Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did start to walk towards the crowds around the Ship . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 6 | Dusk was drifting in over the park , covering the snow in gritty grey shadows , bringing the houses around the park alight almost simultaneously . |
| 7 | They had already put several million pounds into a launch of the products around the world . |
| 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 | Place the vegetables around the hutch . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Or are we just creatures of our time , trapped by our failure to see the solutions around the corner of our life-span ? |
| 12 | He could not hear the mumblers around the Cabinet table . |
| 13 | Few people were about , owing to the lateness of the hour , and the guards around the entrance of each tower she passed , glanced briefly at her and turned away , seeing only a woman of indeterminate age , muffled in a hooded cloak such as was worn by serving-women everywhere . |
| 14 | We 've even matched the colour of the gift wrap to the decorations so the presents around the tree help balance the overall effect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ln the parks the eucalypti were alive with lorikeets , and flocks of parakeets chased each other around the streets ; while spotted diamond birds clung to the leaves of trees in every enclosure , and yellow-throated honey-eaters crept along branches in the ravines around the town . |
| 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 | By moving the feet around the board try and get your wake to be as quiet as possible and watch how it differs as you move your weight around . |
| 19 | The Duchess said : ‘ There are very few people who can fail to be moved by the tragic plight of the refugees around the world . |
| 20 | The inside walls are rigged with brackets of steel , like the brackets around the crematoria . |
| 21 | For example , The brackets around the port numbers in " IN " and " OUT " are optional . |
| 22 | The patrols around the perimeter seemed more nervous and aggressive . |
| 23 | Mr Byers said the MoD was ‘ touting the work on the frigates around the country ’ , making inquiries to find other yards where it could be completed . |
| 24 | Yes what er happened , th there was erm erm er the radioactive cloud that came up was swept by the winds around the world and in fact as it went over the United Kingdom er it happened to rain on er Cumbria and North Wales so some of this radioactivity was brought down , it settled on the grass and got into the soil . |
| 25 | Tilney , you take the parents around the fireplace . |
| 26 | The remainder comes mostly from the countries around the Mediterranean , but what the original almond growers lack in quantity they apparently make up for in quality . |
| 27 | Among the mountains around the lake , Kurdish tribes , in their distinctive and spectacular garb , lived as their ancestors had lived for centuries . |
| 28 | Suggestions included removing the subsidence temperature inversion which trapped the smog , using ground-based fans , helicopters or thermal means ; eliminating the sunlight and thus the smog by producing a gigantic parasol of white smoke laid by aircraft high over the city ; removing the smog through tunnels in the mountains around the Los Angeles basin using huge fans ; and seeding the air with some sort of agent that would ‘ neutralize ’ the smog . |
| 29 | Elizabeth was going to subscribe to the mysteries around the world , she loved reading Amanda Howard mysteries , but she was also looking forward to tomorrow because it was the first of April , April fool day , April fools day . |
| 30 | 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 . |