Example sentences of "[noun] that surrounded it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not only was their dustheap to be removed , but much of the slum building that surrounded it . |
| 2 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 3 | A safe , a filing cabinet , a window that was curtained against the dusk of the camp and the reef of arc lights that surrounded it . |
| 4 | Stephen walked about his room , thinking about the house he was in , about the garden and the brick wall that surrounded it , and the white iron gate in the archway , and the setters and the summer-house . |
| 5 | More noticeable still was the faint octarine glow that surrounded it . |
| 6 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Most of his news-making troubles began in 1986 when he and Madonna embarked on a movie that never lived up to all the hype and publicity that surrounded it , Shanghai Surprise . |
| 8 | Since then , under the Communists , Nordhausen remained a metal town , spewing its untreated , black , smelter smoke into the atmosphere and polluting the beautiful countryside that surrounded it . |
| 9 | We know very little of these early years , beyond that it was a family of privilege , untouched by the economic scourge that surrounded it , though Nathan Cohen must frequently have feared it might touch them , too — not least when he was blessed with a much hoped-for son , whom he named Leonard Norman . |
| 10 | In spite of all the grandeur that surrounded it , there was no one to call it creator ; for it had not brought forth creation . |
| 11 | ‘ After all the controversy that surrounded it , we were congratulated for sticking to our guns and doing the production . ’ |
| 12 | Though to some extent exaggerated by the press , the disorder that surrounded it was far greater than anything occasioned by earlier industrial confrontations at locations such as Saltley , Grunwick , and Warrington . |
| 13 | A patch of darkness in a far comer seemed somewhat darker than the less dark darkness that surrounded it . |
| 14 | The house of Baskerville , the eminent Birmingham printer , was sold in 1788 and the seven acres of land that surrounded it were advertised as ‘ a very desirable spot to build upon ’ . |
| 15 | At the centre of Kant 's disc was the Sun , and the planets were assembled from material that surrounded it . |