Example sentences of "circle around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a square or round table they can be arranged in a circle around a group of tall candles or a bowl of fruit . |
| 2 | For a high-tea or supper meal spread smoked haddock paste on fingers of hot toast and arrange them in a circle around a dish of scrambled eggs . |
| 3 | In front of the building is a row of white-painted stones and some cactus-like sisal plants forming a circle around a patch of grass . |
| 4 | In Tynan v. Balmerls ( 1966 ) forty pickets in a continuous circle around a factory ( which had the effect of sealing off the highway ) were held not to be legalized by the Act of 1906 because their action was a nuisance at common law and an unreasonable use of the highway . |
| 5 | The grass of the lawn is green in a circle around a sprinkler ( not turned on ) and in a smaller patch around a longstanding leak in the hose ; the rest is brown grass or bare , cracked earth . |
| 6 | The First Church of Christ the Spiritualist was arranged in a huge circle around a large pile of groceries . |
| 7 | She came full circle around the house , and opened a door to find herself looking up again at the dangling corpse statue . |
| 8 | The threshing floors lay bare , pale , trodden and packed down in a circle around the post where the oxen had circled . |
| 9 | Stories , and the whole collection , circle around the same events , reapproaching and repeating them until we see them whole and she is healed of them : the ‘ trying times ’ of Pakistan 's civil war , the deaths of her mother and best-loved sister . |
| 10 | A bowler who strays wide of the off or leg stumps gives the batsman ‘ width ’ and enables him to glance , cut , and deflect , opening up scoring opportunities in a 360 degree circle around the bat . |
| 11 | Kalchu , Chola and the children were eating , sitting in a circle around the empty hearth — a pit in the earth surrounded by stones . |
| 12 | The net can be positioned either as a box or in an approximate circle around the warren site . |
| 13 | Cut away a neat edged circle around the base of trees and where the shrubs overhang the lawn . |
| 14 | I swung in a wide circle around the machine climbing slightly to loose speed and came in at him again from dead ahead and slightly above . |
| 15 | With 250 on the clock I heave the how-heavy stick to the right and when we have twenty degrees of bank I brace , pull and reverse the roll to watch our nose carve a lazy anti-clockwise circle around the sapphire sky . |
| 16 | A shaped metal guard flips down to form a complete protective circle around the cord , useful around trees |
| 17 | Start by measuring in a rough circle around the dog 's throat and up over the ears , and then add a further 5 cm ( 2 in ) to this figure . |
| 18 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 19 | The two men had become increasingly resentful of the circle around the king , and their rebellion was specifically directed against the ‘ covetous rule and guiding ’ of this group , identified in the rebels ' manifesto as the family of queen Elizabeth Woodville , the earls of Devon and Pembroke , John lord Audley and Sir John Fogge . |
| 20 | He also seems to have developed connections with the circle around the prince . |
| 21 | Before reaching London , Gloucester apparently wrote to the council and to the city 's mayor , explaining that he had taken possession of the prince because the circle around the boy had been inimical to the safety of king and kingdom . |
| 22 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 23 | The earth is trying to move on a straight line through space-time , but the curvature of space-time produced by the mass of the sun causes it to go in a circle around the sun . |
| 24 | Pipe another circle around the edges to make nests . |
| 25 | It 's nothing fancy You just put a wee circle around the answer you want to give to each statement . |
| 26 | In the figure the curvature in the section shown is whilst the orthogonal line in the surface ( a circle around the axis of symmetry ) has curvature . |
| 27 | The two men had become increasingly resentful of the circle around the king , and their rebellion was specifically directed against the ‘ covetous rule and guiding ’ of this group , identified in the rebels ' manifesto as the family of queen Elizabeth Woodville , the earls of Devon and Pembroke , John lord Audley and Sir John Fogge . |
| 28 | He also seems to have developed connections with the circle around the prince . |
| 29 | Before reaching London , Gloucester apparently wrote to the council and to the city 's mayor , explaining that he had taken possession of the prince because the circle around the boy had been inimical to the safety of king and kingdom . |
| 30 | But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction . |