Example sentences of "an [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | This additional angular motion imposed by the field is quantised , exactly as if the electron was constrained in an orbit around an atom . |
| 2 | Under such circumstances it was programmed to select an orbit around the largest near planetary mass , emitting a distress signal until it was recovered . |
| 3 | AN AMBLE AROUND ABINGTON PARK |
| 4 | The reigning world Formula One champion set a scorching 102.095 miles an hour around the streets of the Queensland holiday resort , clipping about two-tenths of a second off the previous record . |
| 5 | The Feslegen is built in an L-shape around a central courtyard where breakfast is served and is smoothly run by our friend Mutah . |
| 6 | The rooms form an L-shape around a pleasant lawn and the main house contains the bar , small lounge and restaurant where excellent Creole and Continental cuisine is served . |
| 7 | ‘ Marvellous , ’ says Robert Hardy , and the word rings like an echo around every friend you meet . |
| 8 | Testing by employers has been an issue around which , in the past , hostile stereotypes have been constructed . |
| 9 | The policy , which aimed to reserve 27 per cent of public-sector jobs for members of the lower castes , provoked caste-based violence across northern India ( although it received a large measure of support in the predominantly low-caste south ) and provided an issue around which Singh 's opponents within the Janata Dal could coalesce . |
| 10 | So that 's an hour-and-a-half around an hour-an-a-half and ** a-half around an hour-and-a-half and blown , yeah . |
| 11 | ‘ It smells just like a braaivleis , ’ says Coetzee , recalling many an evening around the campfire . |
| 12 | These subtler bodies , variously named etheric , astral and so on , can be seen by sensitives as an aura around the physical body . |
| 13 | But a home-grown industry to supply , spin off from , create an infrastructure around the big incomers has largely failed to develop . |
| 14 | In the more complicated case of Fig. 8–1c , the equilibrium is locally stable in that there is an interval around it such that the economy tends to converge ; but it is not globally stable . |
| 15 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 16 | Perry 's foray to the Orient marked the true beginning of America 's global role ; it marked the emergence on the world stage of Japan , after two centuries of a xenophobia that almost bordered on paranoia ; and it allowed the creation — nervous at first , but gradually becoming more and more pronounced — of a trans-Pacific axis between , put at its most basic , California and Honshu — an axis around which the fortunes of today 's Ocean , and much of today 's world , revolves . |
| 17 | The analytical procedure is to use each theme as an axis around which different elements of empirical data are grouped . |
| 18 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 19 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 20 | BGS geologists have made a systematic reconnaissance survey of the solid geology of an area around Dounreay as part of a nuclear-waste-repository study , commissioned by UK Nirex Ltd . |
| 21 | As part of a nuclear waste repository study , commissioned by UK Nirex Ltd , a team of seven BGS geologists made a systematic reconnaissance survey of the solid geology of an area around Dounreay covering 300 square kilometres . |
| 22 | Unlike many other small birds , they do not defend a large territory , but simply defend an area around the nest hole . |
| 23 | The finest silk for rug-making traditionally comes from China and an area around the Caspian Sea . |
| 24 | In September 1944 , as the Red Army advanced into Belorussia , Domanov 's Cossacks had been moved across Europe and assigned to an area around Tolmezzo in northern Italy , then under the control of Italian partisans . |
| 25 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 26 | Even so , B.T. Hudson has recently stressed that a spelling in D is irrelevant to one in E , and used twelfth-century evidence ( and E is a twelfth-century manuscript ) to show that in any case Mælbæth is a convincing English version of Macbeth , whose family ruled , conceivably by the early eleventh century with the title king , an area around the Moray Firth as far north as Sutherland and Caithness . |
| 27 | Some reports claimed that the Khmers Rouges had used tanks in an operation around Pailin . |
| 28 | In the meantime , the King gathered an army around himself at Shrewsbury and then headed for Oxford . |
| 29 | She was trying to straighten an anorak around Sonja 's pitifully slight frame . |
| 30 | And , to mix a metaphor , France 's lame ducks may have become an albatross around his neck . |