Example sentences of "[be] around [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wo n't be around for the other sessions |
| 2 | In that case , we want to be around for the big money in the fourth , fifth and sixth records . |
| 3 | You 'd think he 'd have told you he would n't be around for the next week or two . |
| 4 | It is no short-term measure it is the most important development for more than 50 years and it will be around for the next century . ’ |
| 5 | But if you do n't want it preserved , I think it would be so nice to have in college , if only for next year 's students , and you also would be around for the next two years , I mean if you 're doing , if you 're doing a language erm , option next year , or even a language recitation erm , this would be quite nice material to use for that . |
| 6 | ‘ I plan to be around over the next few weeks while we get this new image launched , and we expect you to be very visible . |
| 7 | The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | Most SMP vendors believe an efficient and scalable SMP version of Windows NT wo n't be around until the second or third release , which are reportedly scheduled to be rolled-out mid 1993 . |
| 9 | Erm , first of all , what if the abuser and the abused are around about the same age ? |
| 10 | ‘ I always seem to do my best when the big players are around on the big occasion , not at smaller tournaments like these . ’ |
| 11 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | Lick and stick stamps have been around since the 1840s , but by the turn of the century it 's thought self-adhesives will be the norm . |
| 13 | Research identified that retailers were using cheap methods of display which had been around since the 1950's . |
| 14 | Hand dragged furniture had been around since the 18th century . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 18 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 19 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 20 | Had the paparazzi been around in the early days of his marriage it 's doubtful Philip would have escaped criticism . |
| 21 | Chairman before before you do finally er pack your bag and zoom off back to wherever it is you 're going , could I on behalf of the county council and all of our participants here today and those who 've been around in the last fortnight thank you and Miss Whittaker and your assistant able assistants er Mrs Binns and Dave in the programme office for the sterling work they 've done . |
| 22 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 23 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 24 | They are one of the earliest known insects , fossils being around from the Carboniferous period , and today there are some 4,000 species worldwide . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | No , it 's around about the off in n it ? |
| 27 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |