Example sentences of "circle [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was only room in each circle for a set number of species .
2 He sat and stared out at the drizzle-veiled Circle for a while , and then buckled on his sword and left his room .
3 Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time .
4 There is a large circle for the head , circles for the eyes and nose and several adjacent circles for the mouth .
5 With only two men outside the circle for the first 15 overs , he could run riot in the way that Greatbatch has done recently for New Zealand .
6 Inevitably , many of the men around the Shah blame the Queen and her circle for the debacle that befell the monarchy in 1978 .
7 Roll out a little white fondant and , with different sized cutters , cut out various sizes of circle for the spots on the toadstool .
8 So it should be like , your close friends and family in the middle , Bob , who 's my brother , he said he 'd give me an appointment when I come back , I 'll ring him , and then I go to the outer circle for the rest of that phone session .
9 The end point of the two-link system ( Q ) is therefore constrained to describe a circle about the ground point of the third member , C. The rotational freedoms of ail three links are restrained and provided as a unique set of relationships dependent on one another .
10 A number of thick pillars , shrouded in a miasmic fuzz of mould , were placed around as roof supports while , in the centre of the chamber , was a circle of more squared-off pillars , as if someone had decided to use a megalithic circle as a set of buttresses .
11 Polar Circle as a replacement for HMS Endurance ?
12 The total number of representative points in the system is unchanged , so these circles consist of closely-spaces points that have ‘ condensed ’ from forbidden parts of k -space onto the nearest circle as the strength of the magnetic field increases .
13 So it 's Social Circle as the second leg of the yankee in trap one , danger is the defending champion actually , last year 's winner of the Pall Mall , Noel 's Turbo , so it 'll be interesting to see how he goes .
14 snags its circle through the eyes of a rabbit .
15 They made a wide circle through the grounds .
16 The operative straw seems to have been his exclusion from the inner circle during the twenty-four hours of the joint Anglo-French ultimatum , though back in August Clark had recorded quite dispassionately that ‘ a good deal of effort is going into trying to find a proper pretext for taking military action .
17 John heard Cissie Iris , the elder girl , singing a song with the principal boy from the circle during the show .
18 The party is now run under a kind of democracy of the dead , whereby huge nominal majorities can be run up in pre-ordained electoral charades , but the real contests and choices have been fixed in advance by an ever-narrowing circle of a favoured élite .
19 the circle of a fairy ring . )
20 Abrams , Oliver L. North and Alan D. Fiers , head of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Central American Task Force in 1984-88 , composed the inner circle of a " Restricted Interagency Group " which co-ordinated US activities in central America in 1985-86 , a period when Congress had banned military aid to the rebels .
21 The example below calculates the circumference and area of a circle of a given radius .
22 Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate .
23 I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him .
24 of the white-hot circle of the moon
25 Behind her was the circle of the roof and the deeper darkness where …
26 Grimly they hung on , staring at the graduated circle of the instrument , and the indicator that still rested at ‘ start engines ’ .
27 I had told her that Ivy had had luncheon with Olivia Manning , and had written : ‘ She is always the same and always in a circle of the lettered .
28 They were of the inner circle of the Josephite Temple , and knew more than most of the True Purpose of Deseret .
29 Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch .
30 To the circle of the ‘ head ’ add the heart shaped facial discs that are so characteristic of this owl and from this work out the eye position .
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