Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strange iridescent metal was almost as highly valued in the lands around the Circle Sea as sapient pearwood , and was about as rare . |
| 2 | It was the home last year of the most famous crop circle complex of them at all — the series of circles interconnected by straight pathways and curious ‘ key ’ -shaped elements as featured in the newspapers around the world . |
| 3 | In the towns around the main prisons , above all Huntsville , a culture of loyalty to TDC and a commitment to integrity and consistency had become established . |
| 4 | A number of factors are conspiring against the South Africans and they profess to be having real problems with the heat and humidity , exacerbated by the fact that Trinidad is experiencing its highest temperatures for a year with bushfires bright in the hills around the Port of Spain area . |
| 5 | Used extensively in local cuisine , the juniper grows wild in the hills around the medieval walled town of Gubbio . |
| 6 | We are helping to introduce better farming , livestock and soil conservation methods in the areas around the National Parks so the people do n't feel a need to clear the forest for more land . |
| 7 | This scan showed a high uptake of radioactive labelled somatostatin in the areas around the eyes and parotid glands , no uptake being seen in the gastric region . |
| 8 | Ceauşescu 's ‘ family ’ included the coterie of long-time sycophants and aides who lived in the villas around the presidential palace in northern Bucharest and who were on call to attend upon the Comrade should he feel the need for advice , flattery or entertainment . |
| 9 | A special concession paid for by the Ministry of Defence allows for Aerogrammes to and from HM Forces based in BFPOs 801 to 825 , BFPO 655 and HM Ships operating in the seas around the Falkland Islands to be sent without pre-payment of postage . |
| 10 | The city provost and his marshals became more organised , clamping down more ruthlessly on the legion of thieves which flourished in the slums around the Rue Saint Antoine . |
| 11 | His surprise attack routed the Chaos forces in the woods around the White Tower . |
| 12 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 13 | In the decades around the turn of the twentieth century , the cultural life of major western cities changed . |
| 14 | It is only with the development of more radical differentiation in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century that it is possible to speak of a fully-fledged and optimally differentiated cultural modernity . |
| 15 | All nerves in the tissues around the superior mesenteric artery were cut , thereby accomplishing denervation of the extrinsic autonomic nervous supply to the intestinal segment . |
| 16 | The submarines ’ main areas of activity were in the waters around the British Isles and in much of the Mediterranean . |
| 17 | Suggestions included removing the subsidence temperature inversion which trapped the smog , using ground-based fans , helicopters or thermal means ; eliminating the sunlight and thus the smog by producing a gigantic parasol of white smoke laid by aircraft high over the city ; removing the smog through tunnels in the mountains around the Los Angeles basin using huge fans ; and seeding the air with some sort of agent that would ‘ neutralize ’ the smog . |
| 18 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 19 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 20 | The cavalcade stopped and orders were issued for us to rest in the fields around the church whilst Queen Margaret and her principal attendants went inside . |
| 21 | Tiki Kyte in the front and Angie Butler at the back are putting in the miles around the country lanes of Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | ln the parks the eucalypti were alive with lorikeets , and flocks of parakeets chased each other around the streets ; while spotted diamond birds clung to the leaves of trees in every enclosure , and yellow-throated honey-eaters crept along branches in the ravines around the town . |
| 23 | And the childsized intruder shifted in the shadows around the stage , mocking him from the darkness . |
| 24 | The game that was being played out in the shadows around the planet Earth was old beyond even its understanding . |
| 25 | Why did British fiction so suddenly revive the conte philosophique in the years around the war 's ending , along with its fierce , diagrammatic crudities of tone and substance ? |