Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are the inside board and have an overlap over the board outside you at two board lengths before the mark , you are entitled to the inside position around the mark . |
| 2 | According to the French Minister of Health ( who stepped in when attempts were made by the anti-abortion lobby around the world to stop it being sold ) , this pill is the ‘ moral property of women ’ . |
| 3 | In the catalogue John House quoted Monet 's description of the painted light around the snowy haystacks as an enveloping veil . |
| 4 | There has also been a change in the holiday habits of the Madeirans themselves , who used to retire to their summer villas at Monte or Santo da Serra to escape the heat or flocked to the rocky shoreline around Funchal to bathe every day . |
| 5 | This basalt plateau has been tilted and parts have been faulted downwards to form the low land around Lough Neagh and in the River Bann valley . |
| 6 | The political activity around Clause 28 was one of the few occasions when lesbians and gay men have worked together and successfully expressed their anger . |
| 7 | Crowned in Holyrood abbey rather than Scone because of the rebellious atmosphere around Perth and the southern Highlands , James II was left nominally in the care of his mother . |
| 8 | By the turn of the century , the central industrial area around Moscow , the north-western area around St Petersburg , the major cities of Poland , and the Ukraine employed over 60 per cent of all workers . |
| 9 | There were clashes in Sarajevo , the Bosnian capital , and surrounding areas and in the north-western region around Bosanski Brod ( mainly between Serbs and Croats ) . |
| 10 | The goods were then taken back to Mansha 's home where his girlfriend heard the men and saw Randhawa throwing the stolen jewellery around the kitchen . |
| 11 | Gathered fabric can be fixed at the wall top to a curtain track screwed in place , and at the lower edge around curtain wire screwed to the top edge of the skirting . |
| 12 | The good news for everyone is that aerobic walking has the greatest effect around the hips and thighs where fat tends to accumulate , particularly in women . |
| 13 | The economic recession around the world was not generally helpful to precious metal prices . |
| 14 | That being so , it might be argued that Alcester enjoyed an importance , above that of most small towns , for the rural area around it , providing not only its goods and services , but also the accommodation and ancillary buildings for the farmers of the neighbourhood . |
| 15 | She pulled the grubby negligee around her bony body and opened the door , a wide professional smile on her face . |
| 16 | The high-gloss blue around the cooker is used for dramatic impact |
| 17 | the right expertise around him . |
| 18 | After cleaning and testing , fit the insulating jacket around the sides and over the top . |
| 19 | He leaned back against the wall , oblivious to the raucous din around us . |
| 20 | Its near presence is rather overpowering and intimidating yet it is softened by the verdant greenery around its base . |
| 21 | He said Tania , 28 , was in ‘ a very distressed state ’ when she left the matrimonial home around midnight . |
| 22 | Elsecar is a mining village south of Barnsley , and has some interesting buildings of the nineteenth century around the former iron works , but it is especially noted for the unique pumping engine preserved by the National Coal Board . |
| 23 | The speeches of Finbar O'Doherty and Eamonn Melaugh were more militant in tone but they did not demur from Hume 's denial of what had been the central purpose of the DHAC — the unity of the working class around a material grievance . |
| 24 | Anchovies — an important source of protein for animal feed — also mysteriously disappeared from the Peruvian coast around this time . |
| 25 | In the pleasant countryside around the roofless ruin of Courthill House ( not destroyed by fire as may be supposed but dismantled by its owner to avoid paying rates ) , the road turns sharply east to enter a ravine where waterfalls are to be seen , and then climbs over a low ridge to descend to Lochcarron . |
| 26 | Amid the raging debate around the asylum law , which the CDU has manipulated to account for Germany 's plight , voters also pinned the source of their frustrations and fears on the presence of ‘ too many ’ foreigners in Germany . |
| 27 | But in a place like this you 're more likely to turn from grand vacuous profundities to the rich detail around you — to the thriving , rare colony of alpine chickweed , for example , the lacy white delicacy of which brings this grey June landscape alive to the attentive eye . |
| 28 | The Christian soldiers spent a thirsty and sleepless night , their eyes smarting from the smoke which blew into their camp as the enemy systematically set fire to the dry scrub around them . |
| 29 | The rate on the free market around this time fluctuated between $1.00=2.6 cruzados and $1.00=3.2 cruzados . |
| 30 | Proportionately greater contribution to the cultural life around them . |