Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or feel the wrench of a rope around their neck ? |
| 2 | At dusk you will be warned to leave by the ringing of a handbell around the tombstones . |
| 3 | IBM Corp seems to have whipped up as much of a storm around its head with its plunge into digital delivery of music to record stores as Alan Sugar has attracted with his bizarre sacking of Terry Venables as chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur Plc : IBM 's joint venture with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp has triggered ‘ swift , fierce and almost entirely negative ’ reaction from the music industry , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ IBM and Blockbuster made a major gaffe by issuing announcements without contacting the record companies , ’ said Michael Schulhof , chairman of Sony Corp 's Sony USA ; Warner Music Group talked of arrogance , MCA Music Group said it had begun working on its own electronic distribution system , and even Polygram , 80% owned by Philips Electronics NV , which also has 6% of Blockbuster , described the announcement as premature . |
| 4 | Echo Memories will offer £25 to the best 1992 version of a Tour Around the Pubs and Hotels of Darlington . |
| 5 | And an observer in that small room would have noticed the suspicion of a smile around his loose and slightly purplish lips . |
| 6 | On Oct. 3 , the rebel forces of the National Guard left the television tower in Tbilisi which had served as their headquarters , and there were reports of a battle around the Tbilisi Sea ( a lake 10 km from the capital ) between rebel and loyal forces , with five injured and possibly three dead . |
| 7 | In Southport recently we had planned a 3Oft ( 9m ) Portakabin to serve as part of a wall around a car park . |
| 8 | This gives the ratio of Venus 's mass to that of the Sun , and the mass of the Sun is obtained from the dominant elliptical part of the orbit of any planet just as the mass of a planet can be determined from the orbit of a satellite around it . |
| 9 | There has n't been a word in the papers nor any hint of a rumour around town , so that 's it as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 10 | Otherwise , ‘ a stranger detraining and observing the vacant appearance of a town around the station where there should be bustle would think naturally that something serious was the matter ’ . |
| 11 | To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm in favour of a walk around some greenery myself , ’ he stated , and casually threw in , ‘ Care to come ? ’ |
| 13 | Then they lay like the spokes of a wheel around it and heard the sound of the river and the night fowl before drifting off to sleep . |
| 14 | An old man shuttled after her and hooked a horticultural implement of a hand around her arm . |
| 15 | And working this high up the crew was thankful there was n't too much of a wind around Gloucester docks today . |
| 16 | The pattern of adhesiveness on the wall has a high point in the form of a band around the wall and so this is where the cells , through repeated explorations by their long filopodia , come to rest . |
| 17 | The densely clustered flowers have five pink petals , at the rear end of a tube around which are the green sepals . |