Example sentences of "surround by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually there arose a faint humming from outside the tent as people gathered to talk and speculate , so it seemed as if those left inside were surrounded by a swarm of curious but not unfriendly bees . |
| 2 | Brassicas , for example , can then be netted against pigeons , or carrots surrounded by a low fence of plastic sheeting to repel root fly . |
| 3 | The back garden was a small square of lawn bordered by rhododendrons which , in turn , were surrounded by a high wattle fence . |
| 4 | The demand for elegance carries with it the requirement to fit in with existing furniture and although talking points can be useful , a table surrounded by a set of such chairs could be a positive eyesore . |
| 5 | Almost entirely surrounded by a circle of water that formed part of the original fortifications , and still linked to its neighbours and the port of Zeebrugge about eight miles away by canals , Bruges ' attraction is that its medieval architecture is remarkably intact . |
| 6 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 7 | A reading of the directives of the Smolensk guberniia committee to all executive committees at lower levels for 1922 reveals centrally isolated bureaucrats surrounded by a swamp of unreliable social elements . |
| 8 | As he reclined in his sofa , surrounded by a treasure trove of knick-knacks collected from around the world , Mark said he had always had a taste for travel . |
| 9 | The house is surrounded by a high wall . |
| 10 | Erika was ready for a treat and a moment later , surrounded by a forest of plants which gave the café an Amazonian aspect , they were seated and ordering coffee and cakes . |
| 11 | No one moving , not a man nor a woman , not a car or a motor bike , not even a dog barking under the sickle moon which shone in an opalescent sky surrounded by a diadem of stars . |
| 12 | Beyond it , to the east , was a meadow , thick with fritillaries in spring and surrounded by a wooded path , known ( after the essayist and moralist who was a fellow of the College in the early eighteenth century ) as Addison 's Walk . |
| 13 | It now seems certain that St Paul 's Cathedral will not be surrounded by a modernist wall , but by a sympathetic series of buildings in the best classical tradition . |
| 14 | The following morning , Arty was taken by ambulance to the huge Victorian red-brick pile on the edge of town — a massive structure set well back in the fields and surrounded by a high wall to protect the sensibilities of the sane from too close a confrontation with one of society 's more disagreeable problems . |
| 15 | She sat on the bed , as on the sand of some ebb sea , surrounded by a vast loneliness . |
| 16 | Each is surrounded by a ring of five Ts but each T is shared between three pentagons . |
| 17 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 18 | Prince Johnson , the rebel who sliced off Doe 's ears before ( according to Mr Johnson ) forcing him to eat one while Mr Johnson chewed on the other , has given up asking to be president but is now surrounded by a team of ‘ advisers ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Eh ? ’ said Bella , surprised out of her personal nightmare : the one where she sat , in a big room , unable to move , imprisoned in her crippled body , surrounded by a sea of senile faces , while a pitying young woman stuck a baby 's cup between her toothless gums so that she could suck lukewarm tea out of it . |
| 20 | We sat on her bedroom floor , surrounded by a stack of Looks , Elle , Cosmopolitan and Just 17 magazines , and I asked Janet to describe herself . |
| 21 | But becoming a woman does n't happen in a vacuum ; girls are surrounded by a mass of images and ideas about the female body and female sexuality , about periods and breasts , and about what exactly ‘ a woman ’ means , in our society . |
| 22 | At the end of the evening Surkov was surrounded by a group of admirers soliciting autographs , and he shouted at us to go on back to the hotel , he would join us in a while . |
| 23 | The cells of eukaryotes have a nucleus , surrounded by a membrane , and containing a number of rod-shaped chromosomes . |
| 24 | Imagine , then , a cell surrounded by a membrane , and suppose that survival of the cell requires that some substance , X , be concentrated inside . |
| 25 | In higher mammals , it turns out that , for most axons in the optic nerve , the most effective optical stimulus is a light spot surrounded by a dark surround . |
| 26 | Above it the Boyne coat of arms , surrounded by a cannon , flags and spears , forms the centre-piece of the ceiling . |
| 27 | Fur collar hunched round his shoulders , flat hat askew , he was surrounded by a background warm with a sense of movement , an atmosphere thronged with the memories and moments of a long life . |
| 28 | Domain I , from the N terminus ( residue 61 ) to residue 290 is a seven helix bundle , with one central helix ( α 5 ) completely surrounded by a ring of six others . |
| 29 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 30 | The swimming pool is also surrounded by a great sun terrace . |