Example sentences of "surround by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens . |
| 2 | Throughout the area in which amber beads are found there appear to be single , sometimes adjacent cemeteries with relatively large numbers of beads surrounded by cemeteries with lesser quantities . |
| 3 | ‘ Next thing we knew we were surrounded by cops . |
| 4 | It is surrounded by states with internal conflicts and has received successive waves of refugees . |
| 5 | Inside , the surgeons , surrounded by dustbins filled with lopped-off limbs , did the best they could to patch up the ghastly wounds caused by the huge shell splinters . |
| 6 | Towards the end of his life , he had to be surrounded by bodyguards to protect him from germs and from contact with reality . |
| 7 | Israel is surrounded by countries which are very hostile to her and do not accept her existence . |
| 8 | When I came round I was back in M.3 surrounded by screens , with Sister Dempsey sitting in a chair beside me . |
| 9 | They face a prime minister , surrounded by figures such as Chris Patten and Michael Heseltine , who shows an appetite for developing Toryism beyond the agenda it had in the 1980s . |
| 10 | The 300-year-old Auberge is a solid , timbered house surrounded by woods and fields . |
| 11 | Situated on a hillside surrounded by woods , the Jelenice is close to the lake ( about 5/6 minutes walk away ) and was particularly well liked by our clients who stayed there last summer for its warm and friendly atmosphere created without doubt by a dedicated management and staff . |
| 12 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 13 | The village of Ladock itself is surrounded by woods through which a nature trail runs and there are many local footpaths and , of course , the long coastal walks to enjoy . |
| 14 | Easily Accessible : Here , you are right in the depths of the Devon countryside , surrounded by woods , farmland and gentle hills . |
| 15 | The studio is set in the heart of the South Downs surrounded by woods and fields with Lavington Common , once home to the painter Ivon Hitchens , only a two minute walk away . |
| 16 | In the summer , he lived in a little house surrounded by sunflowers higher than it was , beside a village with a pale blue pump in the centre , with geese marching around , pigeons gurgling ( they have a different accent on the Continent ) and people sitting on walls gossiping in the evening . |
| 17 | The curtains were open and Finn stood on the stage surrounded by cans of paint , open eyes of pure of colour , working on a blackcloth showing a sea with a blood-orange sunset , something like the background to the picture of the dog in the kitchen . |
| 18 | He was succeeded at Carr 's Lane by J. H. Jowett who transformed the chapel , by now surrounded by slums , into an ‘ institutional church ’ with its own ‘ Institute ’ which had a cafe , billiards room , lecture hall and cinema . |
| 19 | I think the Club 's beautiful setting helped : a little village with squares and winding paths surrounded by gardens , on a pine-clad slope just outside Paguera . |
| 20 | The richer people , who could afford it , built large houses surrounded by gardens , mostly on the pleasanter side of the city ( K1 ) . |
| 21 | Surrounded by gardens , the hotel has its own large pool flanked by an abundance of tables and chairs shaded by colourful awnings and served by the bar . |
| 22 | The houses were surrounded by gardens , some with a little front wall , and some with high laurel hedges , or holly trees that scratched you as you walked by . |
| 23 | The main buildings here , as at Caracalla , were surrounded by gardens and gymnasia . |
| 24 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 25 | The child is surrounded by GIANTS , and the trouble with these beastly GIANTS is that they seem to spend most of their lives telling the child WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO . |
| 26 | Another group of prisoners , themselves surrounded by guns and dogs , waited for the slow column to clear the road so that they themselves could pass on . |
| 27 | The Renault was surrounded by guns , some of them automatic weapons . |
| 28 | At that time she was still living in an Alpine town surrounded by mountain-tops silhouetted in the distance . |
| 29 | One peculiarly disturbing double-spread shows the best-selling author surrounded by agents dickering over subsidiary rights , translations , movie deals and lucrative licensing contracts . |
| 30 | In those days the fields were still small and surrounded by hedges and the lanes ran deep between lush banks . |