Example sentences of "round this " in BNC.

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1 You could n't find your way round this city any more ( and here is a strange thought ) than you have got the practical hang of the little fortress prison at Omsk by the end of The House of the Dead .
2 The much-thumbed book is deeply moving , and sets the tone for a walk round this glorious building , which has seen the christenings , marriages and burials of the folk of the village for more than 600 years .
3 They 're all sitting round this table , like they 're going to start eating any moment .
4 On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it .
5 Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance .
6 Then a further clay mould was packed round this , and the whole thing was baked .
7 ‘ Without consent no solution we work out round this table will have a chance . ’
8 One way round this is to tie a tiny hook to the hair and to bend inwards slightly the hook point — enough to prevent fish from being hooked but not enough to make hooking bait too difficult .
9 Ah 'm worn to a frazzle fighting off the toffs that have been swarming round this door since she was nine and three quarters .
10 One way round this apparent impasse is to collide together particles with equal amounts of energy travelling in opposite directions ; then all the energy is available to create new particles .
11 One way round this problem is a scheme called the Heisenberg fellowships , run by the DFG .
12 One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches .
13 It is vital to prepare a way round this question well before the interview itself .
14 There 's a strong rumour going round this Lodge that a strangler from Rampton was on the loose in this area last night , and has n't yet been caught .
15 Ray gets round this by building a support ‘ spider ’ from a cross-fitting with elbows and straight pipework ( see diagram over page ) .
16 Annie 's mind cast back to the number of his children who had defied Jonadab round this very table .
17 The Slavemaster gets round this problem with some devious circuitry to produce a balancing act between pre and power amps , resulting in a more controlled , authentic effect .
18 He circles round this difficult area , trying to explain it to himself ; such a circular method of approach enabled him to rewrite again and again in a syncretic way , adding and extending without damaging the basic structure of the poem .
19 Now that his marriage has broken down there is no way round this problem .
20 ‘ I remember a meeting with our corporate advisers in the City , 20 of us sitting round this huge boardroom table .
21 A Labour Party spokesman , however , has got round this little difficulty by asking the company 's current auditors and their predecessors what they did to draw the public 's attention to the problem .
22 Round this yard was a lining of lean-to stabling ; it was the slight movement of scores of horses they were hearing .
23 Wandering round this huge complex , I came to a kind of crossroads where signs pointing in four directions said things like ‘ Chaplain 's Office ’ , ‘ VIP Lounge ’ , ‘ Flight Information ’ .
24 Nothing else is ever heard of Fróda in Old English , but the Norse form of the word — it means literally ‘ the wise one ’ — is Fróthi , and round this there are several stories .
25 A way round this hearsay evidence is for the officer to say ‘ The passenger Mr. Jones says he is not licensed to drive this car so I am reporting you ( the defendant ) for quitting a vehicle ’ etc .
26 The first pitch used to employ a point of aid to cross the overhang , but an alternative way round this was found and gives good jug pulling to the belay .
27 If any other clubs in Devon or Cornwall would like Pam to organise a visit or workshop round this time , please contact her as soon as possible .
28 The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) .
29 There is however , a way round this : ‘ imprison ’ all or part of the offending corporation .
30 And Camp 3 is one of the old ones , Holly , there have been thousands here before you , tens of thousands of booted and bandaged feet dragging round this path .
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