Example sentences of "around a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as it might around a prayer |
| 2 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 3 | Built around a mixture of video footage and computer information , its potential is enormous . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's nice to see a young lady what knows her way around a kitchen for a change . |
| 5 | The Last Honeymoon centres around a marriage on the rocks , and its charac ters are more than mere stereotypes . |
| 6 | Quite the opposite — happy faces , children cavorting in the snow , local beauties posing with shy smiles on their faces , outings by Zionist and socialist youth groups , schools , Yiddish and Hebrew placards , a family around a holiday table , a newly wedded couple . |
| 7 | So large , that when plans to flood their lowland were first announced , the Rut landers protested , ‘ But we do not wish our county to be just a towpath around a lake ! ’ |
| 8 | Its only function , though , is to show the viewer Constant Drachenfels , posing as a young man , without his mask , his arm thrown around a Daemon . |
| 9 | In Norway in winter the smell of freshly baked bread , and the warmth from the containers , are great attractions , and visitors seem to congregate around the bakery like bees around a honey pot . |
| 10 | The girls from the office had swarmed about him like bees around a honey jar , jockeying for position , anxious to be noticed . |
| 11 | Stretch rashers with the back of a knife until almost half as long again , then halve crossways and wrap each half around a prune . |
| 12 | Occasionally , however a border is absent , as at Silchester , in a room of building XIX ; in room 8 , Colliton Park , Dorchester ; and in a house " north of the Newport Road " , Caerwent.Alternatively , it can be of very large blocks , such as are found around a mosaic at Whittington Court , Glos . |
| 13 | Standing on a small peninsula surrounded by the beautiful Belle Mare beach , the buildings of the luxurious Saint Geran are grouped around a lagoon . |
| 14 | Long elegant fingers wrapped around a Gauloise . |
| 15 | By establishing a magnetic field around a component , fluid that will react to the field is poured over . |
| 16 | Tiny vessels fussed in her wake like pilot fish around a whale and aircraft roared past her portholes . |
| 17 | And if you rub a lemon slice around a bowl before whisking egg whites , you 'll get a better result . |
| 18 | Yeah she was mugged er ooh about six months ago and erm and she said she saw a chap walking around a fortnight ago with a gun in his bloody hand . |
| 19 | Whenever I put food out around a sett prior to an evening watch , I can usually hear a badger munching a peanut or two for some time before the first animal comes into view . |
| 20 | The well worn paths around a sett lead from the currently used exits to nearby dung pits , and then off towards the badgers ' feeding grounds in fields or gardens . |
| 21 | If you are just beginning to ride , I would strongly recommend at least half a dozen lessons on the lunge before you join the crocodile of horses marching nose to tail around a school . |
| 22 | There is often a cluster of topics around a subject or theme . |
| 23 | So we 've looked at asking question visuals We 've got involving trainees which , with which we talking about involving trainees think about this side of it erm I suppose this is one of the best ways to show Training should be chunky The idea is that you put in your input yeah you talked around a subject and give you some guidelines , then we get a chance to practise the participation . |
| 24 | A magic sprout from the mountains of Tibet is spun around a type of electronic roulette wheel , the unconscious yearnings of the citizenry acting as an invisible force on the brassica , thus producing an outcome in tune with the true needs of the community . |
| 25 | I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success . |
| 26 | The budget was based around a forecast of zero growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1992 , after a 5 per cent GDP reduction in the severe recession in 1991 . |
| 27 | The samples analysed here are all from the area around Rhulen in Wales ( Table 2.4 ) , and they include both pellets and the debris from in and around a nest . |
| 28 | It is not only the breeding pair that occupies the territory around a nest . |
| 29 | Experiments have been made in which powerful magnets were placed around a nest to distort the magnetic environment . |
| 30 | As the sun faded into a blood-red haze , Lieutenant Davis and his men finally sat down around a nest of campfires which a small detail had built earlier . |