Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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1 | Since those early days , John Bull have expanded , opening many shops around the country , leading to the opening of the new factory in 1984 . |
2 | He pointed to the young dancers weaving intricate patterns around the stiff men in dark suits . |
3 | It was all a fuss about nothing , another example of the national genius for weaving intricate variations around the simplest event . |
4 | The new obsession with trendy design was indulged in by scattering diamond-shaped symbols around the pages . |
5 | There is no doubt in my mind that the many years spent wrestling indifferent cars around the track , trying to make up for what Lauda calls the ‘ evil ’ that dwells in all of them , must take its toll . |
6 | The automobile has turned the city inside out , ranging new communities around the periphery and letting the centre rot : not far from the centre is an old slum district where the gangs operate . |
7 | Six weeks Nuclear Electric , with its amateur crew , won the race by just one hour and ten minutes after racing 28,000 miles around the world , against nine other yachts . |
8 | ACRI and Cray will convert applications for both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
9 | Advanced Computer Research — ACRI — and Cray will also collaborate to convert and optimise applications codes on both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
10 | With King 6-4 ahead and lying two shots around the jack , Corsie produced a perfectly weighted bowl that threaded its way between King 's two counters to take shot . |
11 | With King 6-4 ahead and lying two shots around the jack , Corsie produced a perfectly weighted bowl that threaded its way between King 's two counters to take shot . |
12 | Senior hospital caterer Jimmy Kikozi said : ‘ I have nothing to say about their food , but I imagine we will now see people wearing happy hats around the place . |
13 | Scrolling through documents is noticeably faster , but the main boost is noticed when moving big chunks around the screen — grabbing a window and shifting it results in a much faster update than you would see with a bog standard VGA card — even a Tseng Labs ET4000 chip set unit ( the ET4000 chipset is probably the fastest of the non-accelerated chipsets ) . |
14 | BUILDING MORE CASTLES AROUND THE MOUNTAINS |
15 | But we do ourselves no service if we neglect to ask fundamental , difficult questions about our understanding of some of the key issues , processes and terms involved ; if we ignore contradictions in our underlying discourses ; if we fail to grapple with the limitations of our assumptions about pedagogy and how subjects and subjectivities are formed ; and if we fail to notice how economic , political and cultural differentiations are undermining older fixities around the ethnic , class and political identities of the minority communities . |
16 | I ca n't remember them reading any books or even having any books around the house to read . |
17 | The added advantage for parents is that they can listen to audio tapes in the car on their way to work or as a background while they are busy doing other things around the house . |
18 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
19 | Hilary batted with style , in the manner of a latter-day Raffles , distributing possible catches around the lawn . |
20 | Endill kept finding empty bottles around the house . |
21 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
22 | Playing open chords around the bottom frets feels fine ; the top two strings have been left a little high at the nut , but the E , A , D and G are perfect . |
23 | The Japanese team are only playing four teams around the country , in Leeds , London , Exmouth and Bristol , and their final game will be against England A at the new rugby centre at Castle Croft in Wolverhampton . |
24 | Bob Busby is still busy at his bulletin board , rearranging old notices around the new one , like a fussy gardener tidying a flower bed . |
25 | And still to come is Replay Theatre Company , with its current production ‘ The Zoo Story ’ , which has been touring special schools around the province . |
26 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
27 | The other two squads had further to go in attacking similar installations around the northern or inner caisson . |
28 | The mixed doubles is another throwback to a different age , with the men and women now spending most of their careers following separate paths around the world . |
29 | Following worldwide use of the oral vaccine , 's time was largely taken up in visiting various countries around the world and action as an adviser to the polio vaccination programme . |