Example sentences of "[noun] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll give you a ring around lunch-time . ’ |
| 2 | It is contexts that fascinate Morrison : the context that history places around the present , the community around the individual , blackness around whiteness ( or vice versa ) . |
| 3 | He also came by with old radios and plates , jugs and silver candlesticks , anything he picked up on his roaming trips around South London while he waited for Eva to continue work on the new flat . |
| 4 | Just like the animals around baby Jesus ! |
| 5 | This refers to an increase in the numbers of nematode eggs in the faeces of animals around parturition . |
| 6 | As these retirements were taking effect around Easter , I felt it better to wait until after the Easter celebrations before making any appointments . |
| 7 | While Castells ' early work has usually been criticized for the absence of agency and consequent essentially functionalist explanation , this absence of connection between base and consciousness — an implicit dismissal of the notion that social being determines consciousness — is also a licence for action explanations in a Weberian tradition which completely sever the connection between the production system and social action around reproduction . |
| 8 | Some months before the 1983 council elections the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights group in Nottingham initiated a debate among the lesbian and gay groups in the city , resulting in the publication of a charter , ‘ A Fair Deal For Gays ’ , which included proposals for council action around employment practices , housing , leisure services , etc . |
| 9 | It was decided to stop the car around junction 16 to minimise the danger to the public and prevent any escapes . |
| 10 | ‘ Also , plaque around gum margins can lead to gum diseases such as gingivitis . |
| 11 | Faraday began talking of magnetic fields ( and you 'll remember the school experiments with iron filings around bar magnets ) . |
| 12 | Speaking at a rally on " Shaka Day " ( celebrating a Zulu hero ) , and brandishing a number of " traditional " weapons , Buthelezi declared that any attempt by the government to disarm Inkatha would be defied and that fencing around migrant worker hostels , largely Inkatha strongholds , would be destroyed . |
| 13 | Yet in the back of his mind this young man harbours a trunk full of doubts and confusion around sex . |
| 14 | ‘ I first heard about the murder around midnight , I suppose , ’ Blufton began with a sigh . |
| 15 | Considering the disproportionate number of black kids who feed their ambitions into sport and zealously cultivate goals around sport achievements , the high number reaching standards of excellence is not so surprising . |
| 16 | This may be an effect of the uncertainty around television 's textuality ; but it is now an extremely limiting effect for the development of theory . |
| 17 | Fighting during deployment of army forces around Sidon — Subsequent deployment around Tyre |
| 18 | Such men of enterprise and initiative as Lord Stevens and the publisher Lord Weidenfeld stood in huddles around television sets . |
| 19 | The ride is a very pleasant one of about twenty miles through rural scenery and past well-maintained stations , with all the right traditional railway sounds such as ‘ chuff chuff chuff chuff ’ , which has disappeared from British Rail , and my favourite , ‘ clackety clack ’ , which is much reduced on BR due to the use of continuous welded rail on all busy lines , though the older sectioned rail survives on the lines around South Shropshire such as the Central Wales Line and the Cambrian . |
| 20 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 21 | For those who 've taken the decision to turn their lives around prevention is n't always better than cure . |
| 22 | He never forgot Dentdale and credits much of his earlier love of learning and his interest in rocks and their formation to the days he spent as a boy rambling the fells around Dent . |
| 23 | Roofs should be repaired as soon as they show signs of trouble — check for slipped slates and tiles , failed flashings around chimney stacks and damage to the chimney stack itself . |
| 24 | It 's our work around heterosexism which makes a direct and daily challenge to them , and in a sense this work is a pure act of coming out in that it no longer allows them to treat us as one of the girls ( or boys ) who is really just like them . |
| 25 | Will my right hon. Friend consider further the approach that I have made to the Secretary of State that vacant married quarters in civilian areas around army camps should be co-ordinated into my right hon. Friend 's scheme ? |
| 26 | The aim of the scheme is to improve areas around building sites , making them cleaner and easier to negotiate , to encourage contractors working in the borough to use more environmentally-friendly materials and to be more energy efficient . |
| 27 | There can be no exclusion zone around belief , whether it is put there by believers claiming special enlightenment or philosophers drawing the bounds to sense . |
| 28 | Onward travel is via Belgium and Germany to arrive in Zakopane around lunch time the following day . |
| 29 | DALIAN ATKINSON does n't want to hear any championship chat around Villa Park just yet ! |
| 30 | We could not show a significant difference between the extent of gastric metaplasia at sites around ulcer craters or scars and macroscopically normal appearing mucosa . |