Example sentences of "is around the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An area of defensiveness is around the Labour Party because that 's been one of my main arenas of political activity for the last eight , nine years or so . |
| 2 | And I think the overall figure that we 've had produced , which is around the six point two percent , is still a very substantial level of vacant dwellings within the county . |
| 3 | Firstly , the peak age for conviction is around the school-leaving age and the likelihood of conviction after that age declines ; and , secondly , a very significant proportion of the offences committed by juveniles are very trivial — stealing milk bottles for example . |
| 4 | ’ Summing up , ’ said Nilghard , ‘ I must say that the only place where I have seen correspondingly bad situations in Central Europe before is around the biggest airports in West Germany . ’ |
| 5 | That value is around the Scottish average . |
| 6 | The chain-guilloche too is interlaced more frequently ( and , therefore , is more compact ) around the bottom panel and the two panels which contain wave-crest pattern , than it is around the top panel . |