Example sentences of "[vb pp] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To try and address these problems , the New Business sales team , which has hitherto been organised around operating system environments , is to refocus on the requirements of specific industry sectors . |
| 2 | They become relics , like the dismembered remains of Catholic saints that are boxed up and dispersed around Christendom to provide individual churches with the Church 's authority . |
| 3 | Government officials are working out details of the plan , with the result of an in-depth overview expected around Easter . |
| 4 | Outside India there are 1,600–2,500 tigers ( depending on whose estimate you believe ) , scattered around South-East Asia , China and Russia . |
| 5 | Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event . |
| 6 | The field officer 's sense of autonomy derives from the fact that being allocated to districts on a geographical basis designed around river catchments gives him a personal territorial jurisdiction over which he presides . |
| 7 | SHE : ( fingers twisted around phonecard , phonecard twisted round neck , then suddenly , piercingly ) ‘ You ca n't do this to me ! |
| 8 | A couple of cats hung around number forty-three , but they avoided Simon-who in any case never fed them . |
| 9 | Erm , which is a shame because as kid 's we all hung around street corners and cafe 's and things . |
| 10 | Civilian activists are positioned around army barracks , tracking army units ' movements and reporting to special emergency headquarters . |
| 11 | His recording of the title song became a massive hit and I understand a new sexier image will be revealed around Christmas . |
| 12 | Carpet tiles are marvellously practical because they can be moved around stress areas — under chairs , in front of sofas — and worn ones replaced as necessary . |
| 13 | Both leaders repeatedly stressed their joint vision of a new Africa , built around Nigerian-South African co-operation , which would enhance the influence of the continent in international relations . |
| 14 | However , the report also warns against a big switch to more ‘ worthy ’ youth programmes , and emphasises that the station should remain a mass audience service built around music . |
| 15 | The Unionist recovery was built around Law 's leadership , but what Asquith called the " new style " of obstruction , threats and offensive behaviour did not originate with Law . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's an enormous advertising industry built around shock tactics and high emotions designed to get you to part with cash for various charitable causes . |
| 17 | The shoulder and elbow joints are built around precision variable resistors and as each joint swivels so the variable resistor turns . |
| 18 | No further expansion at the desktop level is planned , but a new series of high-end DRS boxes due next year and built around Pyramid Technology Corp 's R bus technology could use either processor , depending on which is offering the best price-performance at the time , he says . |
| 19 | The graphics subsystem is built around custom chips and plugs into the TurboChannel of the host processor : it 's intended for the Alpha-based Titan 2.0 — a multi-processor graphics workstation — but it will also run on the MIPS-based Titan 1.0 . |
| 20 | Despite extensive evidence from numerous independent sources to the effect that there is little to choose between the performance of a well formulated detergent and the invariably more expensive combined products , known as sanitisers , a whole industry has been built around marketing sanitisation . |
| 21 | Management was not built around care plans and reviews … and there was little involvement at senior level . |
| 22 | Those things are all built around vocal/rhythm arrangements . |
| 23 | This is so whether we have in mind disciplines which are largely cognitive in character , or those — such as in the performing arts — which are built around action . |
| 24 | It appears to favour grouping on city pavements outside office blocks and is most commonly seen around mid-morning or between 12 noon and 2pm . |
| 25 | When I began to be seen around camp with a new face , I was subjected to a lot of nudging and winking from those who did n't know the facts , and people came up to me with knowing smiles on their faces , saying , ‘ I see you 've got a new boyfriend ! |
| 26 | Looking first at the data obtained at 37°C a clear footprint can be seen around site 1 ( positions 32-38 ) in the sequence CGCA , which is still apparent 30 seconds after adding the unlabelled DNA . |
| 27 | These male fantasies reduced working women to a series of purely physical functions organized around sex . |
| 28 | post-industrial society is organized around knowledge , for the purpose of social control and the directing of innovation and change ; and this in turn gives rise to new social relationships and new structures ’ ( 1973 , p. 20 ) . |
| 29 | Unlike the novelistic of cinema or of the twentieth-century novel , the television novelistic is organized around interruption rather than around closure . |
| 30 | ( 1961 ) conducted such interviews at the end of the second year of their research with medical students , using a schedule organized around material gathered from participant observation . |