Example sentences of "be [verb] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Tibetans protest , their cries are heard around the world , as they were this week from the demonstrations in the capital , Lhasa . |
| 2 | In some applications the infra red sources and detectors are placed around the edge of the visual display unit , a cheaper method of providing an interactive screen than embedding touch pads into the glass . |
| 3 | Mirrors are placed around the wiggler to reflect the emitted light back and forth , causing amplification on each pass by stimulated emission . |
| 4 | WATER TANKS AND PIPES Insulating water tanks is the next job and this can be done with special padded material , secured in place by wire , or with special ready-made padded jackets , or , if you have a standard-sized water tank , with special pre-cut packs of sheet insulation that are placed around the tank and secured with tape or wire . |
| 5 | Most relocation policies are developed around the issue of the finances involved in buying and selling property . |
| 6 | But now the old paternalism began to reassert itself , determined that whatever shackles had been placed around the BBC should also tie down the commercial companies . |
| 7 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 8 | The rumour mill claims Unix System Laboratories Inc has been sniffing around the Santa Cruz Operation Inc over the last few months — with takeover in mind . |
| 9 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 10 | Many theoretical investigations of turbulence have been developed around the concept of homogeneous , isotropic turbulence — turbulence of which the statistical properties do not vary with position and have no preferred direction . |
| 11 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 12 | Not on your life — I 've been hanging around the set of Bedroom Farce hoping Chris 'll come back from the bar . |
| 13 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 14 | Their electric sensors , known as ampullae of Lorenzini , are arranged around the head . |
| 15 | Nodules are formed around the larvae mainly in the wall of the caecum and colon when , due to their size , they can travel no further within the arteries and subsequent rupture of these nodules releases the young adult parasites into the lumen of the intestine . |
| 16 | General Bourbollon 's troops are gathering around the capital ; he 's prepared to cross the Rubicon . |
| 17 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
| 18 | The PC and its descendants are designed around the Intel 8088/86/286 family of processors and use a bus system to provide additional facilities such as graphics . |
| 19 | Zack must find his tools which are scattered around the factory . |
| 20 | Something like 4m people who speak Greek , or think of themselves as Greek , are scattered around the world . |
| 21 | The police are scattered around the area with several pairs of squad cars and at least three Black Marias . |
| 22 | In 992 it was the ships of London and East Anglia alone which met the Scandinavians and were defeated , and this implies that the fleet may have been dispersed around the coast . |
| 23 | Second , in courses which are organised around the expectation that most students are young and well qualified in a traditional sense , older students who have entered through different routes may find it more difficult to succeed than in courses where there is more support , both at an institutional level and from other students with similar backgrounds and experiences . |
| 24 | In addition to the passenger cabin , three separate baggage bays are grouped around the fuel tank , providing an extra 35 cubic feet of space . |
| 25 | It is 2130 and the EOD team are grouped around the television set again , cigarette smoke spiralling up to the ceiling . |
| 26 | A direct and obvious example is that many marine animals are dispersed around the globe by ocean currents . |
| 27 | The empty cans can be left at a number of collection points which are located around the site . |
| 28 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 29 | This purpose-built health hydro has been designed around the needs of the guest so your every whim is catered for . |
| 30 | What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that . |