Example sentences of "[noun] that surround [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before looking in more detail at who the ‘ Hooligans ’ were , and in order to place the controversies that surrounded them in perspective , it will be helpful to make an imaginative effort to reconstruct the kind of social world in which the original ‘ Hooligans ’ moved . |
| 2 | Archivists need to raise their heads above the paper mountains that surround them in order to develop a realistic strategy for the preservation of the new generation of records . |
| 3 | MURDER , love affairs , violence , robberies , mounting debts … our soap operas are packed full of every gloomy scenario that surrounds us in the real world . |
| 4 | This ‘ Gish ’ out-take is no earth-shattering pop classic , just a steely example of sweaty-fingered , control-freak intelligent-metal , and it still sounds eight to ten times superior to the Brit stuff that surrounds it in this week 's pile of singles . |
| 5 | This arrangement represented ‘ the same top-down white patriarchal model of leadership that surrounds us in our daily life in capitalist society and most left-wing organizations in this country . |
| 6 | If there ever was a body , Henry Hippisley took the secret to his grave — oblivious of the rumour and revilement that surrounded him in his final years — and fortunately for him , died of natural causes . |