Example sentences of "around the islands " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ SEABASS is in plentiful supply around the islands in late summer . |
| 2 | A romantic alternative for your honeymoon is to cruise around the islands and sheltered sea lochs of the of the West coast of Scotland , Britain 's last remaining wilderness . |
| 3 | There are lesser seas which must also be included , in particular the fifteen around the islands of the East Indian archipelago : the Sulu , Celebes and Molucca Seas , the Gulf of Tomini , the Halmahera , Ceram , Banda , Arafura ( which may or may not contain the Gulf of Carpentaria , depending on which atlas is used ) , Timor and Flores Seas , the Gulf of Boni , the Bali Sea , the Makassar Strait , the Java and Savu Seas ; and there is the Gulf of Thailand , the Strait of Malacca , the Singapore Strait and the Inland Sea of Japan . |
| 4 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 5 | ‘ Search for what , since you 're not after all the heroin , or whatever I 'm supposed to have been ferrying around the islands for a week ? ’ |
| 6 | Our close friend Bobby Radiasa , whom we trained as a soundman and took around the islands on our last expedition , was amongst the first intrepid handful of Bali 's surfers . |
| 7 | It was more than a kilometre around the islands from the lighthouse to the ship , and every wave , every rock was different and dangerous . |
| 8 | Interesting sailing around the islands , and many anchorages , some being developed . |
| 9 | During his visit , he and Sadat prayed together in the Nasr ( Victory ) mosque and they went on a cruise around the islands of the Nile . |
| 10 | I was lucky enough , through my association with the Stornoway Sea Cadets , to sail whalers and dinghies around the islands and to cruise extensively in their forty-five foot motor vessel and training ship , T.S . |
| 11 | The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals . |
| 12 | Le Monde of June 12 described the zone as " a strange mushroom shape " , varying in width from 12 to 24 nautical miles around the islands and with a corridor 10.5 miles wide ( i.e. the width of the islands ) stretching 200 miles southwards to the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 13 | Sir Hector , who was in Shetland yesterday for the fourth time this year , said monitoring of water and fish samples around the islands would continue for as long as was necessary . |
| 14 | It would introduce a no-go area to six sea areas around the islands . |
| 15 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |