Example sentences of "[noun] be around the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any involvement in the race issue was around the anti-Fascist campaigns of that time . |
| 2 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 3 | Olschewski said that profits were around the two figure million mark , but would n't provide more specific details . |
| 4 | By 1980 , registrations were around the 3,000 mark . |
| 5 | Firstly , the peak age for conviction is around the school-leaving age and the likelihood of conviction after that age declines ; and , secondly , a very significant proportion of the offences committed by juveniles are very trivial — stealing milk bottles for example . |
| 6 | An area of defensiveness is around the Labour Party because that 's been one of my main arenas of political activity for the last eight , nine years or so . |
| 7 | Some of the finest coastal walks on Skye are around the Duirnish peninsula in the north-west of the island where there are spectacular cliffs and bizarre rock stacks . |
| 8 | That value is around the Scottish average . |