Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very important to have the greatest possible support around the expansion slot area . |
| 2 | There was never any extensive woodland around the site , only scattered birch , willow , hazel , and rowan scrub . |
| 3 | The economic recession around the world was not generally helpful to precious metal prices . |
| 4 | We 've got a rota system and that started at four this morning and is now full for the rest of the day , so there will be a strong presence around the building all day long . |
| 5 | He walked around the 2500 miles of Irish coast in record time before returning to England in March to begin his clockwise trek around the coast . |
| 6 | Technical advancement around the Group currently involves four major installations , either in the early stages of operation or undergoing test runs . |
| 7 | Ferguson now sports a tuft of facial hair around his lips and chin , permitted him by the Tannadice tablets of stone , but it will take more than a beard to signify maturity . |
| 8 | A private party , ’ he gave a swift and completely Eastern European look around the room and , almost imperceptibly , lowered his voice ; ‘ with some Friends . ’ |
| 9 | This would not only save money and help to curb the growth of the world 's stocks of separated plutonium ; it might also help to persuade Russia to dispose of its plutonium , rather than weaving an economic pipedream around it . |
| 10 | Cut off a narrow strip around the edge and use to line the dampened rim of the pie plate . |
| 11 | the right expertise around him . |
| 12 | And if we look at the planets of our solar system , lo and behold , every single one of them is travelling at exactly the right velocity to keep it in its stable orbit around the Sun . |
| 13 | Once again Royal show fashions ranged between formal-summer-outfit-with-hat to skimpy suntop and shorts , but the lady who turned the most heads at the show was probably international visitor Isha Kamara as she made her stately progress around the show bearing her bag upon her head . |
| 14 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 15 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 16 | Modern historians are quite uncertain whether an individual of that name existed here and carried out the exploits attributed to him ; or whether he is a representative figure around whom have accreted the age-old memories of a people 's struggles to maintain inherited liberties in the face of alien subjection . |
| 17 | At least 36 people died in black political violence around the country . |
| 18 | Anchovies — an important source of protein for animal feed — also mysteriously disappeared from the Peruvian coast around this time . |
| 19 | The Tertiary basalts dominate the scenery of Antrim , with the Ulster White Limestone forming a narrow outcrop around them ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 20 | At the height of the Teddy boy era the local cinema foolishly premiered Rock Around the Clock on bonfire Night . |
| 21 | In mid-December the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE , or the Tamil Tigers — the main Tamil insurgent group ) had routed the pro-IPKF Tamil National Army ( TNA ) in bloody fighting around the eastern port of Batticaloa [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 22 | Although the station was non-operational for a few years following the disaster it was fully operational again by April 1979 and since 1985 has had a modern Tyne class lifeboat on station to cover the wide stretch of north-east facing coast around the port . |
| 23 | The skills of the authorities in responding to stockmarket crashes , the spread of economic weight around the globe , the fact that the economic cycles of Japan and Germany seem unsynchronised with those of America and Britain , the role of taxes and public spending as automatic stabilisers in modern economies — all these are most reassuring . |
| 24 | In the catalogue John House quoted Monet 's description of the painted light around the snowy haystacks as an enveloping veil . |
| 25 | Her hair was newly brushed and hanging loose around her shoulders . |
| 26 | I share her desire to ensure that the channel tunnel becomes a tool for economic regeneration around the country . |
| 27 | A petite , curvaceous figure , clad in clinging geranium-red , dark hair flying like a glossy cloak around her shoulders . |
| 28 | First , in the earlier period there were wide margins of discretion within an extremely informal mode of policing — the proverbial clip around the ear , or the dreaded flick of the Edwardian policemen 's rolled cape — which has been replaced by the more likely possibility of prosecution , or the issue of formal caution . |
| 29 | It is a devious route around the coastal fringes , no direct way across the intervening wilderness of mountains being possible except on foot by strong walkers . |
| 30 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |