Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] around the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right at the end of the street was the wall of a very old building , the entrance being around the corner in Barnards Cross . |
| 2 | Consultant pathologist Dr Brian Rogers said Jacob had no congenital malformations and died from a lack of oxygen which was probably caused by the umbilical cord being around the neck before birth . |
| 3 | Now that the exchange rate is around the $1.40 to $1.45 mark there could be a case for going back but we might have the difficulty of seeming opportunistic . |
| 4 | This catchment area is around the lakes of Ullswater and Hawes Water from both of which water is piped to Manchester . |
| 5 | Wagamama is around the corner from the British Museum , through a discreet glass door , past a sand-filled ashtray and down some stairs to a big white basement with a shiny open kitchen at one end . |
| 6 | A more specific example of how the culture of work profoundly influences the industrial worker is around the issue of assessment . |
| 7 | By about five weeks the embryo is around the size of the smaller illustration and is highly developed . |
| 8 | Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next . |