Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | As fast as FAX and having user groups for just about every computer and software product around , it is becoming one of the main channels for passing information around the scientific community for example , much of the debate on Cold Fusion was carried out over the Internet . |
| 2 | The farmers visited were in Buskerud county , with five in the hill region just north of Drammen and five some 160km northwest of that city around Al , Gol , Torpo and Nesbyen . |
| 3 | From a distance her eyes are dark black but if you look closely you see a ring of dark brown around the pupil . |
| 4 | We stapled a piece of blue baize around the door and , hey presto , there was a neat little portable platform which we could produce when the time came , looking incredibly efficient . |
| 5 | Wrap a piece of corrugated cardboard around the back to allow movement caused by heat when the fire is lit , and fill any spaces with the weak vermiculite mix ( use the minimum water ) . |
| 6 | He then wrapped a piece of red flannel around it and placed it under his arm . |
| 7 | The early 18th century 30-acre garden , set in 300 acres of dramatic parkland around the River Rye , has been described as ‘ the supreme masterpiece of the art of the landscape gardener ’ . |
| 8 | As long ago as the first century A.D. , the Roman author Pliny , in his monumental Natural History , suggested that placing branches of this shrub around an object would keep cats away from it . |
| 9 | Garnons-Williams RN , an enthusiastic supporter of the raiding idea , found some ‘ crash ’ air-sea rescue boats for Dudley Clarke 's first raid , which was mounted on the night France surrendered , 23 June , with four landings along a 20-mile stretch of French coast around Boulogne . |
| 10 | Anyone with the slightest interest in aviation will know of the array of technical devices which enable a pilot to navigate himself and his aircraft with pinpoint accuracy around the globe . |
| 11 | AA Roadwatch said problems with snow on higher ground around the Pennines had also ended . |
| 12 | Cumming had a fascination with most forms of transport , driving his Rolls at high speed around the streets of London . |
| 13 | Mr Babangida and his predecessors have tried to meet competing ethnic demands by spreading power around regional governments in a federal system . |
| 14 | But Rosa Burger 's emergence is inextricably entwined with events that are far larger than any individual , yet deeply part of each person around her . |
| 15 | Before he left , Chagall twisted a coil of stout wire around the door handle twenty-five times , certain that the one hundred and fifty paintings he had left inside would be secure . |
| 16 | Merrill pushed the last morsel of caramelised orange around her plate . |
| 17 | This is a major step forward in preserving one of the country 's significant Expansion Scheme airfields , and shows hope for several more sites of aeronautical heritage around the UK . |
| 18 | Ferguson now sports a tuft of facial hair around his lips and chin , permitted him by the Tannadice tablets of stone , but it will take more than a beard to signify maturity . |
| 19 | One European species is nearly transparent , with trembling circlets of hazy blue around each opening and thin rings of muscle strengthening the inner tube so that the creature looks like the most delicate bubble of Venetian glass . |
| 20 | Serge Moscovici , who has been both the Marx and the Lenin of this revolutionary movement , has advocated a fundamental reorientation of social psychology around the concept of social representations . |
| 21 | In the centre of the lawn , a large decorative tub has been planted with a small leaved variegated ivy with clipped lavender around it . |
| 22 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 23 | I share her desire to ensure that the channel tunnel becomes a tool for economic regeneration around the country . |
| 24 | Northumbrian villages , though protected to some extent by castles and garrisons such as those at Carlisle , Naworth , Harbottle and Norham , tended to be built in a sort of miniature bailey around a large square green which could be gated when cattle were brought in for the night . |
| 25 | Following two days of heavy fighting around Osijek , the main town in Slavonia , with heavy army involvement , Tudjman on Aug. 22 issued an ultimatum to the Presidency warning that unless Serbian aggression against Croatia stopped and the army left Croatia by Aug. 31 , " all necessary steps " would be taken to protect the republic and the army would be declared an occupying force ( which would be equivalent to a declaration of war ) . |
| 26 | Remember how your baby , after weeks of aimless standing around holding onto the fireguard , suddenly took five steps across the room when nobody was looking ? |
| 27 | What makes one pause when considering the role of public transport is the dispersed nature of modern society around the big cities . |
| 28 | He also kept two or three cows for the sustenance of the family , and so required two , three or four pieces of enclosed land around his house . |
| 29 | The rump of Die-hard support around the Boswell publishing concerns was to survive as part of an underground tradition . |
| 30 | Cockburn 's approach is more determinist than that of Dearlove , who stresses the importance of political conflict around local government as one of the reasons for the reforms . |