Example sentences of "[noun pl] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding reflects the commonsense idea that people are influenced in their speech by the speakers around them . |
| 2 | To rectify such mistakes may take extensive exposure to different usage from other speakers around them , before children find out that they have a real case of no difference in meaning ( Clark , 1987,1988 ) . |
| 3 | Four speakers around the dance floor and er two big bass things . |
| 4 | You get a build up of black heads around the nose , and around the chin . |
| 5 | I see some shaking of heads around me , not to worry . |
| 6 | The Natural Break brochure , sponsored by British Gas , reveals a wealth of conservation opportunities around the country . |
| 7 | Thanks to the Sports Council there are opportunities around the country for almost every kind of sport , with 50-plus beginners especially welcome . |
| 8 | The point has been to set people free from constraints ; and leave them free to take advantage of the opportunities around them . |
| 9 | No doubt there are many inadequately pursued opportunities around that could be revived and worked through more thoroughly . |
| 10 | Five years ago DIP entered its second phase , thanks to the development of software that not only handled image storage and retrieval but actively managed the routing and movement of images around an organisation . |
| 11 | The brands involved in sponsoring grand prix ( Marlboro , Camel , Gitanes , Lucky Strike , and Rothmans ) each have minute brand shares in Australia , but , unlike France , which has recently lost its place on the grand prix circuit because of its refusal to allow tobacco advertising , Australia will continue to ‘ export ’ these images around the world in race telecasts . ) |
| 12 | The idea was that I was going to have these images around the base , and then I never did the Crucifixion . |
| 13 | Racism poisons a lot of children 's minds — they grow up in an environment with all these images around them , in comics , newspapers , TV , films , plus everything they hear from the family or friends — they just can not help taking it in . |
| 14 | Part of the problem is that most of us do n't know very much about mental illness and we tend to see very negative images around us and on television . |
| 15 | The Asiatic spiny turtle ( left ) boasts a rim of sharp spikes around the edge of its shell , and the pancake tortoise ( bottom ) has an unusually flattened shell and body enabling it to slither to safety under low crevices . |
| 16 | These were released over five months around the 3 km shoreline of Lake Apastapeque in El Salvador . |
| 17 | So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee , exulting and then despairing , then exulting again . |
| 18 | Gallant Warriors ( published by the Author , 32pp , sbk , $ 10.95 ) by Dennis D Bergstrom is a survey of propeller driven warbird fighter and bomber survivors around the world . |
| 19 | Graduates were usually destined for mageship at least , but Rincewind — after an unfortunate event — had left knowing only one spell and made a living of sorts around the town by capitalising on an innate gift for languages . |
| 20 | Like Domanov 's Cossacks , this heterogeneous group , made up from the various peoples around the Caucasus , including Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaidjani Moslems , had originally joined the German retreat westwards in 1942–3 . |
| 21 | The new body undertook to defend " the right of self-determination of oppressed peoples around the world " . |
| 22 | At that time , Chiswick still comprised three districts around Turnham Green — to the west there was Strand-on-the-Green with houses facing the river and behind a ‘ Back Lane ’ . |
| 23 | Lawton ( 1977 ) has shown that many rural districts around London and the other major cities have had persistent population increases since 1921 . |
| 24 | Many of the victims were in the south-eastern districts around Chittagong and Cox 's Bazar , and unofficial reports indicated that up to 10,000,000 people had been made homeless . |
| 25 | He also announced that as of July 24 the armed forces had begun an operation intended to last several days in which searches would be made for explosives and propaganda material in various districts around the capital . |
| 26 | McPhee had all the ordinary police out in support and Garvin brought in extra police from the country districts around Cairo . |
| 27 | Just to complete the picture on the districts around York , erm and in answer to the issue raised by er Miss Whitaker , I think the villages in erm the Harrogate sector of Greater York are all far too small to erm act as a nucleus for the size of development we 're talking about here , er the largest of them , Upper Poppleton , probably has about seven hundred to eight hundred houses , and that I think would be swamped and lose its character and also possibly suffer from coalescence with the nearby York urban area , if er large amounts of additional development were tacked onto it . |
| 28 | Having iced the cake with a plain layer of royal icing and then left it to dry , I have made copies of small pressed flower pictures both on the top , as a centrepiece , and with small sprays around the sides of the cake . |
| 29 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 30 | • We will be providing information for CND supporters around the country to show how a ‘ Peace Dividend ’ could benefit their local areas . |