Example sentences of "their [noun sg] around [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Using genuine folk instruments such as armadillo charangos , pan pipes and caja and playing them splendidly , the group built their programme around the Bolivian seasons and the ritual divisions of the year . |
2 | His eyes glazed with grim courage uncharacteristic of his kind , his broad hands tightened their grip around the cleaver . |
3 | Furthermore , Coutts themselves were undergoing a change in policy , consolidating their business around the wealthy personal customer and shedding some of their ‘ high-risk ’ business accounts . |
4 | But more and more lucky people will be able to plan their retirement around the cash their parents leave them . |
5 | There were also gallery-graves , sometimes called Clyde cairns because of their prevalence around the Clyde estuary , and very much resembling Irish burial chambers in their rectangular construction and internal division into separate compartments . |
6 | This move formed the basis for the human sciences which , through their organization around the figure of man , once more brought about a unity to History . |
7 | The party are pictured enjoying a five-star lunch after their trip around the maltings with distilling director , ( standing ) , Buckie 's general manager , ; from Kentford and from Carnoustie . |
8 | They know their way around a wine list . |
9 | This use of diagrams enables students both to find their way around a text without losing themselves in the irrelevant detail of intensive reading , and also to identify parts without having to name them . |
10 | Now , after four years on the show , they know their way around a hosepipe , having tackled fire , flood and disaster on screen . |
11 | ‘ The paper was just getting too unwieldly , we needed to give our readers some help in finding their way around the paper , ’ says Mr Fontaine . |
12 | As a shoal of some other kind of fish swims past , the predatory trumpet fish moves into their midst and progresses with them as they make their way around the coral gardens . |
13 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
14 | They often found their way around the Gulf , worked out of recognition , into coffee pots , jewel boxes and jewellery . |
15 | Grammar explanations and practice exercises are rigorously signposted and cross-referenced to make sure students can find their way around the book . |
16 | In 1600 ocean voyages were a rarity in England , but by 1700 ordinary English ships were able to find their way around the Atlantic and Indian oceans with little difficulty , and the money that Charles spent on Greenwich was among the most useful items of government expenditure of his age . |
17 | From this point , individual circuit cables wend their way around the house , crossing ceilings and floors , and running up or down to light switches and socket outlets at convenient points . |
18 | The Old Town harbours a sundry collection of churches , mansions , synagogues , palaces and mosques , winding their way around the narrow lanes and hidden nooks , beckoning the adventurer into the shadows . |
19 | This is of little consequence to grubs and maggots , for they hold their interminable feasts out of sight of the rest of the world , gobbling their way around the heart of an apple or gnawing tunnels in wood , shielded by what they are eating . |
20 | Consider the following extract which aims to help students find their way around the parts of a textbook . |
21 | Indeed the ability of the newcomers to find their way around the local political system has often prompted the improvement of other rural amenities , albeit on a highly selective basis . |
22 | For those who have used soft chalk pastels and know their way around the tints I would advise loose pastels . |
23 | Besides , I 'd be too shy to ask the way from who had such an obvious contempt for children who still did n't know their way around the school . |
24 | She was miles away , her internal ears full of the roar of the Formula One engines as they screamed their way around the seventy testing , bumpy laps . |
25 | It is expected that the results of the research will have important implications for teaching visually impaired children how to find their way around the world and will be a beneficial contribution to contemporary mobility training . |
26 | What is needed is an adequate route map to enable everyone to find their way around the system ( Bergen , 1975 ) . |
27 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
28 | They had to pick their way around the rest of it , because the floors were mainly gone , although some big holes still had carpet laid across them . |
29 | They seem to be working their way around the main shopping areas of Britain over the last two years . |
30 | Dozens of the cars will wind their way around the scenic coastline on Friday . |