Example sentences of "is [vb pp] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wheel index — This form of card index is arranged around the circumference of a wheel . |
| 2 | Sometimes moxibustion is used alongside acupuncture : a ball of dried herb is placed around the shaft of the needle . |
| 3 | The tie , of twisted fabric , is placed around the ankles and the parted shroud displays a small cap with ruffling , this last soon to become one of the standard items of grave-clothing . |
| 4 | The shape of the box is determined largely by the shape and size of the printer and the box is placed around the printer so that it can perform its function of reducing the decibel level emanating from the printer . |
| 5 | In D. microlepis , it is , to the best of my knowledge , always complete whereas in D. quadrifasciatus it is broken around the dorsal line with a more pronounced blotch terminating the upper length of the bar , beginning again immediately under the operculum around the pectoral fins . |
| 6 | But the real obstacle to any formal union of the centre and right opposition parties is that each of them is formed around the personality and ambitions of an individual politician who considers himself to be papabile or presidentiable . |
| 7 | At all events , the mediaeval part of the village developed at the junction of the rivers Cerniog and Carno , before the latter reached the Severn , and is grouped around the church and the site of a Roman camp . |
| 8 | A raffle will also be held during the evening , which is organised around a Japanese theme , with the first prize a return trip for two to Nagasaki . |
| 9 | The difficulty with all these forecasts is that the type of skills required depends on decisions made by managers about the way in which work is organised around the technology , and we thus come back to the problem identified with forecasts made about the impact of new technology on society . |
| 10 | An announcement of the first indigenous Alpha systems is expected around the end of the summer , following benchmarks which will be released in August . |
| 11 | The second area is located around the development of information systems involving considerations such as meaningfulness , accuracy and accessibility of data . |
| 12 | The main building at Jordanstown is designed around a central Mall , itself a spine for the 17 blocks of academic and recreational facilities and accommodation . |
| 13 | The main building at Jordanstown is designed around a central Mall , itself a spine for the 17 blocks of academic and recreational facilities and accommodation . |
| 14 | In the interest of low power consumption the device is designed around a CMOS integrated circuit type 4093 which is a versatile package containing four two-input NAND gates with Schmitt triggers on their inputs . |
| 15 | Well the as you 'll have noticed the course is designed around a series of talks but they are by no means lectures . |
| 16 | THE planning system is designed around the idea that people should have a say in what happens to their immediate surroundings . |
| 17 | In this structure the organisation is designed around the different functions required to make and sell its product or service . |
| 18 | The plant is built around a modular system which means the reaction vessels can be used for various purposes and new parts can be added when required . |
| 19 | It is built around a piece of land that juts out into the Atlantic , with beaches on the north side of the slender neck and the harbour on the south side . |
| 20 | The high-speed monochrome GlobalXM is built around a 25MHz R3000A chip and has a performance of 130,000 Xstones and price of $4,016 for a 17″ monitor with 4Mb memory ; GlobalXG is a similar model with 256 shade grey-scale functionality and 80,000 Xstone performance at from $5,475 ) ; GlobalXP is built around the 40MHz R3000A and offers 256 colours and 130,000 Xstone performance at $8,048 , while Global PEX is a similar colour model with floating point accelerator to support PEX , and GlobalXC is the lower 25MHz clock speed with colour and 80,000 Xstones performance , priced from $6,040 . |
| 21 | Developed in C++ with a client-server architecture , it is built around a Dynamic Application Dictionary and the ProActive Toolset , which enables users to customise applications without changing source code . |
| 22 | The palazzo is built around a courtyard with a truncated tower at its base . |
| 23 | The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost . |
| 24 | The hotel is built around a nineteenth-century palace , with covered walkways to the modern bedroom wings . |
| 25 | It is built around a large number of lists of attainments , some of which subdivide attainment targets in English , Mathematics and Science . |
| 26 | Longacre ( 1979 ) claims that ‘ in narrative discourse , a narrative paragraph is built around a thematic participant , occasionally a small set of thematic participants ’ ( Longacre , 1979 : 118 ) . |
| 27 | We saw in Chapter 4 that the academic community is built around a structured conversation , with its members adhering to certain norms : they are truth seeking ; they are sincere in their utterances ; they offer understandable propositions ; and they adopt appropriate forms of communication . |
| 28 | The programme is built around a series of day cruises , building up to some long and ambitious trips exploring the islands in Wayfarer dinghies , so every morning starts with a briefing . |
| 29 | Every IBM PC compatible computer is built around a Processing Chip ( processor ) , and this chip is nominally a member of the Intel x86 family . |
| 30 | The DCS200 is built around a Nikon 801 35mm professional camera , which means that conventional Nikon lenses can be used . |