Example sentences of "[noun] be around the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally the extra cost for this type is around the same as for adding your own jacket — but the insulation wo n't fall off . |
| 2 | Any involvement in the race issue was around the anti-Fascist campaigns of that time . |
| 3 | Its population is around the 3.3 million mark compared with some 56 million in the UK . |
| 4 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 5 | Olschewski said that profits were around the two figure million mark , but would n't provide more specific details . |
| 6 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 7 | By 1980 , registrations were around the 3,000 mark . |
| 8 | Firstly , the peak age for conviction is around the school-leaving age and the likelihood of conviction after that age declines ; and , secondly , a very significant proportion of the offences committed by juveniles are very trivial — stealing milk bottles for example . |
| 9 | An area of defensiveness is around the Labour Party because that 's been one of my main arenas of political activity for the last eight , nine years or so . |
| 10 | Some of the finest coastal walks on Skye are around the Duirnish peninsula in the north-west of the island where there are spectacular cliffs and bizarre rock stacks . |
| 11 | In the normal way , a pregnant woman would go for regular check-ups either with her doctor or with the ante-natal clinic , the first visit being around the eighth to twelfth week . |
| 12 | That value is around the Scottish average . |