Example sentences of "[noun pl] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also came by with old radios and plates , jugs and silver candlesticks , anything he picked up on his roaming trips around South London while he waited for Eva to continue work on the new flat . |
| 2 | Just like the animals around baby Jesus ! |
| 3 | This refers to an increase in the numbers of nematode eggs in the faeces of animals around parturition . |
| 4 | Faraday began talking of magnetic fields ( and you 'll remember the school experiments with iron filings around bar magnets ) . |
| 5 | Considering the disproportionate number of black kids who feed their ambitions into sport and zealously cultivate goals around sport achievements , the high number reaching standards of excellence is not so surprising . |
| 6 | Such men of enterprise and initiative as Lord Stevens and the publisher Lord Weidenfeld stood in huddles around television sets . |
| 7 | The ride is a very pleasant one of about twenty miles through rural scenery and past well-maintained stations , with all the right traditional railway sounds such as ‘ chuff chuff chuff chuff ’ , which has disappeared from British Rail , and my favourite , ‘ clackety clack ’ , which is much reduced on BR due to the use of continuous welded rail on all busy lines , though the older sectioned rail survives on the lines around South Shropshire such as the Central Wales Line and the Cambrian . |
| 8 | Institutionalised racism manifests itself in insensitive service provision in health and social services , with barriers around language , the pattern of family names and vocabulary . |
| 9 | For those who 've taken the decision to turn their lives around prevention is n't always better than cure . |
| 10 | He never forgot Dentdale and credits much of his earlier love of learning and his interest in rocks and their formation to the days he spent as a boy rambling the fells around Dent . |
| 11 | Roofs should be repaired as soon as they show signs of trouble — check for slipped slates and tiles , failed flashings around chimney stacks and damage to the chimney stack itself . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend consider further the approach that I have made to the Secretary of State that vacant married quarters in civilian areas around army camps should be co-ordinated into my right hon. Friend 's scheme ? |
| 13 | The aim of the scheme is to improve areas around building sites , making them cleaner and easier to negotiate , to encourage contractors working in the borough to use more environmentally-friendly materials and to be more energy efficient . |
| 14 | We could not show a significant difference between the extent of gastric metaplasia at sites around ulcer craters or scars and macroscopically normal appearing mucosa . |
| 15 | David Mairowitz 's Censorship column covered the controversies around obscenity cases like Last exit to Brooklyn but also struck attitudes which others saw , even in those days , more suspiciously . |
| 16 | Use 750g/1¼lb of the marzipan to cover larger cake : first fill any gaps around base then , using about two-thirds of the remainder , roll out a strip to cover side of cake completely . |
| 17 | Check the gaps around window and door frames ( C ) and that drip grooves on sills ( A ) are not blocked with paint . |
| 18 | Porous plasterboard ceiling and gaps around loft hatch allow warm moist air into cold roof space |
| 19 | Taken in conjunction with Apple 's move to offer Mac Application Services software on the PowerPC RISC and IBM RS/6000s , plus the Cat-in-the-Hat software for putting Mac up on other RISCs — which the firm is now trying to figure out how to introduce — it seems like Apple is getting ready to spread its crown jewels around hardware architectures . |
| 20 | Olive baboons in Gabon defaecate in their home areas , thereby concentrating edible-fruited species , and the Liebermans speculate that the early hominids did the same because there is evidence that there were proto-gardens around occupation sites and that animals were unaware how edible plants came to be there ; a phenomenon known as the ‘ Eden Syndrome ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town . |
| 22 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 23 | With unsubstantiated and irresponsible rumours that AIDS comes from Africa , it is important to work with black organisations around prevention ’ , Boyce says . |
| 24 | Power fluidics is a revolutionary technology which uses simple hydrodynamic configurations , such as the vortex , to control the flow of liquids and gases around process and chemical plant . |
| 25 | Cut back any plants around pond edges that are dying back , and compost them before they pollute the water . |
| 26 | Highlights elsewhere include Bad Brains ( with new singer ) opening up for dc Basehead and Consolidated at the Marquee , plus a menagerie of talents such as Spectrum , The Lunachicks , Pooh Sticks , Ween , Seaweed and The Belltower doing their various weird things around town . |
| 27 | This evidence fits statements from Dennis Johnson , who had arranged to meet the suspected bombers around midday at 17 Campbell Road to hand over the keys to the holiday home . |
| 28 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 29 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
| 30 | Hers may be the problems of a lost or disgraced lover , of fears around childbirth or abortion , of whether or not her family will stand by her in the end , perhaps of a situation in which she has queered her own pitch for continuing fun , and above all , possibly , of the way she is seen by the others concerned . |