Example sentences of "ring around [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is rough , black , about four feet high and three feet wide , and huge iron spikes have been hammered in a ring around the top .
2 But , for all the familiar historical reasons , they can not bring themselves to take decisive steps to tighten the ring around the IRA south of the border .
3 Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle .
4 In a ring around the gabbro are the sheeted dykes and in the outermost ring , marking the periphery of the massif are the pillow lavas .
5 Its capture would enable the King to seize Gloucester , open communications with his Welsh supporters and complete the defensive ring around the Royalist headquarters at Oxford .
6 The juxtaposition of seemingly disparate objects ; the distortion of scale ; the vaguely poetic resonances ( the wedding ring around the finger , the fingers on the piano keys etc. ) all contribute to the enigma of the images at once puzzling and yet trite .
7 Not having a glue gun I put small bits of hot melt glue in a ring around the face plate and heat them with a heat lamp until the glue melts and a bond with the circle of wood can be made .
8 The ‘ lesser ’ is smaller , with a pinker , shorter bill and a yellow ring around the eye .
9 The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be .
10 In trees , the tiny water tubes are in a ring around the inside of the trunk .
11 In the early 1960s the American containment ring around the Soviet bloc had been seriously breached only by the Soviet acquisition of military facilities in Cuba .
12 I think it 's necessary to set the scene for that to say that in fact as between the County Council and Barton Willmore there 's very little difference in what we see are the requirements for the ring around the city , we both have a figure of of six thousand and something quite small .
13 Those are the herring gull and the lesser black-backed gull , which are two terminal links in a series of forms which sort of form a ring around the pole .
14 Oh yeah , yes , you get , what , lots to happen , everyone goes in and it 's like a ring around the room , you know hmm
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