Example sentences of "[noun sg] zone around " in BNC.
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| 1 | These did not , however , include the 100,000 residents evacuated from the 30 kilometre zone around the reactor soon after the accident . |
| 2 | Four activists chained themselves to an oil drilling rig being towed to the Barents Sea in early August , and several days later others steered a boat into the 500-metre safety zone around the rig . |
| 3 | Vladimir Chernousenko , the scientific director of the 20-mile exclusion zone around the reactor , claims that the number of immediate Chernobyl deaths — still officially listed as 31 — could in fact total as many as 7,000 . |
| 4 | In thirty minutes he substantially re-established his parliamentary position and announced a 200-mile naval exclusion zone around the Falklands . |
| 5 | There can be no exclusion zone around belief , whether it is put there by believers claiming special enlightenment or philosophers drawing the bounds to sense . |
| 6 | This would allow the Argentinians to stay well clear of the exclusion zone around the Falklands Islands while at the same time being able to attack ships anywhere inside it . |
| 7 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 8 | The government maintained pressure on the rebels by declaring an exclusion zone around Bougainville and blockading all supplies to the island . |
| 9 | A team of Greenpeace activists protesting against French nuclear testing in the Pacific have been arrested by the French navy after entering the 12-mile exclusion zone around the Pacific atoll of Mururoa , where the tests take place . |
| 10 | As they moved on , the Home Secretary was declaring a five mile exclusion zone around last summer 's biggest campsite . |
| 11 | He 's sanctioned a request by Malvern Hills Council to create a 5 mile exclusion zone around the common , banning convoys of travellers over the coming Bank Holiday . |
| 12 | Officers are visiting 17 New Age Travellers sites with a simple message — stay away from a 5-mile exclusion zone around Castlemorton Common over this Bank Holiday weekend or you 're likely to be arrested . |
| 13 | Apart from the delta , Turkey had to concede the right of merchant ships to pass through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles ( which was crucial from the point of view of Russian trade ) , and to surrender rather more significant territories in the eastern part of her empire ( because Russia was determined to control the eastern shore of the Black Sea and to enlarge her buffer zone around Georgia ) . |