Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has confirmed my belief in the snowball effect around EOP issues , but also made me aware of , and have strength to cope with , backlashes — such as the question ‘ which group or interest are you representing ? ’ |
| 2 | This acted as the literature focus around which seven learning tasks were devised . |
| 3 | It 's essential we can move the monitoring team around the site quickly and that they can interpret their findings immediately . |
| 4 | Things that I mentioned yesterday , you need to be able to er , manage effectively all these things like temperature , the noise level around you . |
| 5 | She could see that the captain believed all this — there was certainty in the peacock imminence around the woman 's curly hair — but whether she herself could accept it she was n't so sure . |
| 6 | The juxtaposition of seemingly disparate objects ; the distortion of scale ; the vaguely poetic resonances ( the wedding ring around the finger , the fingers on the piano keys etc. ) all contribute to the enigma of the images at once puzzling and yet trite . |
| 7 | The Carrion swoop around the adventurers , but make no attempt to carry anyone off . |
| 8 | Where the implementation of such strategic highs is in question the centre will limit the action space around interpretability and local discretion . |
| 9 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 10 | The force field around him is filled , not with the echoes of computer keys tapping and the fall-out from easy patter , but with the flickering after-images that are the legacy of a living icon and a once-great player . |
| 11 | At an earlier stage the council had accepted the architects ' proposal to replace the chainlink fencing around the adjacent churchyard with cast-iron railings of period appearance . |
| 12 | In contrast no clear footprints are evident with the sequence ( ATT ) 4 CG(AAT) 4 , though there is some alteration in the cleavage pattern around the central GA . |
| 13 | Although I know little of Madrid , I do know that the ring road around it is best driven with the accelerator pedal through the floor , like all those maniacal Spanish drivers in front and behind you , the steering wheel gripped tightly , eyes shut and prayers in profusion to the Almighty for safe exit from the maelstrom . |
| 14 | ‘ In his letter of July 6 following the meeting , the BAe chairman , Professor Roland Smith , called for the removal of the ring fence around Rover capital allowances , capital losses , and trading losses , and asked the DTI to intervene with the Inland Revenue for ‘ written rulings in advance to certain proposals to be made by BAe with a view to optimising the tax benefits ’ , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 15 | However , the discovery of an extensive hot-spring system on the rift floor around the eastern flanks suggests that Namarunu could still be significantly hot at depth . |
| 16 | I had heard that often enough , especially among the horse fraternity around Darrowby . |
| 17 | For the design photographed on the facing page , I chose the frame first because I was so attracted by its marble effect and the inlay banding around the frame . |
| 18 | Frowning , she twisted the topaz ring around her finger . |
| 19 | She hesitated , winding the coils of the telephone wire around her finger , adding with a frosty note of sarcasm , ‘ At least , no , that 's not true . |
| 20 | Having bought West Dean with their profits from the law , the Lewkenors built up a considerable wealth from the corn trade around Chichester and then took over as M.P.s for the city . |
| 21 | Kate dug them in the meadow grass around the trees in the orchard ( which has only one fruiting tree ) , accompanied now by just two huge sentimental wolfhounds , Petra and Titan , which ‘ trundle about ’ following wherever she goes . |
| 22 | Dunn became the core business around which the group was built . |
| 23 | By day this means that the sun terrace around the pool is a sun-worshippers paradise — the only occasional movement being the trip to the poolside bar for a little light refreshment or a game of pool . |
| 24 | the sun terrace around the pool stretches from the back to the front of the hotel so you can catch the sun all day . |
| 25 | Several details have been omitted and I shall say nothing about the way Venus and the Sun move around their orbits , except that the point O on Venus 's orbit always lies between the Earth ( E ) and the Sun ( S ) , that V moves around O , and O and S move around the Earth . |
| 26 | Altogether , during the outward voyage and the return passage around Cape Horn , Gould , as he described in his introduction to the Birds of Australia , ‘ was enabled to obtain nearly forty species of petrel , being the finest collection of Procellaridae ever brought together ’ , as well as examining and preserving numerous other species that came by chance to hand . |
| 27 | The sharpening of the generalization gradient around a stimulus was in some way a consequence of the processes responsible for the formation of the S-R links but was not thought to be itself associative in nature . |
| 28 | The percentage variation around the mean for [ C ] -PEG concentrations was 2.6 ( 0.2 ) % confirming that steady state conditions were indeed obtained . |
| 29 | At the start of your diving day , just press the face button once and watch the bar graph around the perimeter of the display countdown while the DataMax Sport zeroes itself to your current altitude , checks all internal functions and battery power . |
| 30 | Support groups were located on the shop floor around the high-performance teams which they served . |