Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] around " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] . |
2 | A low whispering sound echoed around the room . |
3 | Then he climbed on to the winner 's rostrum and became the proudest man in the world as the British National Anthem echoed around the massive Montjuic Stadium . |
4 | As the sun dissolved in the west , a surreal pink haze rolled around the hollows of the plateau and obscured the foothills and forests to the north , lapping silently into the corries . |
5 | As Anne Rampling she writes modern romantic novels and as A N Rouquelaure she writes highly avant-garde sado-masochistic pornography based around the sleeping beauty legend . |
6 | Distinct , medium coarse granular cytoplasmic staining concentrated around the nuclear lobes , with filamentous granular staining , forming a network in and around the neutrophil cytoplasm ( type 1 pattern ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
7 | A tight little smile played around Jennifer 's mouth . |
8 | The famous Irish roar echoed around the Cotswold Hills as Montelado shot clear two out in the Trafalgar House Supreme Novices ' Hurdle , winning by 12 lengths from the Pipe-trained Lemon 's Mill . |
9 | Ms Alberstein 's song is a powerful modern version of an ancient Aramaic ballad sung around the Passover ‘ Seder ’ table by Jews celebrating the Exodus from Egypt . |
10 | At £95 , the two hour long chance to tread surely the most glamorous footplate in preservation is the same price as the standard half-day long course based around the controls of Great Western Castle Class ‘ Defiant ’ . |
11 | He was out of the room before she could open the box , a dark blue leather affair , lined with white velvet , against which lay a fine gold chain with a small oval locket set around the edge with seed pearls . |
12 | The MD110 is also available as an open standard interface based around the European Computer Manufacturers Association standard for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications , CSTA . |
13 | One scuffed heavy shoe is braced against the floor , the other dangles in space , with the turn-up riding high above it to reveal a thick grey sock crumpled around the ankle . |
14 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
15 | Ante Markovic , the President of the Federal Executive Council ( federal Prime Minister ) and one of Yugoslavia 's most popular politicians , announced on May 25 that he was planning to set up a new political party based around his government team and with a programme of Western-style economic and political reforms , to contest multiparty elections to the Federal Assembly expected before the end of 1990 . |