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , has rejected planning proposals for the use of green-belt land around the city of Chester for housing and industrial development . |
| 9 | In an old house , it may be that gaps in the skirting boards are the chief causes of heat loss and/or draughts , in which case a quick brandishing of wood filler around the home will solve that problem . |
| 10 | For example , in one case a number of Staffordshire businessmen were keen to make a bid for a £75 million contract for the construction of security fencing around a British military base in Germany . |
| 11 | The check in some early pianos and the development of piano technique around the turn of the 18th century |
| 12 | The pattern of population redistribution around the country 's metropolitan regions is best seen as an evolving one ( Champion , 1983 ) , though the broad picture is one of absolute loss of population from the older urban cores in favour of the newer suburbs and ( increasingly ) the surrounding towns . |
| 13 | Later other improvements came along such as putting a cylinder of safety glass around the flame to improve the illumination , and covering the gauze by a metal bonnet to protect it from accidental damage . |
| 14 | You took a taxi and I was discovered with a length of picture cord around my neck … ’ |
| 15 | Recent studies using magnetic resonance imaging in patients with atlantoaxial subluxation have shown an inflammatory mass of granulation tissue around the odontoid arising from the synovial lining of the articulations . |
| 16 | Communist influence was strongest in the trade unions and amongst unemployed , and in the period of union militancy around the miners ' strike many of the anxieties about extremism were aired . |
| 17 | TFIIF , possibly along with TFIIE , might be involved in a change of DNA conformation around the initiation site that is induced by binding of RNA polymerase II to the preformed DAB complex and represents a transition from a closed to an open complex ( 30 ) . |
| 18 | Wood expands and contracts with temperature and humidity changes , so it 's important to leave a gap of ½″ per board yard of floor space around the edges of the room when you lay new wood flooring . |
| 19 | a Human skull on one table has a circle of copper banding around its forehead . |
| 20 | I came and started tidying up bits and pieces of cut-off material around my mum on the floor . |
| 21 | It may also explain the occurrence of nitrogen fixation around sea shores where there is constant turbulence produced by the waves continually breaking on the shore . |
| 22 | Yes , they do exist , if only briefly : to entertain or more usually frustrate the human porcupines who come out of summer hibernation around Christmas . |
| 23 | A significant proportion of fringe land around London , for example , is derelict and many of the more attractive sites are inaccessible for one reason or another . |
| 24 | Also er saw er Nick last week and he 's agreed that we can offer a similar sort of training scheme around the force people apply just for er a one day course so what I 'm saying to any community affairs staff |
| 25 | He scrutinized the tiny facets of devastation aswirl around the eye-screen . |
| 26 | Perhaps even radiating some protective aroma of brood empathy around herself ? |
| 27 | A second study examined the higher incidence of childhood leukemia around the nuclear weapons establishments at Aldermaston and Burghfield . |
| 28 | Fears that Hamilton 's prospecting was just the thin end of the wedge were confirmed when the Government announced that many other sensitive blocks of sea bed around the Welsh coastline were being considered for licensing under its 14th Oil/Gas Round . |
| 29 | Coonts may not have got lost once in three months of eyeball navigation around the Lower 48 , but his writing could do with a position fix . |
| 30 | Various researchers point to the potential phytotoxic effect on trees of high concentrations of sulphur dioxide around industrial areas ; to the higher acidities ( e.g. pH of 3.5 ) of occult precipitation ( mist , fog ) from clouds enveloping high-altitude forests for considerable portions of the year ; to the increasing concentrations of photochemical oxidants ( PAN , ozone ) in Europe ; to the increase in oxides of nitrogen and hydrocarbons from motor vehicles ; and to synergistic effects between many of these forms of pollution . |