Example sentences of "[noun] be [adj] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lunch time snacks are available around the swimming pool , and there are lounges , bar , gymnasium , restaurant and roof garden . |
| 2 | A very limited number of guards was apparent around the centre . |
| 3 | Fishing boats , barges and lighters were busy around the ships , full of men smashing the ice with picks , hammers and mallets . |
| 4 | They had also been floating in a jar of pickle in the curiobiological museum down in the cellars of Unseen University , since live salamanders were extinct around the Circle Sea . |
| 5 | The only section of the court that had a reputation for some seriousness and probity was that around the Queen . |
| 6 | A clear footprint is evident around the centre of this insert , which must correspond to ligand binding to the GA ( TC ) sites . |
| 7 | Yet it is the common experience of most palaeontologists that , just as lithological facies are persistent around the world , so are the fossils which they contain . |
| 8 | The situation is worst around the Aral Sea , where only 10 per cent of the local water supply is fit to drink . |
| 9 | As she had expected , the map was vague around the edges . |
| 10 | You will see that most sailors are tidy around the boat particularly with loose ends of rope , and there is a very good safety reason . |
| 11 | Colman 's last screen appearances were a fleeting one in Michael Todd 's all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ) and finally in The Story of Mankind ( 1957 ) . |
| 12 | The boy 's face was grubby around the mouth . |