Example sentences of "around [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great shards of glass were still lying around as a net curtain flapped inside the shattered frame of the blue front door of number 52 . |
| 2 | Similarly , as more attention is paid to CAE , engineering and testing costs become more significant and need to be incorporated into product costs rather than left floating around as a general charge ‘ below the line ’ . |
| 3 | She looked around for a blunt instrument . |
| 4 | The more the Major Government is seen to be drifting and accident prone , the more people scan around for a strong helmsman . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , everyone looked around for a similar opportunity . |
| 6 | Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance . |
| 7 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 8 | Charles looked around for a suitable candidate and nudged , no doubt , by a couple of doting grandmothers , found Lady Diana Spencer . |
| 9 | Casting around for a suitable envoy to go out to Australia on behalf of a contrite British government , the choice fell on Major Julian Layton , an active promoter of the refugee cause whose experience encompassed several weeks on the Isle of Man liaising with the civil administration . |
| 10 | Jill returned in the spring of 1974 and was told to look around for a suitable site . |
| 11 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 12 | Looking around for a possible light , we noticed an elderly couple smoking at a nearby tables . |
| 13 | He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge . |
| 14 | Skinner , who ticked me off yesterday for suggesting his vote had fallen , is off after 14 years , leaving my colleagues on the Sun distraught and casting around for a new NEC contact . |
| 15 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 16 | Formatting to the rear of the Rallye , Legg established radio contact , and gently eased Anderson through a series of power adjustments and manoeuvres to make a practice approach at Cardiff before bringing him around for a successful , damage- and injury-free landing . |
| 17 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 18 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 19 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 20 | It will be around for a long time . |
| 21 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 22 | She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’ |
| 23 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 24 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 25 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 26 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 27 | REGARDLESS of how much longer Norman Lamont survives at No 11 , his Budget will be around for a long time . |
| 28 | Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come . |
| 29 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 30 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |