Example sentences of "[noun sg] around a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building a seat around a tree . |
| 2 | The only time that that does n't apply is if you are thinking in terms of posts in a fence around a square field or round a circular field . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , in Aquitaine , the hoards show a very low level of mixing of coins from various mints , suggesting only local circulation around a single centre , and there is virtually no sign of coins entering the region from the north or north-east . |
| 4 | Some of the parts were more difficult to make than others — the curves of the bonnet , for instance , were achieved by shaping aluminium around a length of pipe — but a few , like the wind-screen , had to be bought at auto jumbles . |
| 5 | ‘ The way I see it , ’ he said , strategically deploying troops and artillery around a wall-to-wall map , ‘ with a little more armour the Germans could be really kicking ass . ’ |
| 6 | What emerged , aside from the technology , which has been widely previewed ( summary inside ) , was a seminal move by USL president Roel Pieper to unify the industry around a desktop Unix to challenge Microsoft Corp NT — threatening to sweep the boards when it finally arrives . |
| 7 | The frog 's forehead bulged as it tried to get its mind around a new idea . |
| 8 | Okay well it will be interesting to see what er what other people have , have said about it because I was sort of fishing around a bit in the dark and looking at the stats manual |
| 9 | One situation is of particular interest : the empty space–time around a spherically symmetric mass distribution . |
| 10 | Then the curvature of geodesic surfaces in space–time around a spherically symmetric mass distribution are calculated or inferred . |
| 11 | In cases for which the system has spherical symmetry , such as space–time around a spherical star or planet , it may often be better to use polar coordinates ; then where . |
| 12 | On his way back with the water , he got lost on detour around a fallen tree , and as he looked for his way through the woods , he heard a voice ask from the underbrush , ‘ Have you anything to drink ? ’ |
| 13 | And here the outlines of an ancient fortifcation around a village can be clearly seen . |
| 14 | For example , in one case a number of Staffordshire businessmen were keen to make a bid for a £75 million contract for the construction of security fencing around a British military base in Germany . |
| 15 | Northumbrian villages , though protected to some extent by castles and garrisons such as those at Carlisle , Naworth , Harbottle and Norham , tended to be built in a sort of miniature bailey around a large square green which could be gated when cattle were brought in for the night . |
| 16 | The Feslegen is built in an L-shape around a central courtyard where breakfast is served and is smoothly run by our friend Mutah . |
| 17 | The rooms form an L-shape around a pleasant lawn and the main house contains the bar , small lounge and restaurant where excellent Creole and Continental cuisine is served . |
| 18 | They look good in bold drifts , and the effect is usually more pleasing if you choose just two or three varieties to plant in groups , rather than dot around a large number of different varieties in a small area . |
| 19 | Examples to show the difference from unnecessary obstruction include leaving a vehicle around a blind bend , or just over a humped-back bridge etc . |
| 20 | The latter might , originally , have been a four-swastika meander around a central band . |
| 21 | " We were asked to design a machine around a chassis from a Taiwanese supplier , " he says . |
| 22 | The sites and forms of these have constantly been changing , so that often what appears as a nucleated village around a green can be shown to be the last , and a relatively late , development in the landscape . |
| 23 | The house , in fact , is older , for the work of the 1870s , though apparently a complete rebuilding , is merely a stone casing around a house originally built by a successful merchant of the Staple , whose inscription is still over the door : ‘ Thinke and Thanke Anno 1570 ’ . |
| 24 | Stretch rashers with the back of a knife until almost half as long again , then halve crossways and wrap each half around a prune . |
| 25 | Some just long for a slow mooch around a department store . |
| 26 | The most notorious confrontation took place around a coking plant at Orgreave , near Sheffield . |
| 27 | Advocaat has shaped his team around a five-man attack aimed at overwhelming San Marino 's part-timers . |
| 28 | Accelerated soil erosion around a Mexican highland lake caused by prehispanic agriculture |
| 29 | At the simplest level , the forest around a village is being gently ‘ harvested ’ — there is a scheme for gathering seeds of shrubs and climbers , for export to the garden-centre pot-plant nurseries of the US , but that is just a start . |
| 30 | If the QPOs in NGC5548 derive from instability or variability in an accretion disc around a black hole , the black hole mass can be only a few hundred thousand solar masses , an uncomfortably small number for most AGN models . |