Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concentrating on promoting funding for its health care and nutrition projects around the world , UNICEF is asking the public to support it by sharing a meal with someone at work or at home and setting aside a donation which would then go to fund its work . |
| 2 | He has also examined the well-publicised cluster of leukaemia cases around the Dounreay nuclear plant and concludes it is likely to have been caused by exposure to incoming oil workers rather than radiation from the plant . |
| 3 | Presumably a substantial fraction of any brain is needed to perform routine caretaking operations around the body , and a big body automatically needs a big brain for this . |
| 4 | Arrange all the cut vegetables around the bowl on a large platter . |
| 5 | This year there are going to be at least seven conferences , organised by the fan clubs around the country . |
| 6 | Youth club groups around the country have a chance to win a share of £5,000 worth of prizes while helping to enhance the environment in the Youth Action For The Earth competition . |
| 7 | One of the most important elements of the project design was the intention to employ locally recruited people ( as in the Kent project ; see later in this chapter ) to provide any extra care needed ; local recruitment was important for it was thus hoped to build on , or build up , neighbourhood contacts around the dementia sufferer and his or her family . |
| 8 | Gallant Warriors ( published by the Author , 32pp , sbk , $ 10.95 ) by Dennis D Bergstrom is a survey of propeller driven warbird fighter and bomber survivors around the world . |
| 9 | Correct exposure for dull quartz usually results in serious over-exposure of feldspars , with development of halation areas around the grains , while correct exposure of feldspars produces marked under-exposure of quartz grains . |
| 10 | After the Wall Street crash of 1929 , with the slump forcing up tariff barriers around the world , Ramsay Macdonald 's Second Labour Government clung dogmatically to Treasury orthodoxy and the defence of free trade . |
| 11 | The Symmetrys will be installed in 13 powerstations and seven administration sites around the UK , running Peterborough Software Ltd 's , OpenDoor human resources management software . |
| 12 | The move , a reflection of the growing anger being felt by ambulance workers around the country , was announced as Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke acknowledged the dispute , now entering its fifteenth week , was unlikely to be settled before Christmas . |
| 13 | Intermagnetics-Agra now has 11 video tape plants around the world , either operational or under construction . |
| 14 | Fan letters , fanzines and the many SF conventions around the world can be seen as responses to such experiences of reading SF . |
| 15 | The teams ran out on the pitch to a half-hearted roar and began to boot practice balls around the goal-mouths . |
| 16 | Particularly in the sciences , time presses heavily as research teams around the world struggle to be first to the finish , and then engage in priority disputes to determine just who was successful . |
| 17 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 18 | The Leathercloth works and the numerous smaller scale chemical firms around the Lea also continued to expand , although size and density of settlement never quite matched that of the south . |
| 19 | The next breakthrough to my mind centres around the lord 's table . |
| 20 | TV , advertising and movie moguls around the world wanted a slice of the Kylie action and sent her their offers on paper . |
| 21 | In recent months , scientists have observed coral reefs around the globe to be turning gradually white . |
| 22 | Guy Sterne would be about as much fun to be with as one of the barracuda swimming in the coral reefs around the island . |
| 23 | I used to get so tired , she would hold up my black practice pants around the waist , hoist me up and down saying ‘ On yer balls , Girl , on yer balls . |
| 24 | Other stock markets around the world followed the optimisic trend set by the big exchanges , though in many of them the trading was relatively light . |
| 25 | October 19th — stock markets around the world crash , representing loss of confidence in banks . |
| 26 | The Ministry of Finance gave no indication about the future role of the KIO , which invested Kuwait 's oil wealth in stock markets around the world . |
| 27 | Following disturbances in October 1989 , major stock markets around the world remained strong at the end of the year , with some reaching historical peaks in the last week of 1989 and the first week of 1990 . |
| 28 | The cover of this report illustrates the chain of economic linkages which begins with distilleries in the Highlands and Islands , and ends many thousands of miles away in export markets around the globe . |
| 29 | The problem is that more and more heat is being kept back by a blanket of gases surrounding the Earth ( including Carbon Dioxide and CFCs ) and as a result temperatures around the world are gradually increasing . |
| 30 | In an introduction to the 100-page report , the ILO says labour markets around the world are afflicted by persistently high unemployment , trade unions under pressure , a struggle for social protection in developing countries , the grim reality of modern-day slavery , and an epidemic of stress . |