Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was crammed with the bric-à-brac of kingship , the usual gifts from brother heads of state around the world : dolls in glass cases , a vivarium , two portraits of George Bush , seals of visiting warships , a porcelain plate from the Republic of China ( which keeps a one-man embassy in Nuku'alofa ) , a map of the moon presented by Mr Reagan , statuettes , umbrellas , a humidor and any number of sets of engraved Waterford glass . |
| 2 | ‘ Often they 'll decide to photograph , say , a couple of people , but they 'll include acres of space around which they do n't want , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Last September , in an effort to reconcile the genuine nature conservation aspirations of various wildlife groups with the Port 's need for expansion , the Harbour Commissioners reached agreement with the major nature conservation bodies in the Province to preserve one of the Kinnegar lagoons as a bird sanctuary along with approximately 70 acres of land around the North end of Belfast City Airport 's runway for development as a nature park . |
| 4 | ‘ And for your debut you 're ‘ developing ’ — ' the word dripped acid ‘ — the acres of land around me ? ’ |
| 5 | Eight of them stand derelict , as do acres of land around them . |
| 6 | Yet as the tensions inherent in the repeal movement have already shown , this feminist discourse was itself caught in hierarchies of power around sex , retaining strong links with the environmentalist regime of social disciplining . |
| 7 | But when Marc 's body was found there were traces of petrol around his feet . |
| 8 | He/she is 5″ long and pure white in colour with slight traces of pink around the stomach and head . |
| 9 | Could you please identify and date this copper alloy or brass phoenix , which has traces of iron around the fixing hole on the base ? |
| 10 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 11 | International law and the Geneva conventions apply only to the endless cases of aggression around the world , with the US , Britain and Israel being some of the main provocateurs in the aggressors ' camp . |
| 12 | The speaker 's vocal cords vibrate , making the molecules of air around the chords vibrate as well . |
| 13 | She looked up at Quiss , who stood , fists clenched , glaring at the distant , empty doorway , He turned , whirled round to look down at her , the scraps of fur around him flying out " Your answer , lady . " |
| 14 | Even before the eighteenth century there existed various forms of development around the old Chiswick Parish Church of St. Nicholas , such as the first Elizabethan ‘ Burlington Arms ’ ; Vine House ; Pages Yard-Ferry House-Brampton House and the cottages in Fishermen 's Place , also fronting the river , Bedford House ( which included Eynham House ) , Said House and Cottages ; Thames View ; Lingard House ; Red Lion House ; Prospect Cottages also Walpole House , where Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemain , created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670 , lived in her later years . |
| 15 | While most of the neighbours favoured Spanish-style architecture , and their gardens rioted with purple bougainvillaea and pink oleanders , the sombre , towering hedges of yew around the Lewis house looked distinctly foreign . |
| 16 | Many Catfish are crepuscular , that is to say they are most active during the hours of twilight around dawn and dusk . |
| 17 | She saw the tension and fear that was putting lines of stress around the other woman 's eyes and mouth and squeezing her hands into tight , pale fists . |
| 18 | There were lines of concentration across his wide , high forehead , and lines of sadness around his mouth . |
| 19 | He was looking a little pale and the lines of strain around his mouth betrayed the pain his arm was giving him . |
| 20 | He lay , propped up by pillows , his face a slaty waste of sagging flesh , with lines of tension around the mouth and dull eyes . |
| 21 | Prior to this , parachute and helibore raiding tasks will take place on pockets of enemy around Safra and on adjacent islands ( other training areas ) . |
| 22 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 23 | Colonies were introduced by sowing pinches of seed around the borders in late April . |
| 24 | The zones of vegetation around the earth were determined by temperature and rainfall , and within each zone the plants all possessed similar adaptations to the conditions . |
| 25 | Bob bent down , too , and moved discreetly about picking up the more obviously feminine articles of clothing around the floor . |
| 26 | The echinoderms , on the other hand , have a larva that is quite different , with a twist to its structure and winding bands of cilia around it . |
| 27 | She tried to rip herself away from him then , but his arms were like bands of iron around her . |
| 28 | It sounds pretty good and it would be around about May the twenty first twenty second , so it would be after the football season has finished er so we 'd have a tour of Old Trafford , the Manchester United football ground behind the scenes , go to the special museum there , see all of their trophies , do something similar at Anfield the following morning and in the afternoon on the Saturday go to Granada T V studios and er on the Sunday we 'll be going er around Liverpool and their various er little places of nostalgia around the er the Beatles . |
| 29 | The most common advice is to place large pieces of furniture around the sides of a room but there are exceptions . |
| 30 | This cleaning session is going to be a ‘ major ’ one , so you need a bit of time and certain pieces of equipment around you . |