Example sentences of "[vb -s] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONNER REORGANISES AROUND MARKET GROUPS |
| 2 | ooh aah Cantana … that 's the chant that rings around football grounds at the moment … in honour of course of the French striker Eric Cantona … |
| 3 | For most 18–30 's the day in Malia starts around lunchtime with English breakfast at one of the cafés on the road down to the beach . |
| 4 | Spill says SCO will make an announcement regarding its Intel plans around mid-year , its new-found enthusiasm is a turnaround from last year when it was bullish about its MIPS Open Desktop effort , but seemed ready to leave the Intel ACE version to tread water , saying it would n't be around until 1993 ( UX No 364 ) . |
| 5 | Fairly recently Marsh has shown that glass which is quite free from cracks does in fact fail in this manner by flowing , and that when this happens around room temperature , the stresses are usually upwards of 500,000 p.s.i . |
| 6 | In the years when this inexplicable phenomenon occurs — and it usually happens around Christmas , and so is known by the local fishermen as El Niño — the plankton suddenly vanish , the fish die and the birds fly away or are left to starve and rot . |
| 7 | Copulation occurs around day seven in the trachea or bronchi after which the female grows rapidly . |
| 8 | The tension between the buyer and the seller in this area occurs around retention of title clauses . |
| 9 | One of the most conspicuous aspects of Branch Banking to-day is the major problem which exists around Staffing Levels , Relief Staff and Key Posts . |
| 10 | I never really consciously set out to do war photography ; I set out to do political photography , international politics and a lot of that revolves around conflict . |
| 11 | His life revolves around computer games : he only ventures out of his room in the Tokyo suburb of Kawagoe to acquire more gameboards , the green , maze-like ‘ minds ’ of arcade games . |
| 12 | Because much of the Scottish game revolves around ball won at the touchlines , extra attention will have to be paid to this facet of play . |
| 13 | Likewise , part of the argument also revolves around possibility that in additional land within the inner greenbelt boundary , and again you 've heard our argument on that this morning , and I do n't propose to repeat that . |
| 14 | From the foregoing , you will see that my experience , and hence the bulk of this talk , revolves around engineering applications although for the last 9 months of my time in post I also was responsible for supply aspects of AI and I will cover this briefly . |
| 15 | You see , for me the world revolves around food . |
| 16 | We 're getting more and more aware of how it all revolves around cash . ’ |
| 17 | In their metaphorical indiscipline they had gained ‘ new status ’ and slipped across a boundary into marginality , for as Foucault ( 1977 : 25 ) has suggested , the idea of discipline revolves around control of the physical body and ‘ proceeds from the distribution of individuals in space … it is always the body that is at issue — the body and its forces , their utility and their docility , their distribution and their punishment ’ . |
| 18 | Credit marketing revolves around pre-screening to enable the lender to make a pre-approved credit offer , eg mailing the offer of a $5000 Visa card limit to vetted names . |
| 19 | Another area of concern revolves around job prospects . |
| 20 | The household timetable revolves around restaurant work , with children often being late for school , and visitors being least welcome ( and this is a very hospitable culture ) early in the morning . |
| 21 | Evesham best swims around bridge for chub to waggler and maggot . |
| 22 | Feel my violence , feel my spite , kick my own spine and spit at the others like that loony lady who walks around town looking smart and knocking people 's hats off . |
| 23 | Rho Cassiopeiæ , in the same constellation , fluctuates around magnitude 5 , but very occasionally drops to below 6 . |
| 24 | I do n't understand why a smart girl like you goes around booby-trapping herself . |
| 25 | For cutting down grass and weeds around tree trunks , buildings and other odd places as well as trimming overgrown lawn edged . |