Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | As these retirements were taking effect around Easter , I felt it better to wait until after the Easter celebrations before making any appointments . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was decided to stop the car around junction 16 to minimise the danger to the public and prevent any escapes . |
| 7 | ‘ Also , plaque around gum margins can lead to gum diseases such as gingivitis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet in the back of his mind this young man harbours a trunk full of doubts and confusion around sex . |
| 10 | ‘ I first heard about the murder around midnight , I suppose , ’ Blufton began with a sigh . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fighting during deployment of army forces around Sidon — Subsequent deployment around Tyre |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | DALIAN ATKINSON does n't want to hear any championship chat around Villa Park just yet ! |
| 16 | But , although massage alone wo n't work such miracles , in conjunction with a low-fat diet and plenty of exercise , it certainly helps in the battle of the bulge around problem areas such as your hips , thighs and bottom . |
| 17 | He said Tania , 28 , was in ‘ a very distressed state ’ when she left the matrimonial home around midnight . |
| 18 | It was the Metro 's practicality around town that first attracted him . |
| 19 | Fold down one wire half to lie against the stem , wind the other half around stem and wire . |
| 20 | Mr Laurie Mulrine , Darlington 's head of development control , said the car parking congestion around County Durham 's principal hospital had made some roads a deathtrap for pedestrians . |
| 21 | So he had adopted the feeble expedient of ringing the Frome household around teatime , and asking to speak to Pickerage . |
| 22 | Much care and restraint necessary from both partners to ensure intercourse does not take place around ovulation . |
| 23 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 24 | But as Collard ( 1985 ) points out , this would create a threshold trap around point . |
| 25 | There is a strong theme around autonomy and identity , the struggle between being a person knowing who one is , and then being put in a dependent role through some process of infirmity . |
| 26 | As she sat on a pavement around lunchtime , she was approached by a boy , who it was claimed tried to demonstrate to her how an aerosol can be used as a flame-thrower . |
| 27 | You 've got ta do thirty-six on one floor , thirty-six on another floor , and the next thing that you got is all the information together where all you 've got to do is put that , lots of those together and it 's er , it 's er a shuffling around procedure , is n't it ? |
| 28 | Hybridisation of SstI digested DNA with the 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C ( figure 1 , right ) further resolved the strongest hypersensitive site ( HS5 ) into two subsites , HS5A and HS5B , which are 100bp apart and are situated in the first intron around position +3600bp ( relative to the cap site ) . |
| 29 | Indirect evidence of vadose diagenesis in carbonates comes from ‘ fitted textures ’ ( Fig. 5.16e ) , where expansion and or dissolution around grain margins has occurred beneath a soil zone . |
| 30 | Redness around mouth or anus , or on cheeks |