Example sentences of "built around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FROM desk-top micros to the largest mainframes , conventional computers are built around a single processor and a single store of memory . |
| 2 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 3 | She dreamt of a life in a Tuscan farmhouse , with an ancient barn built around a central courtyard , bathed in the apricot hues of an Italian sun . |
| 4 | The New Wave films that do work tend to be those built around a single , larger-than-life character , like Tom Jones or Alfie ( 1966 ) , in which Michael Caine plays a cockney Don Juan who ‘ do n't believe in making anyone unhappy , not if you do n't have to do it ’ but is forever breaking the hearts of young girls , until the sight of one of his middle-aged victims going through an abortion forces him into repentance . |
| 5 | It looks out across wide lawns to mild uneventful Northamptonshire countryside , and the private road which runs in front of it winds down into Hulcote , a beauti — ful horseshoe-shaped model village built around a generous green . |
| 6 | In these songs , the great variety of cries and moans are repeated over and over in ordered patterns built around a basic unit or syllable that is equivalent to a note in our music . |
| 7 | The plant is built around a modular system which means the reaction vessels can be used for various purposes and new parts can be added when required . |
| 8 | Built around a courtyard , it originally housed craftsmen , but later became the main market and customs house for Bohemia . |
| 9 | It is built around a piece of land that juts out into the Atlantic , with beaches on the north side of the slender neck and the harbour on the south side . |
| 10 | The 4080 series hubs are IEEE 10BaseT compliant and are built around a single , integrated circuit to ensure years of trouble-free service . |
| 11 | It 's she who 's the focus of the frenzied promotional campaign of press interviews , TV appearances and live PAs that will begin this month with the release of the single , ‘ Money Love ’ — a gloriously busy , impossible-to-ignore , ‘ wall of sound ’ — type production , built around a blazing fuzz-guitar riff . |
| 12 | Built around a mixture of video footage and computer information , its potential is enormous . |
| 13 | They must , however , take the subject to the limits of current knowledge and they are increasingly being based on the concept of a course built around a major ( ten man-year ) project . |
| 14 | The oldest of the three by far was Carlism , a popular cause built around a dynastic dispute within the Spanish royal house of Borbón . |
| 15 | Diss itself is an interesting part-Tudor town , built around a 6 acre lake . |
| 16 | The collection comprises 15,000 pieces of thirteenth- to eighteenth-century ceramic ware , built around a nucleus of three collections , and already in the process of being catalogued . |
| 17 | Iwerks Entertainment Inc , a Burbank , California company that includes Sun Microsystems Inc among its backers , says it plans to open movie park entertainment centres that will combine large-screen formats , simulation and virtual reality technologies to create a futuristic cinematic city : it plans to open the first Cinetropolis in August at the Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard , Connecticut , and has also signed an agreement with the Japanese trading firm Itochu Corp to launch a network of Cinetropolises throughout the Far East and Asia ; Cinetropolis will be a virtual city of cinemas featuring five separate sites : an Iwerks Video 360 circular theatre an Iwerks 870 giant screen theatre , an Iwerks Virtual Reality simulation theatre , and a live performance theatre , all built around a street scene featuring bars , restaurants , retail stores and promotional marketing space . |
| 18 | The high-speed monochrome GlobalXM is built around a 25MHz R3000A chip and has a performance of 130,000 Xstones and price of $4,016 for a 17″ monitor with 4Mb memory ; GlobalXG is a similar model with 256 shade grey-scale functionality and 80,000 Xstone performance at from $5,475 ) ; GlobalXP is built around the 40MHz R3000A and offers 256 colours and 130,000 Xstone performance at $8,048 , while Global PEX is a similar colour model with floating point accelerator to support PEX , and GlobalXC is the lower 25MHz clock speed with colour and 80,000 Xstones performance , priced from $6,040 . |
| 19 | Developed in C++ with a client-server architecture , it is built around a Dynamic Application Dictionary and the ProActive Toolset , which enables users to customise applications without changing source code . |
| 20 | This well established three star hotel is part of the international Mercure chain and is situated in a quiet street in the heart of the city , built around a private courtyard . |
| 21 | The Porteverde Holiday Village is a complex of Mediterranean-style and apartment block buildings built around a yacht marina a mile from the centre of town . |
| 22 | The spacious , airy rooms , built around a lush garden and two tranquil courtyards , now provide a restaurant and traditional accommodation run by the Perkhofers since 1845 . |
| 23 | The palazzo is built around a courtyard with a truncated tower at its base . |
| 24 | The Magic Kingdom , with spires and turreted castle at its heart , now shares as many as 150,000 visitors a day with the Epcot Centre ( seven futuristic theme pavilions and an 11-nation world showcase , built around a massive silver geosphere ) and the Disney MGM Studio theme park . |
| 25 | The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost . |
| 26 | The hotel is built around a nineteenth-century palace , with covered walkways to the modern bedroom wings . |
| 27 | He calls for a reformed profession built around a new " common enterprise " and involving " wide active cooperation " among its members . |
| 28 | It is built around a large number of lists of attainments , some of which subdivide attainment targets in English , Mathematics and Science . |
| 29 | Longacre ( 1979 ) claims that ‘ in narrative discourse , a narrative paragraph is built around a thematic participant , occasionally a small set of thematic participants ’ ( Longacre , 1979 : 118 ) . |
| 30 | The same relation between pure and applied social psychology can be continued in a social psychology , which might be built around a universal conception of social representation , with or without a rhetorical emphasis . |