Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appear to have acquired mining rights from Muncaster in that area around Tilberthwaite . |
| 2 | Once the first point has been identified the remaining points are entered in clockwise order around the zone boundary . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | The increase in carp-scaring activity around the banks has forced the carp to feed at the greatest distance from the activity , and the angler who can cast the furthest , within reason , stands the best chance of success . |
| 5 | Discuss whether the planet is in synchronous rotation around the Sun . |
| 6 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 7 | Moreover , if the Moon was already in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and if there was more spare material between the Earth and the Moon than beyond the Moon , then the rather greater number of large basins on the near side than on the far side can be explained . |
| 8 | This was sufficiently close to the sidereal orbital period of 87.97 days for it to be generally concluded that Mercury was in synchronous rotation around the Sun , and therefore that the sidereal axial period was also 87.97 days . |
| 9 | In another case around this time we can see how different newspapers use familiar but different tags to identify a particular ‘ sex beast ’ . |
| 10 | Position smaller leaves at three and six o'clock , then continue in this way around the clockface until you have made a bed of leaves . |
| 11 | The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme . |
| 12 | For example we can compare the frames of satellites in free fall around different stars . |
| 13 | Egg banks are appearing in Singapore and the United States , and with over 10,000 embryos in deep freeze around the world , even mainstream critics are worried about stockpiling and unscrupulous trafficking . |
| 14 | Despite an official ban , from 1982 to 1989 West German companies supplied Iraq with arms and the technology to help make nuclear weapons , poison gas , and missiles , in all worth around DM1 billion ( $600m ) . |
| 15 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 16 | Apply the film over the damaged area , pressing in firm contact around the edges . |
| 17 | It is in an idyllic spot and reached from the winding , narrow lane to Sheepscombe , in beautiful countryside around the little village of Cranham , high in the valley above Painswick . |
| 18 | One shows drapery-folds stacked in a way , based on observation , that becomes regular in Greek art around the middle of the second half of the century , but it is almost impossible to believe that the original date of these carvings is so late . |
| 19 | I also want to address two more complex issues in textual and sexual theory : firstly , the political implications of poststructuralist attempts to discredit notions of authorial agency ; and secondly , the related debates in gay theory around what have come to be known as the poles of ‘ essentialism ’ and ‘ social constructionism ’ ( terms I will elaborate on later ) . |
| 20 | If a pipe has frozen , it can be thawed out with a hairdrier or by wrapping towels soaked in hot water around it . |
| 21 | She noticed a pile of yellowed newspapers under the opposite ledge , and a rusty trowel and fork , and a ball of green twine wound in criss-cross pattern around a stick . |
| 22 | The lesser rorqual ( or minke , as it is called in Norway ) is the largest of the cetaceans likely to be met with in inshore water around Shetland . |
| 23 | You can be just as dead in this orchard as in any other around the village . |
| 24 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
| 25 | I spent the rest of the evening with my relatives in close rank around me , hoping nobody would notice the idiot in the middle with two completely different shoes . |
| 26 | In the majority of houses there are two different types of hot water : one which is in continuous circulation around the radiators of the central heating system , and one which comes out of the hot water taps in the bathroom and kitchen . |
| 27 | If plates are regarded as rigid caps involved in relative motion around a sphere their movement can be analysed in terms of specific geometric controls . |
| 28 | After the declines in organized stealing around the turn of the century , the number of cattle thefts known to the authorities remained at a low level , with some fluctuations , until the onset of the world depression in 1930 ( Table 3.5 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ SEABASS is in plentiful supply around the islands in late summer . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the cast some in inexplicable garb convorted in anarchic fashion around the limited stage . |