Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [verb] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three buses an hour are presently run around the estate . |
| 2 | Each programme is individually designed around the interests and needs of the student . |
| 3 | ‘ Inserting the device inside the brain , actually placing it in the lateral ventricle ensures that the chemical is evenly spread around the brain . ’ |
| 4 | Heavy fighting was also reported around the city of Khost . |
| 5 | Item No 3 : this key was probably made around the 1800s . |
| 6 | To make life even easier , shopping is often based around the car culture . |
| 7 | The loop is now formed around the bobbin case , and the thread drawn back through the needle by the take-up lever usually found on the front of the machine . |
| 8 | The rural community is now organized around the farm and farming and defined in opposition to the urban newcomers . |
| 9 | When your attention is so wrapped around the problems or situations in hand it is easy to lose sight of your own body 's requirements . |
| 10 | Branches containing important keywords related to the topic are then placed around the focus . |
| 11 | Branches containing important keywords related to the topic are then placed around the focus . |
| 12 | The statutory interest rate is usually fixed around the average overdraft rate , but you may be able to charge more if you have a private arrangement for interest in your terms of sale . |
| 13 | Foam plastic is still used around the cuff , but Cambrelle is now almost always used as the lining material in preference to leather . |
| 14 | He went out on to the balcony and the applause was still echoing around the ballroom . |
| 15 | If the foliage was closely arranged around the figure this would allow for the cutter 's inability to carve deeper than the distance between its projecting edge and the body of the angle grinder that powers it . |
| 16 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 17 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |
| 18 | For every emotive vocal outburst from the strained tonsils of Paul , there 's a feeling that reality is fast vanishing around the corner of The Franks ' collective mind . |
| 19 | What I 'd like to introduce lastly now is an approach that you can take to training to help yourselves and to help make it more effective and more systematic and what I 'd like to introduce to you is , is something called the training cycle and the rest of the course is actually based around the training cycle and I know Margaret you 've actually seen the training cycle a few weeks ago , I 'm not sure if , if any of the others are , any of the others familiar ? |
| 20 | I mean the bed sheet 's like ruffled around the bottom . |
| 21 | The askaris are now gathered around the vehicles , perhaps fearing that the Masai will attack them . |
| 22 | But as we have seen , the text will in fact be repeatedly scattered around the available ‘ gaps ’ on the disc . |
| 23 | Hitler 's politics were deliberately constructed around the fears of the ‘ little man ’ , their ‘ little lives ’ in ‘ little villages ’ and the appeal of the nation as giving some sense to this struggle . |
| 24 | In our society , a woman 's identity is still organized around the home , domestic work and child-rearing . |
| 25 | Their examination of Luton again found that the contemporary working class politics is essentially organised around the support and benefit of self and family . |
| 26 | To this end a tourniquet of rubber tubing or other elastic material is usually placed around the upper arm . |