Example sentences of "[noun pl] around [art] edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Asiatic spiny turtle ( left ) boasts a rim of sharp spikes around the edge of its shell , and the pancake tortoise ( bottom ) has an unusually flattened shell and body enabling it to slither to safety under low crevices . |
| 2 | It was man-made , I glimpsed the grey bricks around the edge , and probably fed by underground streams . |
| 3 | That is , with a path slap down the middle , a flanking washing line and four narrow borders around the edge . |
| 4 | With a central lawn and borders around the edge , this garden would have lacked character , but internal hedges and a patio overhead had been used to create distinct areas that can be explored like the rooms of a house , each with a new mood and style . |
| 5 | A few representatives have central posts , and stakeholes around the edge of the hollow to support a revetment . |
| 6 | Adult weevils particularly like camellias and rhododendrons , nibbling notches around the edges of leaves . |
| 7 | The cai prodded the five men until they began hobbling on their swollen , bleeding feet around the edge of the circle formed by their fellows . |
| 8 | I took a deep breath and ran my dagger under the rim of the casket , freeing the wooden pegs from their sockets around the edge of the coffin . |
| 9 | Cut notches for the scions around the edge of the severed branches and insert a scion into each so that the green layer of tissue just beneath the bark ( cambium layer ) of both scion and stock meet each other . |
| 10 | The covering , with distinctive beads around the edge , was sold in a plastic bag marked Wye Valley Craft Association . |
| 11 | There are the high-rise towers around the edge of Newcastle with a motorway fifty or a hundred yards from their windows . |
| 12 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 13 | Respective coaches Lynn Evans and Tony Rodgers were in total agreement on one point — their dislike of the new ruck and maul law which both men insisted ‘ deprives the game of shape , creates offside situations around the edges which spoil back play and denies the attacking side the right to establish and sustain pressure ’ . |
| 14 | Put some NaOH pellets around the edge and place one grid on each drop , section side down . |
| 15 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 16 | The trade never solved the problem of the aesthetic positioning of the case-lid screws — too often they either interrupt or abut the upholstery pins around the edge of the lid . |
| 17 | I then make about nine teeth around the edge , with a three-square needle file . |
| 18 | Place the lamb in a large casserole and arrange remaining garlic , the lemon chunks and herbs around the edge . |
| 19 | Erm then there would be the idea of seating into this little er ornamental circular paved area , and seating at different parts around the edges . |
| 20 | There were candles around the edge of it and an old aluminium bucket beside it . |
| 21 | If that happened , when the sun came out the lingering nicotine would burn yellow marks around the edges of young foliage . |