Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitfall traps are placed in various sorts of sites around the garden to catch ground beetles , spiders , harvestmen , woodlice , centipedes and millipedes . |
| 2 | In the woman sensation is experienced through the clitoris and — although less intensely — in the first inch or so of the vagina ; there is also a ring of nerves around the mouth of the uterus which may or may not come into play . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if there were more than three spatial dimensions , the orbits of planets around the sun or electrons around a nucleus would be unstable and they would tend to spiral inward . |
| 4 | Liveried bearers carried trays of kebabs around the room . |
| 5 | The town has some fascinating historical buildings , among which must be mentioned the old Town Hall with its Black Tower , the Latin school with its allegorical front , the salt house with its striking black and white shutters , the house where Pestalozzi , the Swiss educational reformer , died in 1827 , a parish church dating from 1480 , and a cluster of houses in a happy jumble of styles around the Heimatsmuseum . |
| 6 | For instance , you could arrange a garland or archway of flowers around the words , or even just a rectangular border and still create the designs in each corner . |
| 7 | Graduates were usually destined for mageship at least , but Rincewind — after an unfortunate event — had left knowing only one spell and made a living of sorts around the town by capitalising on an innate gift for languages . |
| 8 | It gives copious detail on four cases where a total of $100m is alleged to have been misappropriated through a complex web of transactions around the world . |
| 9 | They were led by Capt. Pascal Tawes , former deputy commander of the Presidential Guard , who had been arrested following the firing of gunshots around the presidential palace on May 27 . |
| 10 | You may see groups of children around the community studying water life or bird watching . |
| 11 | Pre-retirement seminars are offered on an open basis to individuals every month at a variety of locations around the country . |
| 12 | There are a variety of paths around the reserve as well as local bridleways and footpaths you can link up with to make a longer walk . |
| 13 | Among the various species , such specialized glands have been found in almost all anatomical locations including the anus , sex organs , wrists , ankles , chest , under their leg articulation , upon their shoulders and back and in a variety of places around the head , face and ears . |
| 14 | He worked in Darlington for several years in a variety of practices around the town . |
| 15 | For completeness , the remainder of this chapter is devoted to an A to Z list of plumbing tools , materials and equipment that you are likely to need for the majority of jobs around the house . |
| 16 | I hope that my further work and the work of others around the world will help to clarify the advantages of the fifty millesimal potencies over the centesimal potencies . |
| 17 | A work such as Judith Weir 's A Night At The Chinese Opera ( 1987 ) plays with narrative continuity and frames of reference in ways that tie it much more closely to modern literary devices than to any musical antecedents ; Harrison Birtwhistle 's The Mask of Orpheus ( 1986 ) uses all the dramatic devices and timeshifts an opera can muster to tease out the contradictory bundle of myths around the Orpheus legend . |
| 18 | But , as Jessop shows , by insisting on the plurality of forces around the state and also arguing that the ruling class must always win out in any politics which flow from this conflict . |
| 19 | Considerably lesser wines , however , are made from an isolated plot of vines around the south-western edge of Ambonnay — obviously these vines can not be compared to those situated north of the village . |
| 20 | There were no juke-boxes or Coke machines , but there were many shelves of books around the room and a selection of magazines and newspapers ; there were also at least a dozen chess-boards . |
| 21 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 22 | Like the bosses in the once merger-mad entertainment industry to the north , Televisa 's managers tout the company as an integrated media conglomerate , offering advertisers and performers exposure through a range of outlets around the Spanish-speaking world . |
| 23 | This was due , in part , to the commitment of a first class team of employees around the world . |
| 24 | The purpose of this practice is to ensure a more even distribution of pupils around the LEA 's schools . |
| 25 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 26 | is just one of band of companies around the country , presenting their business plans to private investors . |
| 27 | The patrols searching the first group of farms around the village of Pontino were the only ones to bring the Captain anything when they returned , muddy and exhausted , after their double shift . |
| 28 | Chris trailed back , dragging his bat in disgust , but loudly clapped by his team and the little group of parents around the scorer 's shack in the corner of the field . |
| 29 | Among a group of dolphins around the bows of a boat , certain individuals will be most attentive and keep returning again and again . |
| 30 | Both were standing , foaming tankards of ale in their hands , in the middle of the group of mourners around the makeshift coffin , leading them in raucous song about the fate of an innkeeper 's young daughter . |