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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With practised twists of his fork the gardener spread a small pile of stable manure around the strawberry plants . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed , Mercury is in a form of synchronous rotation around the Sun . |
| 14 | It rests on a massive plinth of carboniferous limestone around the 1300-ft contour , this being based at valley level on impervious rock . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | ( John Searle , the Reith Lecturer in 1984 , built up a critique of computational psychology around considerations such as these . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 24 | Where Einstein broke through the previously accepted notions of space and time and re-ordered the fundamental concepts of established physics around the single constant of the velocity of light , Barth undertook a comparable reorientation of theology around the single centre of Jesus Christ . |
| 25 | Twenty-six percent of the full-time farms had identified and developed potential sources of extra income around the farm . |
| 26 | From a distance her eyes are dark black but if you look closely you see a ring of dark brown around the pupil . |
| 27 | As the extent of drift-net fishing around southern Europe became more apparent , public outrage grew . |
| 28 | And as I watched him hurl handfuls of salt round the ring as a prelude to hurling handfuls of Japanese wrestler around the heads of the spectators , I could feel my heart begin to beat behind my nightie and the partisan words begin to form on my open lips : ‘ Tear ‘ is ‘ ead off , Sall ! |
| 29 | This is a major step forward in preserving one of the country 's significant Expansion Scheme airfields , and shows hope for several more sites of aeronautical heritage around the UK . |
| 30 | This is a fitting tribute to the standards of basic training around the country . |