Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [vb pp] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the resultant industry was concentrated around the new town of Middlesbrough , but in 1864 the Middleston Iron Company was founded . |
| 2 | The traditional village was centred around the church with its white walls and red or grey stonework . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 5 | The most reproducible decrease in urine acid output in response to normal food was observed around the time breakfast was usually eatenand was abolished by 36 hours of treatment with ranitidine . |
| 6 | WHEN the famous Green Jacket was draped around the shoulders of Fred Couples last April , the American might well have shuddered . |
| 7 | Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily . |
| 8 | 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 . |