Example sentences of "green [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of enduring significance was the concept of a green girdle around the perimeter . |
| 2 | Many local authorities withdrew or reduced their contributions and for a while Unwin financed the continuation of the Committee 's work himself to publish a Second and final report in March 1933 , which made a more detailed proposal for a narrow green girdle around London . |
| 3 | It 's like a real dayglo green colour , like fluorescent lime and if you sprinkle a little bit on the side of the toilet , when you go down to wipe it off you 've got that green ring around it , like … alien 's blood ! ’ |
| 4 | Some of it misses and there 's suddenly a livid green stain around her mouth and down her front . |
| 5 | She starts to cough and there 's faintly green foam around her mouth . |
| 6 | So she was under the sea ; this was green water around her , not air . |
| 7 | That the two are almost invariably found together is a commonplace : but why , at Market Harborough , does the church of St Dionysius spring grandly up from the market place without any green space around it , without a vestige of a church-yard ? |
| 8 | The Green Belt around London has been preserved not because someone put a price on it but because voters in the Home Counties wanted to stop the city sprawling outwards seemingly for ever . |
| 9 | Claybury lay in the Green Belt around London and therefore money-generating residential or industrial development on any large scale was proscribed . |
| 10 | One focus within the countryside lobby was the agitation for a green belt around London . |
| 11 | In the meantime proposals have been submitted for private-sector mini New Towns in the green belt around London and beyond . |
| 12 | A Green Belt around the city will remain an important planning policy . |
| 13 | Planning issues would also be important and DEW planned to press for a green belt around Darlington . |
| 14 | Time now to run , to fix her eyes on that tow-headed lad with the green scarf around his stringy , chicken 's neck and never lose sight of him , no matter who got in her way , to catch him and crucify him if necessary to find out where her bag had gone . |
| 15 | She laid her cup on the table , and leaned back in her chair , her statuesque pose accentuated by the classic fawn dress and the dark green scarf around her throat . |
| 16 | You at the helm of the small , wooden sailing boat with the green line around it . |
| 17 | Ahead lay the curiously curving ridge of Eggardon Hill , forming a stark silhouette against the sky and curving like a giant green bowl around the valley . |
| 18 | From this viewpoint we can see that , although the centre of Funchal is very built-up , there is still a lot of green land around the city . |
| 19 | Here the sea views soon disappear but there is a panorama of the gentle green landscape around Branscombe . |
| 20 | Wrap green ribbon around the edge of the drum and secure . |
| 21 | To finish the roses , lightly brush green colouring around edge of each petal . |