Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] [verb] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it possible to organise state schools on the basis of a curriculum which is built around the age , aptitude and abilities of individual children ? |
| 2 | Child 's solution was to suggest that ideology can be imputed when it is ‘ affiliational ’ , that is when members join a group which is organized around the content of an ideology ( Child 1944 ) . |
| 3 | The Mobidip is a contract dipping service which is based around a trailer unit . |
| 4 | One day she was hanging around the shop when Nick Kent followed her in , angry . |
| 5 | First of all , sentence ( a ) is part of the descriptive frame which is woven around the actional frame , providing a particularly apposite ending with its echo of " the hospital " referred to in the opening sentence ( a cohesive tie of repetition ) . |
| 6 | The tourist style was emphasized by the glossy travel-book which was handed around the audience . |
| 7 | You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony . |
| 8 | In D. microlepis , it is , to the best of my knowledge , always complete whereas in D. quadrifasciatus it is broken around the dorsal line with a more pronounced blotch terminating the upper length of the bar , beginning again immediately under the operculum around the pectoral fins . |
| 9 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 10 | He was in his early fifties with wavy black hair and a craggy face which was scarred around the cheeks and mouth from teenage acne . |
| 11 | Mrs Johnson was a cheerful woman of enormous energy who was bustling around the shop , despite a pair of huge , heavy breasts which bulged beneath her dress . |