Example sentences of "around the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another normal step in the process of grieving , one which often follows closely on numbness , is anger , often just free-floating anger without specific focus and likely to last until around the anniversary of the death which caused it . |
| 2 | The saturated planks are autoclaved under pressure ; as their internal water boils to compressed steam , the resin is deposited around the fibres of the wood . |
| 3 | Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance have centred around the concept of labelling , with the term labelling theory sometimes used to refer to the Interactionist perspective on rule-breaking . |
| 4 | A real science is now growing up around the concept of the human window , while there is no evidence or logical reason to accept Fredkin 's supposition at all . |
| 5 | The courses would be organized around the concept of a module , which represents sixty hours of ‘ class-contact ’ . |
| 6 | Inequalities in health status centring around the concept of social class are an enduring and pervasive feature of British society . |
| 7 | Serge Moscovici , who has been both the Marx and the Lenin of this revolutionary movement , has advocated a fundamental reorientation of social psychology around the concept of social representations . |
| 8 | But there has in recent years been a more influential convergence , both in studies of art and in communications studies , around the concept of ‘ forms ’ . |
| 9 | Brittan correctly observed in the late 1960s that there were no differences between left and right in British politics on most important domestic issues , except ‘ around the concept of ‘ equality ’ . |
| 10 | All the individual professionals , managers and planners , together with the local people the service was designed to serve , shared a common vision as to what they were aiming for , often based around the concept of providing a more ‘ normal ’ home life for patients who had previously lived in an institution . |
| 11 | Europe should be built around the concept of European citizenship , with each citizen entitled to certain defined basic rights — political rights , rights of ownership , rights at work and social entitlements . |
| 12 | The ensuing discussion is based around the concept of value : whether Helen is worth the daily blood with which she is painted . |
| 13 | Many theoretical investigations of turbulence have been developed around the concept of homogeneous , isotropic turbulence — turbulence of which the statistical properties do not vary with position and have no preferred direction . |
| 14 | The types of issues that are involved concern not only theoretical issues revolving around the construction of social reality , conceptualization of personality and how humans process social information , but also methodological problems such as questionnaire and inventory design , for example in personality assessment . |
| 15 | On leaving the Ayrshire Yeomanry and asking for a Middle East posting , he had sailed on the Queen Mary around the Cape of Good Hope and had docked at Durban . |
| 16 | The decisive decade for exploration had been the 1490s : Columbus reached the West Indies ( which at first he took to be a part of Japan ) , Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean , and Pope Alexander VI recognized that Spain 's new interest in expansion would clash with Portugal 's existing claims unless they were defined quickly . |
| 17 | The route was officially kept secret , but a Greenpeace ship shadowed the freighter through the Atlantic Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope . |
| 18 | He had guided her expertly around the monuments of Greece and Italy , the summer after the baby . |
| 19 | In the early 1950s an English visitor to Russia observed that beggars were still to be found around the terminals of Moscow , ‘ often young men with one or more limbs missing ’ . |
| 20 | Traditional wisdom bases ‘ a good diet ’ around the consumption of three meals a day of which breakfast is seen as the most important . |
| 21 | He was , he said , one of that small group of political eccentrics who browsed around the dustbins of policy hoping occasionally to come across the word ‘ science ’ : |
| 22 | There seems to be a shroud of mystery wrapped around the existence of so many artists that must , in part , stem from the romanticised time when artistic practice was mainly reserved for self-supporting male painters and sculptors , or those few working under patronage . |
| 23 | Eventually , this was joined by nearly every county authority around the sweep of the Severn Estuary , from Devon to West Glamorgan . |
| 24 | They had descended the causeway which wound around the plug of rock upon which Kinsai was built , and now they were close to a stream which ran as a tributary into the D'neistr , the river which flowed north to the Sea of Tears . |
| 25 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 26 | Elective 8 : normally SYMAP leaves a gap around the boundaries of each country . |
| 27 | Frankie peered around the angle of the wall , trying to measure the length of her chain before judging it safe to enter by the back door . |
| 28 | If the mid-nineteenth-century witnessed the increasingly polarized representations of women around the definitions of asexual purity/immorality , these oppositions also had a profound impact on class-specific forms of male sexuality . |
| 29 | There , or rusting around the bones of the dead . |
| 30 | His fingers were like a circle of steel around the bones of her wrist as he began moving again . |