Example sentences of "[noun pl] that surround [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The madness of all this is constantly illustrated by a jumbled host of fragmentary images that surround us , of body hair and smells and leakings , of panty liners , bikini lines and cellulite . |
| 2 | Victorian writers often present themselves as speaking from their fireside to those of their readers , while the stories they tell , like those of Dickens 's narrator , Master Humphrey , may be prompted by the objects that surround them . |
| 3 | Youngest of the three were the ‘ Pre-Puberty ’ boys aged ten to thirteen ; they were to be taught ‘ the true facts of their origin , of their life development , and of the dangers that surround them … ’ . |
| 4 | Children are not , however , independent of the nexus of expectations , attitudes and values that surround them . |
| 5 | The energy thus captured by the atom will be discharged into the molecules that surround it . |
| 6 | Use the multi purpose brush head together with one of the towels provided to clean tiled surfaces , the bath , shower and the areas that surround them . |
| 7 | In the centre of Bishkek , formerly Frunze , where grandiose marble buildings intrude into the paradise of fir trees and mountains that surround them , Alexandra bemoaned the end of empire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People do n't appreciate the material belongings that surround them , they just buy things and then chuck them away , they consume and consume and get more and more lost . |
| 10 | Wedded to their reflections in the waters that surround them , they look like giant gemstones set in the blue . |
| 11 | It is n't really you who 's feeling this way , it 's the girl you used to be who 's been somehow resurrected — brought back to life by all the memories that surround you . |
| 12 | And I quite agree with you , we are all much too complacent about the great wonders that surround us . ’ |
| 13 | It 's not other people , it 's not the problems that surround us , it 's not the people that we have to work with or the conditions in work , it 's not the next door neighbours , terrible though they may be , the real answer , for you and for me , lies within ourselves . |
| 14 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 15 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 16 | So we should probably begin by asking what college is for and reviewing the various arguments that surround it . |
| 17 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 18 | Deviants can not be viewed as billiard balls inescapably moved by the social forces that surround them . |
| 19 | ‘ Statues of the gods once stood in the niches that surround us , but they were borrowed over the centuries and not returned . |
| 20 | Even here , however , the market retains its ‘ open air ’ image , and is separate from the retail outlets that surround it . |
| 21 | Loch Morlich must have been stunningly beautiful once , before the picnic tables and dinghies arrived , and at least the wonderful Scots pines that surround it have survived and are now protected . |
| 22 | Its delightful situation in a wide fertile valley framed by the twin craggy peaks of the Mythen standing behind is particularly picturesque when the cherry orchards that surround it are smothered in spring blossom . |
| 23 | During the winter of 1908–9 , however , Picasso produced two very large canvases ( larger than any he was to produce until the summer of 1914 ) which seem to stand out from others that surround them and which have been the subject of much stimulating argument and discussion . |
| 24 | We live in a cause-and-effect world and feel uncomfortable if we can not discover the reasons for the events that surround us . |