Example sentences of "[noun] [that] surrounds [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gay sex does n't deserve the obsession that surrounds it . |
| 2 | ‘ I have never enjoyed the business totally — I hate the artificiality that surrounds it . ’ |
| 3 | Without disentangling the threads of the web that surrounds us , any attempt to describe how things might be otherwise will fall . |
| 4 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 5 | The combustion zone heats the unreacted feedstock that surrounds it . |
| 6 | Her substantial and brilliant book A Rhetoric of the Unreal uses the work of French intellectual stars in a familiar and matter-of-fact way , without any of the bedazzlement that surrounds them on this side of the Channel . |
| 7 | Main picture Timothy and Christine Easton 's Suffolk farmhouse reflected in the moat that surrounds it Inset , previous page Timothy Easton , painter and sculptor Far left The shape of the internal porch in the parlour shows that the room was once panelled . |
| 8 | Gatsby seems alive like the glittering social circle that surrounds him , whereas Clegg is , emotionally , as dead as his butterfly collection . |
| 9 | People actually do n't see the real poverty that surrounds them . |
| 10 | MURDER , love affairs , violence , robberies , mounting debts … our soap operas are packed full of every gloomy scenario that surrounds us in the real world . |
| 11 | This ‘ Gish ’ out-take is no earth-shattering pop classic , just a steely example of sweaty-fingered , control-freak intelligent-metal , and it still sounds eight to ten times superior to the Brit stuff that surrounds it in this week 's pile of singles . |
| 12 | Surely the time has arrived for the British Royal Family to put a proper end to the speculation that surrounds it by telling the truth . |
| 13 | This arrangement represented ‘ the same top-down white patriarchal model of leadership that surrounds us in our daily life in capitalist society and most left-wing organizations in this country . |
| 14 | Flattered for a little while , they soon begin to feel embarrassed or threatened by the powerful nature of the feeling that surrounds them . |
| 15 | No matter how well experience goes , it is only able to confirm a non-observation sentence in the light of the theory that surrounds it ; alter the theory , and the non-observation sentence might not be confirmed by experience at all . |
| 16 | Is it not unlikely , incredible , that this gold coin , dwarfed by the space that surrounds it , can be the power-house for all life ? |
| 17 | If you can hold your feelings and examine them , force yourself to hear the voice and ask why it produces the response that it does , you are beginning to get the better of it , to break the fearful silence that surrounds it and , incidentally , to add another voice to your writing repertoire . |
| 18 | If we can laugh out loud about getting old , break the silence that surrounds it instead of suffering quietly , then we are beginning to escape from a fear society wants us to have — so we will buy uplift bras , expensive face creams and continue to fear and envy younger women . |
| 19 | It 's also about organisations and the people within them — not just the patient who dies , but the doctors , nurses , auxiliaries , planners , administrators , clerks , and porters , and the noisy , chaotic interaction between them and the structure that surrounds them . |
| 20 | We may all experience the compelling and sometimes painful quality of moonlight , or sense the darkness that surrounds us as a palpable presence . |
| 21 | And yet , the technology really does have much to offer the professional graphic artist , compositor or printer if he or she can afford the time to sweep aside some of the hype that surrounds it . |
| 22 | It is therefore an immensely energetic , hopeful verb — and because our states of mind are influenced , without our conscious knowledge , by the language that surrounds us , this energy and hope is ‘ fed ’ to us through the verb . |
| 23 | He remains quiet within himself , but he is difficult to overcome , because of the circular energy that surrounds him . |