Example sentences of "around the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on a solvent extraction plant in the Unilever oil mill at Erith , Minton deliberately adopted a style of drawing , physical and direct , that invites the viewer imaginatively to travel through and around the fantastical scene . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , two microseconds is a long time compared with many things that happen in and around the atomic nucleus , and the muon has a chance to initiate several fusions before it dies . |
| 3 | However , this was not due to my map reading ( which is impeccable by the way ! ) , but was the result of a mad dash around the dubious delights of central Luton in search of cycling gloves for Mr Jackson . |
| 4 | As a consequence , Ingolstadt has used selective street closure around the principal street , which is pedestrianised ( Figure 6.43 ) and that crossing it , which is closed to all bar buses and taxis . |
| 5 | Wandering around the cavernous warehouse that contains the Neighbours sets in Nunawading , Melbourne , she fondly points out various props which have all played a part in shaping the history of Ramsay Street . |
| 6 | It was quiet , too , every sound echoing around the cavernous dome . |
| 7 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 8 | This was ‘ An Unearthly Child ’ , the series opener whose eerie prologue , the camera tracking around the Victorian buttresses and stairwells of the 76 Totter 's Lane junkyard , was accompanied by a playing of the full 1′ 18′ title music . |
| 9 | They come in colours , open out from the doubled width and can be cut into stretchy lengths sufficient to wrap around the combined PP handle and line . |
| 10 | The parts can now be shaped up , the final cleaning up around the joint areas to be done after gluing . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the cast some in inexplicable garb convorted in anarchic fashion around the limited stage . |
| 12 | The best way to see the City is from the canals and we have included a ‘ Canal Bus ’ Pass , valid for the whole day around the famous canals ; this pass allows you to get off and on at a selection of stops for you to explore the city . |
| 13 | Around the famous circle bar gather a splendidly mixed company of intellectuals , bright sparks and couthie regulars . |
| 14 | Two women went around the famous Grand Prix circuit … on roller skates . |
| 15 | And as they walked around the 230 acre farm , all of it in the extended Less Favoured Areas , they were able to see at first hand why Hume Stewart-Moore and his son Michael were so successful . |
| 16 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 17 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |
| 18 | The bee then kneads the pollen into these baskets with its middle legs , moulding it around the slender peg that projects from each of them , so that when it flies back to its nest after a successful trip , it has a brilliant yellow button of food attached to each thigh . |
| 19 | Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender , peeling , silver trunk of a nearby birch tree . |
| 20 | This picturesque village is situated in a delph valley on the Yorkshire Wolds and centres around the mere and church with an extension eastwards along Main Street . |
| 21 | The Newton Personal Digital Assistants from Apple Computer Inc will be built around the Advanced RISC Computing Ltd ARM610 RISC : Apple says that the first version of Newton will be out early next year , and will be an electronic notepad , able to record and recognise handwriting and to straighten out rough sketches ; Cambridge-based Advanced RISC Machines , which is owned by Acorn Computers Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc says that Newton has an object-oriented executive and that the memory manager in the ARM610 provides specific support for object-oriented data handling . |
| 22 | The watch face consists of two different coloured hands — the shorter , red ‘ Flik ’ hand rotates around the inner circle of numbers ( 1–12 ) to indicate the hour of the day whilst the longer , blue ‘ Flak ’ hand ticks around the outer circle of numbers ( marked off in fives up to 60 ) for the minutes . |
| 23 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 24 | Always hovering like a vulture around the vulnerable , pressing on them the drinks and fattening foods to make all his dreams come true . |
| 25 | The ILP itself was rent with dissension between the openly proCommunist element around the Revolutionary Policy Committee , the parliamentary leadership and the Trotskyists . |
| 26 | He has used a fast government car to shake off at least one photographer , but there is a more prosaic explanation for Mr Lamont 's perambulations around Blackpool — his civil servants could not get through the security around the Imperial . |
| 27 | Some time around the Imperial year 2400 Grom engaged in the infamous eating contest described above . |
| 28 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 29 | Charsky gazed around the hushed audience , hoping to catch sight of a friend whose kind smile might give him strength . |
| 30 | Wrap the bandage around the injured limb , then spiral it up or down for one turn . |