Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planets orbit around the sun . |
| 2 | I joined one of the work-parties and helped rebuild cleits and repair storm damage around the cottages . |
| 3 | You fit Open University study around the rest of your life . |
| 4 | The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme . |
| 5 | But in the end the resident was only allowed to inspect the security of the chain link fence around the dump . |
| 6 | The quarry , which rises to around 80 feet in height , has 18 routes ranging in difficulty from Severe to E3 , with a starred E3 and the two-star route Rock Around the Brock — mostly concentrated on the left hand side of the crag . |
| 7 | Now Mr Wakeham said yesterday that high petrol prices are here to stay , considering what you 've just said , does that mean we can see a three pound gallon around the corner ? |
| 8 | Meeting together as joint members of the South Atlantic Fishing Commission in London on Dec. 5-6 , officials from the Argentine and United Kingdom governments agreed to extend a commercial fishing ban around the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands for a further year until the end of 1992 . |
| 9 | The juxtaposition of seemingly disparate objects ; the distortion of scale ; the vaguely poetic resonances ( the wedding ring around the finger , the fingers on the piano keys etc. ) all contribute to the enigma of the images at once puzzling and yet trite . |
| 10 | I also run a contrast colour tacking stitch around the outline for a sewing guide and I leave this in place until I have re-hung the sweater on the knitting machine to attach the neck band . |
| 11 | It might include a 3000m timed run , 15 minutes Indian File , a school relay competition mixing up all the age groups , a leisurely scenic run , and a short pyramid session around the soccer pitch . |
| 12 | Are we having a boat rip around the needles ? |
| 13 | EVERY LASMO site around the world will soon be armed with a new and better way of carrying out vital safety checks . |
| 14 | Increased noise and fumes from traffic would inconvenience residents , despite plans to build a screening wall around the car park . |
| 15 | This has been surprisingly little used even in the US , and the recent work by the CLE on it has had considerable impact in changing the direction of labour economics around the world . |
| 16 | It includes results from every major ( and obscure ) football tournament around the world , a country-by-country guide covering both league and cup champions and major club directories . |
| 17 | The Mirror 's pictures made headline news around the world . |
| 18 | The Carrion swoop around the adventurers , but make no attempt to carry anyone off . |
| 19 | Places to avoid : We would n't recommend the glass-bottom boat tour around the reefs of Nassau . |
| 20 | Today one can enjoy a relaxing boat tour around the harbour . |
| 21 | A management consultant 's study has found that office and warehouse space around the port and former burgh of Leith offers the best potential for growth , while giving a further boost to the area 's development plans . |
| 22 | and , with the Five Nations Championship around the corner , the issue must be addressed before recrimination and bitterness degenerate into open hostility . |
| 23 | The mechanism of the healing is unknown but previous studies showed that the new vacularisation at the ulcer margin , the establishment of adequate blood flow around the ulcer base , and stimulation of cell migration and proliferation in the granulation tissue at the ulcer bed are the key factors in this process . |
| 24 | He boasts all the trappings of a billionaire : the 385-foot yacht which also acts as a roving business headquarters ; the private jets ; a string of racehorses ; gold supposedly held in the form of bars ; the twenty-mile-square holiday island of Spetsopoula , off Athens ; the shipping fleet on which his fortune is based ; a string of trophy wives and mistresses topped only be the late Aristotle Onassis ; and prime investment property around the world . |
| 25 | Seventy-year-old Robert Steel completed his 2,000-mile , 100 -day marathon walk around the coastline of England on 7 August . |
| 26 | Women naturally have larger bottoms and smaller waists than men , whose male hormone testosterone leads mainly to weight gain around the abdomen . |
| 27 | For the design photographed on the facing page , I chose the frame first because I was so attracted by its marble effect and the inlay banding around the frame . |
| 28 | The Front 's formation the previous spring had been backed by Ferlinghetti , Rexroth , Bill Graham — whose role as a rock promoter around the Filmore ballroom was just emerging and Ralph J. Gleason , then a little known San Francisco Chronicle columnist , later one of the main inspirations , and writers on Jann Wenner 's Rolling Stone , just a year away from its first edition . |
| 29 | This initially ran on a short demonstration track around the works but eight years ago developed into a plan to run month long charity specials up the former trackbed and based on the Leek and Manifold 's former Hulme End terminus . |
| 30 | These did not , however , include the 100,000 residents evacuated from the 30 kilometre zone around the reactor soon after the accident . |