Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you achieve this , then a record deal is just around the corner , and you will have earned yourself a strong negotiating position which should enable you to sign the deal you want and not the first deal that is offered . |
| 2 | If the Brigade was still around the village and things got a bit quieter I would keep that date , and treat them to British steak and kidney , etc . |
| 3 | Home Rule was just around the corner . |
| 4 | Daylight was just around the corner however , but by the time daylight did arrive , although she and her pride were very much certain that she 'd see Vendelin Gajdusek in hell before she ever spoke to him again , certain other practicalities had entered her head . |
| 5 | But now that retirement is just around the corner we are all really looking forward to spending more time there . |
| 6 | Labour has campaigned strongly on its £1 billion ‘ recovery package ’ while Mr Lilley , a firm believer in Thatcherite non-intervention , has had to rely on promises that recovery is just around the corner . |
| 7 | He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . |
| 8 | Children in need night 's just around the corner , so come into Radio Nottingham soon and purchase your Pudsey . |
| 9 | For years articles like this have been heralding the ‘ impending ’ arrival of a new British Standard for plain clay roofing tiles : good news was just around the corner . |
| 10 | Equally , however , there are respected industry commentators who are certain that the first agreed takeover of a building society is just around the corner . |
| 11 | However , Gav 's biggest collar is just around the corner . |
| 12 | However , Gav 's biggest collar is just around the corner . |
| 13 | However , Gav 's biggest collar is just around the corner . |
| 14 | If the Doors comparisons are to be believed — which they are not — success is only around the corner if the amount of hype for Oliver Stone 's movie is anything to go by . |
| 15 | But a new row was just around the corner . |
| 16 | Caricature was just around the corner . |
| 17 | John Dunlop 's filly has yet to find the target this season but her four-and-three-quarter lengths fourth to Only Royale in the Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks last month suggested that her turn was just around the corner . |
| 18 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 19 | Campaigning was largely around the qualities of presidential candidates ; economic reform and the position of Romania 's ethnic minorities were the substantive issues . |
| 20 | The hotel is just around the corner , maybe a few corners , but almost no distance . |
| 21 | In the early stages of the Depression he relied on optimistic statements to keep people 's spirits up — " prosperity is just around the corner " he said in 1930 — and on gaining the voluntary co-operation of business leaders in maintaining employment and wages . |
| 22 | As it turned out , rather too much excitement was just around the corner . |
| 23 | The malais began to think a triumph was just around the corner . |
| 24 | When Sir Eric was appointed Rector in 1985 everyone was congratulating themselves that the financial squeeze on the universities , which had lasted 15 years , was now at an end and that stable funding was just around the corner . |
| 25 | The Manchester Business School and Cambridge University both reckon that the boom on the high street is just around the corner . |