Example sentences of "surround by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tasks to be done are more complex , and surrounded by a higher degree of uncertainty , then co-ordination may be done more efficiently through instructions and information passed down the managerial hierarchy . |
| 2 | A green light , like the go light in the painting , may be surrounded by a blue halo . |
| 3 | A green light , like the go light in the painting , may be surrounded by a blue halo . |
| 4 | The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island , surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings . |
| 5 | Being surrounded by a supportive network of friends has always given the Happy Mondays the edge in the bullshit world of the music industry . |
| 6 | We drew up outside a building which was surrounded by a walled courtyard . |
| 7 | This structure and shaft was surrounded by a walled enclosure approximately 41m ( 134ft ) square ; the wall was 1.7m ( 5½ ft ) thick . |
| 8 | A number of Romanesque structures were built in Cracow on Wawel Hill , where a royal castle and church were erected , surrounded by a walled , fortified town . |
| 9 | The chief clerk was working there , surrounded by a veritable sea of paper ; memoranda , notes , bills , letters and indentures . |
| 10 | While nestling behind your drink in the upstairs bar you are surrounded by a veritable rainforest of shrubs and plants — with a great view of Belfast Lough . |
| 11 | They consist simply of a core of DNA , surrounded by a protective coat of protein . |
| 12 | The other , farther up the hill past the waterfall and surrounded by a protective fence , is a beautiful timber church covered in shingles and with turned balustrading and three onion domes . |
| 13 | She woke up on cobblestones , surrounded by a rich fog . |
| 14 | Screeching an alarm call , they attract more and more small birds to the scene until the bird of prey is surrounded by a noisy , angry mob . |
| 15 | Brassicas , for example , can then be netted against pigeons , or carrots surrounded by a low fence of plastic sheeting to repel root fly . |
| 16 | Someone , again not recently , had sheared the hay from the grave , which was surrounded by a low and crumbling stone rim , thrust apart by couch grass and thorny trails of bramble . |
| 17 | The enclosed area for the contests was a rectangle 650 feet by 250 feet , surrounded by a low wooden palisade ; a wooden barrier , 5½ feet high and 300 feet long was erected down the middle for jousting ; and the ring posts for lance targets were at each end . |
| 18 | On the east side was a small playground , surrounded by a low brick wall . |
| 19 | On one side it was surrounded by a strong wall , on the other it was washed by a fish pond the size of lake , well stocked with all kinds of fish and game birds , to feast both the eye and the palate . |
| 20 | Note also the oval aperture surrounded by a narrow rim . |
| 21 | It was surrounded by a narrow area of brown pigmentation . |
| 22 | The school itself is described as ‘ on a healthy eminence surrounded by a small court and garden . |
| 23 | That , roughly speaking , amounted to a community of scholars surrounded by a small number of dedicated , respectful and conscientious students eager to catch pearls of wisdom from their professor 's lips . |
| 24 | Surrounded by a small mountain of ‘ green ’ diapers — made with non-chlorine bleached paper and photo-sensitive plastic — Isaacs told viewers , ‘ If you must use disposable diapers , then use this one ’ . |
| 25 | Michael Heseltine was surrounded by a small crowd of Tory ladies , the boldest of whom kept fingering the lapels of his suit . |
| 26 | The car had been surrounded by a small crowd of technically minded Romanians . |
| 27 | Plant cells are also surrounded by a thicker , more rigid structure — a CELL WALL . |
| 28 | The whole playground was surrounded by a four foot high brick wall with buttresses at about every ten feet . |
| 29 | But that is what it has become in many churches where it is surrounded by a po-faced atmosphere akin to a dentist 's waiting room . |
| 30 | The animals need more energy to propel themselves if the water around them is turbulent rather than laminar and Blake predicts that dolphins are able to reach crossover speeds even if surrounded by a turbulent layer of water . |