Example sentences of "be [vb pp] around an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safrane has been designed around an extremely rigid and safe bodyshell , featuring a platform in which the engine is installed transversely and which carries front and rear subframes to ease installation of different mechanical units such as suspension arms . |
| 2 | Often employees are moved around an organization with the same consideration that one would have for a table or chair . |
| 3 | The road traffic management system , similar to that used by electricity companies to operate the national supply grid , will be built around an improved version of the CITRAC system currently used on the M8 in Glasgow coupled to the more advanced FEDICS system used around the Firth of Forth . |
| 4 | The purchase has been structured around an immediate £19 million cash payment , with the balance deferred until October 1993 . |
| 5 | A crowd of people of various races , clutching passports and sheaves of official documents , were clustered around an office in the foyer of the Questura . |
| 6 | They have a narrow frontage to the street and are planned around an atrium and peristyle . |
| 7 | Perhaps this is because his problem is not a sociological one ; he is engaged in polemic rather than social theory and his work is built around an apocalyptic vision of the future of capitalism rather than a series of questions about social phenomena . |
| 8 | Externally ‘ Iron Duke ’ is fully authentic , but not internally , for it is built around an Austerity boiler . |
| 9 | It is based around an English boy , P.K. — played by Brendan Deary as an infant , Guy Witcher as a seven-year-old , Simon Fenton at 12 and Stephen Dorff as an 18-year-old . |
| 10 | This impetus was centred around an urban renewal policy that — along with explicitly segregationist policies in federal public housing — cut off minority communities , displaced large sections of these communities and concentrated them between expressways , office complexes , stadiums and civic centers . |