Example sentences of "around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help can be summoned from ACET or other services merely by pressing a button on a pendant worn around the neck . |
| 2 | Over the next six months this small group of professionals and volunteers provided practical care for 15 people living in or around the Borough of Ealing . |
| 3 | Keep the 30th Anniversary log flying around the country for Amnesty 's anniversary . |
| 4 | Around the world today , more than 100 countries still retain the death penalty , and two out of every three human beings live under governments that use torture and other cruel , inhuman and degrading treatment against them . |
| 5 | Amnesty International is launching its 30th Anniversary appeal for 30 prisoner cases around the world in 1991 . |
| 6 | The immense task of gathering , analysing and confirming allegations of human rights violations from around the world falls to the Research Department at the International Secretariat , Amnesty 's headquarters in London . |
| 7 | TODAY THERE ARE 4,200 LOCAL AMNESTY GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD . |
| 8 | It came as something of a shock in the late 1970s , when developments in the human rights situation around the world and the increase in groups worldwide and the increase in groups worldwide led to fewer prisoner cases being available for UK groups . |
| 9 | This did not mean , unfortunately , that human rights were being respected , but that regimes around the world were using new methods of repression such as ‘ disappearances ’ and extrajudicial executions . |
| 10 | The automobile has turned the city inside out , ranging new communities around the periphery and letting the centre rot : not far from the centre is an old slum district where the gangs operate . |
| 11 | If you can afford to , it 's generally best to spread your auditions around the drama schools so that you are seen more than once . |
| 12 | I kept walking , past the old mill , right up around the bend to where the council property starts , and I thought , oh , shit , council houses . |
| 13 | The growth of the catholic social movements and activity of Roman catholics in trade unions and politics was rooted in this dramatic revival , which gave rise to Catholic Action and the development of catholic social studies groups around the world . |
| 14 | In the Republic , as in the North , a parents ' movement to set up integrated schools was started around the same time . |
| 15 | It grew up originally in the Southern middle-class suburb of Dalkey , County Dublin , and around the Church of Ireland national school there . |
| 16 | Yet it is easy for pioneer users and IT investors to remain with the tried and tested applications and miss out on the cutting edge opportunities just around the corner . |
| 17 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 18 | Pilots ' helmets with miniature built-in video screens may not have obvious applications in hotels and restaurants , but there are several defence-led developments which do , and which will increasingly be seen around the industry . |
| 19 | She sometimes puts slices of smoked guinea fowl around the edge to give added texture . |
| 20 | Outside diners are given a choice of fish or meat main course when they book , and sit at smaller tables around the antique-filled dining room . |
| 21 | One advantage of the no-choice system is that Vaughan can write her menu late in the afternoon , around the dishes that she feels like cooking on the day , with the best ingredients available to her . |
| 22 | ‘ SEABASS is in plentiful supply around the islands in late summer . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's more , he was hanging around the cake display , looking rather shifty , if you ask me . ’ |
| 24 | She looked around the tent , her pale eyes filled with simple curiosity , and then looked back at Peggy . |
| 25 | The air was close , soured through with the smell of size , canvas and stewed tea , and , around the entrance cubbyhole of Bert , the stagedoor-keeper , Goldflake cigarettes and the chancey whiff of Flossie , his aged spaniel . |
| 26 | ‘ A bus-load of boring belly dancers , ’ I said , and pranced around the room . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , he went out , put the ladder against the wall briefly to leave traces , threw a bit of mud through the window , and the key , and scattered more mud around the rose bed . |
| 28 | It has shaped those fashions , sounds and images young people around the world perceive as the essence of being British . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , it 's been around the common room for some time now . ’ |
| 30 | That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’ |