Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] around [art] [adj] " 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 | It looked awkward , but not heavy , unless you take into account the fact that this linoleum was rolled around a fifty pound salmon . |
| 3 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 4 | Ben Hur 's chariot race was re-enacted around the Roman Wall , too neatly preserved in Wallsend Park . |
| 5 | I suppose I half-hoped that he would zap me with extinction the way he had zapped June with orgasm the night before but his horrible middle finger was folded around a reeking cheroot and showed no sign of flexing . |
| 6 | A red silk scarf was tied around the bloated neck . |
| 7 | The search space was organised around a global uniform data-base , the blackboard , and so different configurations of knowledge bases could easily be tested . |
| 8 | Given Brainerd 's background in the publishing industry , mainly newspapers , and the fact that he had just left Atex it is hardly surprising that the program was designed around the traditional ‘ cut and paste ’ working methods . |
| 9 | ‘ We are having continuing dialogue with both Nigel and Frank Williams because everything in our advertising campaign for next year was geared around the two of them . |
| 10 | A black leather suite was arranged around a white marble fireplace standing starkly against slate-grey walls and carpet . |
| 11 | This impetus was centred around an urban renewal policy that — along with explicitly segregationist policies in federal public housing — cut off minority communities , displaced large sections of these communities and concentrated them between expressways , office complexes , stadiums and civic centers . |