Example sentences of "around [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there 's muck , there 's brass , as the saying goes — and there was plenty of brass around during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England for those with the skills and the enterprise to go looking for it . |
| 2 | that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were |
| 3 | The women on the part-time farms were often the only people around during the short winter days so all outside stock had to be attended to by them . |
| 4 | It 's stayed around about the eight just over eight percent , there has n't , there has n't been much movement . |
| 5 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 6 | I think it 's the around about the first or the second of April . |
| 7 | I like mountains around about the 6000 , lower 7000m range . |
| 8 | And , it promises to tell ‘ a much wider tale than just XPG4 ’ at around about the same time . |
| 9 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 10 | So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ? |
| 11 | Erm , first of all , what if the abuser and the abused are around about the same age ? |
| 12 | No , it 's around about the off in n it ? |
| 13 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 14 | But bringing this back into my work , I see myself as good old anarchist Spence , blundering around between the different discourses between cultural politics and alternative health and mainline health and actually being silenced at every count . |
| 15 | The week before , the name of Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens , was being bandied around as the latest answer to all of Wales ' woes . |
| 16 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 17 | On the other hand there will be a greater onus to shop around for the best home for whatever spare cash you may have . |
| 18 | In 1984 we had ended the opticians ' monopoly and taken off the ridiculous restrictions on advertising which prevented the public from shopping around for the best value . |
| 19 | Have the flexibility of being able to shop around for the best possible deals and get the best professional advice ; |
| 20 | Shop around for the best possible deals and the best service . |
| 21 | ‘ First , because other insurers have intermediaries who are forced by competition to look around for the best price . |
| 22 | Now that circumstances have conspired to make an immediate share issue an unattractive option , Dell Computer Corp is looking around for the best alternative to raise cash to finance its soaraway growth . |
| 23 | But an IFA can shop around for the best deals . |
| 24 | The plaintiff can not shop around for the best offer , the two parties must deal with each other and strike an acceptable bargain through their own negotiating skill . |
| 25 | Unless something is done , dealer margins will continue in free fall and the customers will continue to shop around for the best price in the belief that service is universally lousy , and that 's in nobody 's interest . |
| 26 | With higher power , you need more light , so bigger lenses — so try 8x30 , 8x40 , 10x40 or 10x50 at a good store , and shop around for the best price . |
| 27 | Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation . |
| 28 | In Budapest , they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it . |
| 29 | The chub flit in and out of the weed like silent ghosts , grubbing for food , seeking shelter from the bright sun , and sometimes just playing around for the sheer hell of it . |
| 30 | Novell Inc Japan , which will be Univel Inc 's distributor there , is n't waiting around for the Japanese version of UnixWare to start its assault on the market . |