Example sentences of "of [noun sg] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 2 | As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone . |
| 3 | Here , we encounter the same pattern which so clearly distinguishes man from the apes — notable absence of canine-tooth dimorphism , prominent displays of hair around the face and neck of the male and , in the female , a secondary sexual display on the chest . |
| 4 | Not long ago a performer in Paris won some notoriety for employing her vagina to swallow , and then powerfully eject , table tennis balls and the history of the seamier side of nightlife around the world is littered with accounts of vaginas that have played harmonicas or smoked cigarettes . |
| 5 | Beyond that , however , there are clearly certain factors which have acted to throw a kind of cloak of invisibility around the semantic contribution made by syntactic constructions . |
| 6 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 7 | DameJanet ( Vaughan ) used to tell us about flying the flag of freedom around the world actually a good message to hear ! ’ |
| 8 | There was a tremendous crescendo of noise around the ground . |
| 9 | made lots of noise around the football table . |
| 10 | On the side which will hold the fixed panel , apply a thick bead of mastic around the inside of the jamb recesses , and up the joint with the jamb . |
| 11 | A critical review of literature around the notion of the military-industrial complex and that relevant from development economics will be made to formulate an appropriate theory for the mineral-energy complex . |
| 12 | While most of the neighbours favoured Spanish-style architecture , and their gardens rioted with purple bougainvillaea and pink oleanders , the sombre , towering hedges of yew around the Lewis house looked distinctly foreign . |
| 13 | Her fingers running through the ruff of fur around the cat 's neck tightened as Jehan spoke , and the cat yowled and it bit playfully at her hand . |
| 14 | He inspected the helmet , with its heavy crest and the circling ruff of fur around the rim ; his blow had cut the ruff and damaged the cheek guard . |
| 15 | Now this overround tends to be larger in fields with a large number of runners , and also tends to be larger in these popular races , so that at times when there 's lots of money around the bookies , of course , and we expect them to do this , are very careful to make sure that the odds are well in their favour , because on these races where there 's lots of money staked their risk is higher . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , within the variations and local conditions , if we are thinking in terms of a specifically televisual addition to the forms which the novelistic has taken since the Greek romance , the organization of narrative around the expectation of interruption seems to me to be central . |
| 17 | Staff in the West Midlands agreed yesterday to restrict radio use — the central issue in London — from Wednesday as part of an intensification of action around the country . |
| 18 | He lay , propped up by pillows , his face a slaty waste of sagging flesh , with lines of tension around the mouth and dull eyes . |
| 19 | The NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner , commented that " to see defence ministers who were in a sense at the heart of the Cold War confrontation sitting in a spirit of partnership around the same table is a remarkable and moving event " . |
| 20 | 1 So that you can hang the pomander , wind two pieces of tape around the orange at right angles to each other . |
| 21 | A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush . |
| 22 | But in spite of tragedy around the " first war " , the years were very happy ones at home . |
| 23 | There was a shell of carbon around the points . |
| 24 | Through the glass came faintly the sound of Rock Around The Clock . |
| 25 | There was a quick murmur of appreciation around the room , after the execution of Patrick Pearse and the other leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916 , Michael Collins was the most active and charismatic of the leaders of the Cause . |
| 26 | It 's not silent — there 's the train on the ridge , the soughing of wind around the great buttresses above , lake-water lapping on the shingle shore where I was standing . |
| 27 | He/she is 5″ long and pure white in colour with slight traces of pink around the stomach and head . |
| 28 | There was an air of concentration around the board now that the lesser players had been removed from the Game . |
| 29 | There was an instant chorus of recognition around the ( all-female ) table . |
| 30 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |