Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Translated from the original French , the 16 takes of fantasy and fable in Flammes de Pierre are set around the Mont Blanc range which the author knows well . |
| 2 | Most relocation policies are developed around the issue of the finances involved in buying and selling property . |
| 3 | Index futures are traded around the world , in North America , Europe and the Far East . |
| 4 | Nodules are formed around the larvae mainly in the wall of the caecum and colon when , due to their size , they can travel no further within the arteries and subsequent rupture of these nodules releases the young adult parasites into the lumen of the intestine . |
| 5 | A direct and obvious example is that many marine animals are dispersed around the globe by ocean currents . |
| 6 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 7 | But the new workers of the modern age must live , and so homes are built around the machine 's food supplies ; crowded and sprawling , urbanism begins forming part of the machine 's superstructure . |
| 8 | Could schools be built around the project method , in which the tyranny of traditional subjects was loosened ? |
| 9 | The other Commando units were spread around the village in a very tight perimeter , and in places very close to the German positions . |
| 10 | Harvey 's two kids were chasing around the trees in their pyjamas . |
| 11 | The ECG also monitors the amount of blood being pumped around the body — crucial in major surgery where blood loss and supply have to be carefully balanced . |
| 12 | Pictures were flashed around the world of the two of them cavorting recklessly on a beach . |
| 13 | Dinner parties were built around the episodes . |
| 14 | Demand did not stretch to either Lloyds , which struggled to end 4 firmer at 359p after reports of a large line of stock being offered around the market both late on Wednesday and early yesterday , or Abbey National , off 2 at 266p . |
| 15 | Through the holes in the side of the Hongkong Banking Group building in Bishopsgate , papers fluttered on desks , books were scattered around the rooms . |
| 16 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 17 | An incision is made in the lower right abdomen through which the appendix is located , clamped and removed — a purse string suture is inserted around the stump and is pulled closed . |
| 18 | Their programme is built around the friendships , rivalries , correspondence and music of four of the 18th-century 's most successful and prolific composers — Telemann , Handel , Bach and Bononcini . |
| 19 | The research is based around the Peterborough Country Music Festival , currently a successful local/national event . |
| 20 | Indeed , it floats about in fluid so its physical position varies , but every location along the chromosome is precisely addressed in terms of linear order along the length of the chromosome , just as every location along a computer tape is precisely addressed , even if the tape is strewn around the floor rather than being neatly rolled up . |
| 21 | The rug-making industry is based around the towns of Srinagar , Amritsar , Jaipur , Agra , Bhadohi , Mirzapur , Khamariah and Ellora ( in order of general quality ) . |
| 22 | Concerned by what he had seen , but not aware that disaster was imminent , he telephoned the colliery Manager at his home ; the Manager instructed that a fence be erected around the subsidence . |
| 23 | The work in the school this term is centred around the theme of the ‘ Natural World ’ and ‘ Living Things ’ . |
| 24 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 25 | Major area of the damage to the aircraft was centred around the propellers and undersides of the aircraft . |
| 26 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |
| 27 | ‘ The concept for the last album was based around the idea that , if we 're going to use music to stop the destruction of the world , we need to look outwards . |
| 28 | Heavy fighting was reported around the cities of Shaqlawa and Sulaimaniya on April 13 in which 150 government troops were said to have been killed . |
| 29 | Fighting was concentrated around the towns of Bosanski Brod in the north and Neum in the south . |
| 30 | In contrast the American pairings were a mere nine under par between them , albeit on an afternoon when the wind was swirling around the course causing all sorts of problems with club selection . |