Example sentences of "[vb pp] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dense network of seismograph stations installed around the epicentre detected only six small aftershocks all within six weeks of the main shock . |
| 2 | It operates by exchanging infra-red signals with a network of sensors installed around the building , which are in turn connected to an Ethernet . |
| 3 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA 's ITMI artificial intelligence systems company has teamed up with vision systems specialist Cognex Corp to offer a joint package to customers : Cognex has nearly 12,000 vision systems installed around the world and a wide library of software tools ; ITMI has installed around 150 systems for big European manufacturers . |
| 4 | It works on a mental level as well as a physical one and you can off-load all the stress and tension you 've carried around the course . |
| 5 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 6 | In the work of Cézanne , where the outlines of objects are stressed again and again , and then as often broken , the eye , while conscious of the limitations of normal vision , has the sensation of being carried around the object beyond its boundaries . |
| 7 | It was like seeing the lock for which he had carried around the key , year after ignorant year . |
| 8 | Environmental officials believe that some 3 billion used tyres are currently stockpiled around the USA . |
| 9 | Two days of pitched battles between Croatian forces and Serbian militiamen backed by Yugoslav troops and jets left many dead and wounded around the south-western Bosnian town of Kupres , Radio Sarajevo reported . |
| 10 | The other is a political ethos which has structured the vocabulary with which economic distress can be addressed around the archetypal notion of regeneration . |
| 11 | There was , however , a technical difficulty in the path of litigants : because princes ' courts were peripatetic , they had to be pursued around the countryside , as Geoffrey le Preuil pursued Fulk le Réchin in 1093 ; and this fact offered a convenient excuse for those summoned by their lords as defendants in a case . |
| 12 | The method used to spin both types was the same , a short whip of string or leather about eighteen inches in length was wound around the top which was then placed upright on the ground and steadied with one finger . |
| 13 | These relatively thin walls are largely composed of cellulose , in the form of fibrillae , and Professor Preston , of Leeds , finds that these thin threads are disposed in the form of a very steep spiral or helix , wound around the long axes of the cells ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 14 | An image flew into her head of Dorothy as some Wagnerian virago ; it was not entirely inappropriate — there had been a whiff of the Valkyrie about her mother , with her alternating hairstyles of frayed bun or plait wound around the head and tendency to long brown shapeless garments . |
| 15 | The procession wound around the whole tournament area , knights and men-at-arms acknowledging the cheers and cries of the crowd . |
| 16 | A length of wire wound around the rudder ? |
| 17 | We used copper electrodes wound around the probe in 0.5 mm wide grooves to ensure a smooth surface . |
| 18 | The seemingly positive advances on the economic front re-emphasised the fact that the Treaty of Rome had skirted around the question of political cooperation . |
| 19 | Rings of mist were forming as the temperature dropped around the peaks . |
| 20 | They were dropped around the Rio Jara base , where two Panamanian companies were ‘ neutralised ’ by a parachute battalion of 600 US Rangers . |
| 21 | On these , a huge hanging bowl was placed , made of beaten copper decorated around the rim with birds pecking at ornamental roundels , dogs ' heads , and a variety of animals , all lifelike in careful , exquisite craftsmanship . |
| 22 | It is 2130 and the EOD team are grouped around the television set again , cigarette smoke spiralling up to the ceiling . |
| 23 | Grouped around the bottom of the atrium are a common room giving access to a riverside terrace , a laundry and the caretaker 's office and flat ( Fig 57 ) . |
| 24 | The Post Office is only one of several fine Georgian buildings grouped around the square , dominated , at the southern end by the stone and slate Victorian Town Hall . |
| 25 | There are no outstanding houses but the lines of brick houses grouped around the central green and round smaller greens in other parts of the village form a pleasing composition . |
| 26 | The Städel 's Graphische Sammlung has contributed a special display grouped around the ‘ The Glove ’ , the series of ten etchings ( 1881 ) which made Klinger famous and which influenced Max Ernst and other surrealists . |
| 27 | In addition to the passenger cabin , three separate baggage bays are grouped around the fuel tank , providing an extra 35 cubic feet of space . |
| 28 | Grouped around the eggs are many stamens producing pollen . |
| 29 | I want to turn now to the forces which have grouped around the antiracist project and to the question of class . |
| 30 | Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric . |