Example sentences of "around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new legislation adds substantially to the armoury of pre-publication censorship , and together with our more traditional legislation of post-publication censorship , forms a disarming net around freedom of expression . |
| 2 | This is one reason why the fields around Rise , in particular on Park Farm , were so large . |
| 3 | It is contexts that fascinate Morrison : the context that history places around the present , the community around the individual , blackness around whiteness ( or vice versa ) . |
| 4 | But the fire burned on , with the cost of the damage estimated at around sxity thousand pounds . |
| 5 | When I began to be seen around camp with a new face , I was subjected to a lot of nudging and winking from those who did n't know the facts , and people came up to me with knowing smiles on their faces , saying , ‘ I see you 've got a new boyfriend ! |
| 6 | At the next opportunity we were on our way to the Station Bomb Dump in the truck which J. had to get him around camp . |
| 7 | Previous generations had dined in black ties in the panelled dining rooms of observatories that were male preserves ; the new breed ate ‘ primeval pizza ’ in basements around physics labs . |
| 8 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 9 | The silence gathered in the room around Millet . |
| 10 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 11 | The limitations of a movement based around university French departments are obvious . |
| 12 | Use 750g/1¼lb of the marzipan to cover larger cake : first fill any gaps around base then , using about two-thirds of the remainder , roll out a strip to cover side of cake completely . |
| 13 | I had a strong feeling of unreality as , with other aspiring pilots , I threw muck and swill around hour after hour . |
| 14 | DAVID INSHAW 'S painting of ‘ The Cricket Game ’ in the lazy valley of the River Bride might make the fat green chalk hills around look too good to be true . |
| 15 | Go right around building and cross stiles east to Towednack Church . |
| 16 | The aim of the scheme is to improve areas around building sites , making them cleaner and easier to negotiate , to encourage contractors working in the borough to use more environmentally-friendly materials and to be more energy efficient . |
| 17 | Theatre Studies also runs a province-wide annual arts/cultural festival — Theatre Studies Week — around Easter . |
| 18 | Government officials are working out details of the plan , with the result of an in-depth overview expected around Easter . |
| 19 | Certain of the retailing organizations we spoke to mentioned a smaller , shorter peak at around Easter and many also hired temporary workers for a month or two over the summer to fill in for regular staff who were taking vacations . |
| 20 | As these retirements were taking effect around Easter , I felt it better to wait until after the Easter celebrations before making any appointments . |
| 21 | Now the Government is expected to set out its latest thinking on the issue in a Green Paper due to be published around Easter . |
| 22 | around Easter time erm would yous be able to take some person just to come and sit in your shop for a week out of our school ? |
| 23 | Fold down one wire half to lie against the stem , wind the other half around stem and wire . |
| 24 | As we flew down around hairpin bends , I thanked Fate we were n't doing the day 's route in reverse ! |
| 25 | OL' MARK Perry 's been around y'know — in at the start , an integral part , remember '77 — but apart from founding the fanzine , Sniffin' Glue , he 's never really made a go of it as a rocker . |
| 26 | OL' MARK Perry 's been around y'know — in at the start , an integral part , remember '77 — but apart from founding the fanzine , Sniffin' Glue , he 's never really made a go of it as a rocker . |
| 27 | That is , people writing in the eighteenth century that th you know um it was appropriate for kids to be introduced to sex when they were around y'know sort of seven or eight or something in some cases . |
| 28 | I 'll give you a ring around lunch-time . ’ |
| 29 | One infant school I know has opted for selecting three core subject specialists and moving the children around part of the day to work with their specialist teacher . |
| 30 | Vehicle barriers , as requested by ELDC , were erected around the car park area where the main compound is sited and around part of the reinstated area of MH28 — Summit MH . |