Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.

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1 By the end of the month , however , a UN technical mission appeared to have implemented a truce between the two sides at least for the areas around the airport and the docks .
2 In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven .
3 Cut notches for the scions around the edge of the severed branches and insert a scion into each so that the green layer of tissue just beneath the bark ( cambium layer ) of both scion and stock meet each other .
4 The dollar series shows steady growth throughout most of the last two decades , with the exception of the periods around the two major stock market declines in 1974/5 and late 1987 .
5 Such observations may help to explain the protracted sense of crisis in the humanities ; but the model also offers the possibility of regrouping the traditional concerns of the humanities around the notion of ‘ being ’ , if that concept can be allowed .
6 The Duchess said : ‘ There are very few people who can fail to be moved by the tragic plight of the refugees around the world .
7 The further the animal 's centre of gravity is off the ground , the more work is demanded of the muscles around the joints and girdles , and like all metabolic activity this must release heat .
8 But yesterday Norman Bainbridge , of Cleveland Avenue , said students regularly ignored restrictions and parked on both sides of the roads around the college , causing havoc for motorists and blocking driveways .
9 During the day the bed is moved into the shade of the arcades around the courtyard where you sit or lie upon it outside your door , and catch whatever breeze is going .
10 As some of the leaders of this effort moved into top positions , they began to strengthen the division leadership and to exert their influence in various meetings of the leaders of the businesses around the world .
11 Sgurr a' Chaorachain and Beinn Bhan rise to the north of the road , the latter being especially worth a visit for a dramatic view of the cliffs around the Coire na Feola .
12 Some of the structures around the compound were rebuilt and the enclosure extended westwards , beyond which were a series of six additional buildings erected along the ridge .
13 Because of the regular placement of the chairs around the fire , they were quite close together — and yet the small spaces between them quickly became boundaries .
14 ‘ Well , I guess I agree with the committee 's original view that we should not put any major new investment in the UK , ’ Klepner replied , knowing full well that this line would be supported by Mueller and most of the Americans around the table .
15 The government should bear in mind that Virgin did not have permission to fly 95 per cent of the routes around the world ; it was unfair for British Airways to fly a ‘ loss leader ’ on the one route where Virgin did have permission .
16 The same could be said of the routes around the west of London .
17 Most of the important taxonomic features are found on the ventral side particularly the arrangements of the plates around the jaw ( Fig 1 ) .
18 They had already put several million pounds into a launch of the products around the world .
19 Many of the swamps around the flood plains of African rivers turn to hard sun-baked mud during the dry season , yet one fish , the lungfish , manages to live in them and survive from season to season by breathing air .
20 To this day a few of the fields around the village tell of its past history .
21 While many of the animals around the vanished Olduvai lake resembled those of today , the fossils attest to some bizarre creatures .
22 Between August 6 and 12 the NOAA satellite registered 11,904 fire points in the Amazon basin , with most of the fires around the fringes of the forest .
23 After that I did a lot of arranging of the parts around the dynamics , and we recorded the whole thing at Eel Pie ( Pete Townshend 's studio ) .
24 And , of course , as children erm , er so I think I can speak for the rest of the children around the base , the erm cigarettes , er not cigarettes , beg your pardon
25 your invitation erm on Friday , I 've prepared a very brief statement on erm our analysis of the relative erm suitability of each of the sectors around the Greater York area to accommodate a new settlement .
26 Inevitably , many of the men around the Shah blame the Queen and her circle for the debacle that befell the monarchy in 1978 .
27 Most of the men around the Shah were tied to him by fear , by devotion or by the tentacles of corruption .
28 Projenor was established in response to fears about the corridor effect and aims to promote the economic , cultural and environmental restructuring of the regions around the Tunnel .
29 But he did start to walk towards the crowds around the Ship .
30 The inside walls are rigged with brackets of steel , like the brackets around the crematoria .
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