Example sentences of "[noun sg] be built around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their programme is built around the friendships , rivalries , correspondence and music of four of the 18th-century 's most successful and prolific composers — Telemann , Handel , Bach and Bononcini . |
| 2 | The programme is built around a series of day cruises , building up to some long and ambitious trips exploring the islands in Wayfarer dinghies , so every morning starts with a briefing . |
| 3 | The new terminal is built around OEM parts procured from Network Computing Devices Inc of Mountain View , California , and engineered for production by Hitachi . |
| 4 | The graphics subsystem is built around custom chips and plugs into the TurboChannel of the host processor : it 's intended for the Alpha-based Titan 2.0 — a multi-processor graphics workstation — but it will also run on the MIPS-based Titan 1.0 . |
| 5 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 6 | Perhaps this is because his problem is not a sociological one ; he is engaged in polemic rather than social theory and his work is built around an apocalyptic vision of the future of capitalism rather than a series of questions about social phenomena . |
| 7 | With the eventual departure of Nik Powell , the inner core was built around Branson , Draper and Berry — a triumvirate whose similarity in medium-length haircuts , corduroy trousers and comfortable sweaters could , on occasion , make them look almost like brothers . |
| 8 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
| 9 | We saw in Chapter 4 that the academic community is built around a structured conversation , with its members adhering to certain norms : they are truth seeking ; they are sincere in their utterances ; they offer understandable propositions ; and they adopt appropriate forms of communication . |
| 10 | Writing recently in Business Life , the magazine of British Airways , Sir John Harvey-Jones stated : ‘ Successful international business is built around personal relationships , contacts , instincts , opportunities seen and grasped — and none of those can be faxed . |
| 11 | The political environment in which Western academic studies of the Soviet Union have had to operate for most of the post-war period was built around several widely share assumptions ; that the USSR was a ‘ threat ’ , that socialism was a failure , that the Soviet state was incapable of rational modernisation . |
| 12 | The Unionist recovery was built around Law 's leadership , but what Asquith called the " new style " of obstruction , threats and offensive behaviour did not originate with Law . |
| 13 | The event orientation is built around the accurate identification of signals indicating when the customer needs a new line of credit , what the line might be and why it may be needed . |
| 14 | Alum pot itself could not fail to be noticed by the first settlers in the district , its yawning gulf constituting an obvious danger to both man and beast ; in the course of time , a wall was built around it and trees planted to indicate its position . |
| 15 | A 9″ concrete base was laid and after the conservatory was installed by contractors , a double-thickness ( 6″ ) brick wall was built around the edges of the pond , to a height of 2′ 6″ above ground , following the shape of the conservatory . |
| 16 | The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost . |
| 17 | The palazzo is built around a courtyard with a truncated tower at its base . |
| 18 | Dell Computer Corp 's new 4560/XE server is built around the company 's new XE-server chassis and the 60MHz Pentium processor . |
| 19 | The difficulty lay in the fact that what characterized their view of primitive society was that it was classless and free of exploitation , while the Marxist theory of society is built around the idea of class . |
| 20 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
| 21 | Longacre ( 1979 ) claims that ‘ in narrative discourse , a narrative paragraph is built around a thematic participant , occasionally a small set of thematic participants ’ ( Longacre , 1979 : 118 ) . |
| 22 | Williams and Shoultz ( 1982 ) set out their view of some of the processes at work in self advocacy , and the following account is built around their observations . |
| 23 | The new Modular Color X terminal line is built around the 88100 RISC from Motorola Inc and is designed to bring to mid-cost products functions and performance once available only on high-end units , including PEX three-dimensional graphics and performance reaches 100,000 Xstones . |
| 24 | The project was built around interviews , conducted and recorded by the pupils , with a number of people who had lived through the war in Dudley . |
| 25 | But set aside the location and the time , and even the fact that the story is built around a strike by workers on the Dakar-Niger railway line . |
| 26 | Every IBM PC compatible computer is built around a Processing Chip ( processor ) , and this chip is nominally a member of the Intel x86 family . |
| 27 | Some organisations recognise the role of the informal to the extent that the formal structure is built around it . |
| 28 | The hotel is built around a nineteenth-century palace , with covered walkways to the modern bedroom wings . |
| 29 | The gas central heating system is built around a highly efficient condensing boiler which removes extra heat from flue gases and converts this otherwise wasted energy into usable warmth . |
| 30 | Our entire culture is built around those loyalties . |