Example sentences of "are [verb] around the " in BNC.

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1 When Tibetans protest , their cries are heard around the world , as they were this week from the demonstrations in the capital , Lhasa .
2 Mirrors are placed around the wiggler to reflect the emitted light back and forth , causing amplification on each pass by stimulated emission .
3 WATER TANKS AND PIPES Insulating water tanks is the next job and this can be done with special padded material , secured in place by wire , or with special ready-made padded jackets , or , if you have a standard-sized water tank , with special pre-cut packs of sheet insulation that are placed around the tank and secured with tape or wire .
4 In some applications the infra red sources and detectors are placed around the edge of the visual display unit , a cheaper method of providing an interactive screen than embedding touch pads into the glass .
5 Most relocation policies are developed around the issue of the finances involved in buying and selling property .
6 Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid .
7 Their electric sensors , known as ampullae of Lorenzini , are arranged around the head .
8 First , mutations in the 5'TGCAA motif in cddP reduces binding of CytR ( 7 ) ( Fig. 6 ) ; and , second , the CytR-DNA backbone contacts in cytRP are arranged around the inverted repeat in this promoter as they are in deoP2 ( 8 ) .
9 Nodules are formed around the larvae mainly in the wall of the caecum and colon when , due to their size , they can travel no further within the arteries and subsequent rupture of these nodules releases the young adult parasites into the lumen of the intestine .
10 General Bourbollon 's troops are gathering around the capital ; he 's prepared to cross the Rubicon .
11 Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast .
12 The PC and its descendants are designed around the Intel 8088/86/286 family of processors and use a bus system to provide additional facilities such as graphics .
13 Several low rise hotels , backed by quiet citrus groves , are spaced around the half mile bay .
14 Something like 4m people who speak Greek , or think of themselves as Greek , are scattered around the world .
15 The police are scattered around the area with several pairs of squad cars and at least three Black Marias .
16 Zack must find his tools which are scattered around the factory .
17 Second , in courses which are organised around the expectation that most students are young and well qualified in a traditional sense , older students who have entered through different routes may find it more difficult to succeed than in courses where there is more support , both at an institutional level and from other students with similar backgrounds and experiences .
18 Formal user groups are organised around the General Household Survey and the Labour Force Survey .
19 It is 2130 and the EOD team are grouped around the television set again , cigarette smoke spiralling up to the ceiling .
20 In addition to the passenger cabin , three separate baggage bays are grouped around the fuel tank , providing an extra 35 cubic feet of space .
21 A direct and obvious example is that many marine animals are dispersed around the globe by ocean currents .
22 The empty cans can be left at a number of collection points which are located around the site .
23 A further example is shown in Figure 5b for ( AT ) 5 GC(AT) 5 in which the only reductions in DNase I cleavage are located around the central GC .
24 I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do .
25 Maintaining confidence and support depends on the thousand little things that are done around the school .
26 Very few horses are seen around the village these days but Swanland was a self-sufficient village , catering for all needs , with a blacksmith , shoemaker , tailor , wheelwright and undertaker .
27 But the new workers of the modern age must live , and so homes are built around the machine 's food supplies ; crowded and sprawling , urbanism begins forming part of the machine 's superstructure .
28 The models are compatible with the existing Tektronix XP10 and XP330 series and are built around the Texas Instruments Inc 340X processor and the Super Eagle/Falcon Token Ring local network chip set .
29 The GA5000 and GA6000 colour graphics subsystems are built around the Intel Corp 80860 RISC and are optimised for Concurrent 's Unix systems .
30 Like Challenge , these are built around the Mips R4400 and come with up to 12 and six of the parts respectively .
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