Example sentences of "[coord] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most books are ordered on or around publication date , and here a variety of different tools can be used as a base source . |
| 2 | In Britain the ‘ Beltane ’ fires , supposedly named in honour of the sun god Baal , were recorded in the Celtic fringe of Scotland and Wales and were lit earlier , on or around Walpurgis Night , or on May Day . |
| 3 | You can choose the day of the month you want this to happen to suit your budgeting — we suggest you make it on or around pay day . |
| 4 | Railings survive where a hazard would have been created by their removal — for example , beside steps or around basement areas — but Victorian houses , which often had front gardens , suffered badly . |
| 5 | Choose long-lasting and highly water resistant products if they like to play in or around water . |
| 6 | John Strype , the eighteenth-century antiquarian , gives an account of the care given to the corpse of Henry VIII immediately after his death at Westminster on or around midnight on 28 January 1547 . |
| 7 | There is a category of exempted minor works such as the erection of fences or walls on or around property , provided they do not exceed two metres generally or one metre adjoining a highway . |
| 8 | Maturation of these arrested larvae seems to be linked with the breeding cycle of the host and occurs at or around parturition . |
| 9 | Instead , girls who marry or begin sexual congress before or around puberty tend to experience a longer interval between marriage or conjugal union and first birth than do their counterparts who marry later . |
| 10 | Vehicle barriers , as requested by ELDC , were erected around the car park area where the main compound is sited and around part of the reinstated area of MH28 — Summit MH . |
| 11 | You may remember , Mr. Speaker , that last year I raised with you the problem of coaches parked in and around Parliament square , which makes it impossible for the Sessional Order to be complied with . |
| 12 | Wash the surface thoroughly with sugar soap , paying particular attention to edges and around door handles . |
| 13 | The fundamental model is the physical sciences , but in the current transactions and debates in and around English , social studies offers a closer and more approachable example . |
| 14 | Try and feed the fish first thing in the morning and around midday , not in the evening . |
| 15 | There had been a lot of activity in and around Brigade H.Q It appears that the enemy in front of the Commando positions has started to pull out , possibly due to the Allied advance in the Caen area about ten miles from here . |
| 16 | Patio roses occupy a small niche between the true miniatures and the ubiquitous bush size , and are therefore eminently suitable for planting in and around patio paving , pots and containers . |
| 17 | Occasions for such testing occur , for example , during police v. football fan conflicts in and around soccer grounds , in the editorial comments of the media , on the streets and in the classrooms where , whatever teachers may intend , their actions are interpreted as contempt . |
| 18 | From the opening session of elaborate boxing and coxing by agents and briefcases in , out and around swimming pool changing cubicles with almost balletic precision , the pace hardly drops . |
| 19 | Coach Mike McClennan admitted : ‘ With all the tough games to come before and around Christmas , it 's a real setback . |
| 20 | At least six groups are operating in and around south-east London alone . |
| 21 | • Continue to clear leaves , especially from the lawn , where they encourage grass diseases , and around rose bushes , where black spot may overwinter . |
| 22 | Ideally the pressure groups formed are not to be organized functionally around ‘ clienthood ’ or ‘ patienthood ’ but around identification of interests which consumers in general feel to be appropriate . |