Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very important to have the greatest possible support around the expansion slot area . |
| 2 | There was never any extensive woodland around the site , only scattered birch , willow , hazel , and rowan scrub . |
| 3 | The economic recession around the world was not generally helpful to precious metal prices . |
| 4 | We 've got a rota system and that started at four this morning and is now full for the rest of the day , so there will be a strong presence around the building all day long . |
| 5 | He walked around the 2500 miles of Irish coast in record time before returning to England in March to begin his clockwise trek around the coast . |
| 6 | Technical advancement around the Group currently involves four major installations , either in the early stages of operation or undergoing test runs . |
| 7 | A private party , ’ he gave a swift and completely Eastern European look around the room and , almost imperceptibly , lowered his voice ; ‘ with some Friends . ’ |
| 8 | Cut off a narrow strip around the edge and use to line the dampened rim of the pie plate . |
| 9 | And if we look at the planets of our solar system , lo and behold , every single one of them is travelling at exactly the right velocity to keep it in its stable orbit around the Sun . |
| 10 | Once again Royal show fashions ranged between formal-summer-outfit-with-hat to skimpy suntop and shorts , but the lady who turned the most heads at the show was probably international visitor Isha Kamara as she made her stately progress around the show bearing her bag upon her head . |
| 11 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 12 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 13 | At least 36 people died in black political violence around the country . |
| 14 | At the height of the Teddy boy era the local cinema foolishly premiered Rock Around the Clock on bonfire Night . |
| 15 | In mid-December the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE , or the Tamil Tigers — the main Tamil insurgent group ) had routed the pro-IPKF Tamil National Army ( TNA ) in bloody fighting around the eastern port of Batticaloa [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 16 | Although the station was non-operational for a few years following the disaster it was fully operational again by April 1979 and since 1985 has had a modern Tyne class lifeboat on station to cover the wide stretch of north-east facing coast around the port . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the catalogue John House quoted Monet 's description of the painted light around the snowy haystacks as an enveloping veil . |
| 19 | I share her desire to ensure that the channel tunnel becomes a tool for economic regeneration around the country . |
| 20 | First , in the earlier period there were wide margins of discretion within an extremely informal mode of policing — the proverbial clip around the ear , or the dreaded flick of the Edwardian policemen 's rolled cape — which has been replaced by the more likely possibility of prosecution , or the issue of formal caution . |
| 21 | It is a devious route around the coastal fringes , no direct way across the intervening wilderness of mountains being possible except on foot by strong walkers . |
| 22 | An electric current creates a magnetic field around the wire through which it flows . |
| 23 | The earth 's magnetic field changes in strength and direction over time , and by measuring the local magnetic field around the clay , an estimate of when the clay was last fired can be calculated . |
| 24 | It was a different story around the rest of the country , where business was brisk and supermarkets reported the busiest day of the year . |
| 25 | I have n't had a proper look around the market for I looked |
| 26 | His wife remarried and his rather dismal son , William Winslade , is recorded as having drifted in poverty as an itinerant harpist around the great houses of Cornwall . |
| 27 | We proposed that arrays of dimeric met repressor molecules bind to these extended operator regions , with a stoichiometry of one repressor per met box , to form a left-handed superhelix around the DNA . |
| 28 | Cumming had a fascination with most forms of transport , driving his Rolls at high speed around the streets of London . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If you do get up later and find an old lady around the house , then — ’ |