Example sentences of "around the base of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardy cyclamen and the winter aconite , Eranthis hyemalis , positively thrive in the dry soil ground around the base of mature trees . |
| 2 | Walking around the base of an active cone erupting these bombs is a bit like walking around a battlefield , with spent rounded cannonball bombs and shattered fragments of cannonballs lying around , and many big battered boulders exhibiting the bruises of a long volcanic siege . |
| 3 | The main road curves in a wide sweep around the base of Frostrow , a green hill forming a high barrier to the promised land , and enters Dentdale through an avenue of trees . |
| 4 | Hindus know the cosmic energy as the kundalini or serpent force , and this is said to be coiled around the base of the spine in every human being . |
| 5 | As the oldest trunks fall over , they are replaced by new shoots which appear continually around the base of the tree . |
| 6 | Perhaps Herpomyces is able to penetrate the host 's exoskeleton only where the exoskeleton is thin , as it is around the base of the sensory hairs that cover the cockroach antennae . |
| 7 | Cut away a neat edged circle around the base of trees and where the shrubs overhang the lawn . |
| 8 | 3 Wrap florists ' wire around the base of the pine-cones to create individual stems . |
| 9 | Scatter a few chocolate coins around the base of the cake . |
| 10 | Then arrange some flowers in the vase , remembering to position a few so that they overlap the top of the vase to soften as many hard lines as possible , with perhaps one or two leaves or flowers ranged around the base of the vase for a more natural effect . |
| 11 | Humans were milling around the base of the Ship . |
| 12 | Apply a bead of non-setting mastic all around the base of rebates on the timber subframe , and across the front sill platform |
| 13 | ‘ Most clubs have scuffs around the base of their walls where players have kicked them . |
| 14 | The trail goes on along the side of Snidley Moor , on around the base of Alvanley Cliff and by Simmonds Hill , Manley . |
| 15 | An unpruned bush may suffer from wind rock over winter , opening up a funnel around the base of the stem which could fill with water and freeze . |
| 16 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 17 | Sometimes you can see the results of this decay on the corporation landscape — scaffolding canopies thrown around the base of tower blocks to catch falling concrete , the cracked and corroded corners which drop off like snow , but unless you are looking for it you do n't notice it . |
| 18 | Situated around the base of each wing is a variable number of articular sclerites which consist of the tegulae , the humeral plate and the axillaries ( Fig. 27 ) . |
| 19 | A male , after some preliminary hoots , suddenly takes a flying leap at one of the huge plank-like buttresses that radiate like fins around the base of some tall forest trees . |
| 20 | There was a broken branch half-buried in the bed of leaves around the base of the tree under which he stood . |
| 21 | There was a narrow stone path , Alexei now saw , around the base of the promontory beyond the buttress . |
| 22 | The four shockcorded aluminium poles are inserted into split mesh sleeves and secured around the base of the Oxford pu nylon groundsheet by inserting each end of the poles into small eyelets . |
| 23 | ‘ Around the base of the tree I 've planted cyclamen bulbs which look marvellous in spring , together with the snowdrops . |
| 24 | A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush . |
| 25 | In spring the garden is a feast of blossom and bulbs : snowflake or Loddon lilies clustered around the base of the trees , violet scillas scrambling down the banks and big , old-fashioned daffodils crowded around the mulberry tree . |
| 26 | The wolves clustered around the base of the tree looked up with interest at their next meal talking to himself . |
| 27 | Whatever it was , it sent her flying ; one minute she was up , the next lying in an uncomfortable heap , half in , half out of a pile of brambles that was growing around the base of a tree in a haphazard , choking sort of way . |
| 28 | Trim away excess from around the base of the cake . |
| 29 | Using grey fondant trimmings , roll out and cut out long strips , 1cm ( ½ inch ) wide , to go around the base of the bus . |
| 30 | Lay the envelopes around the base of the postbox . |