Example sentences of "surrounded by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rustic cottage was surrounded by topiary and flowers and was surmounted by a chimney-pot , out of which incongruously sprouted the trolley pole ! ( see p. 112 ) . |
| 2 | As of late July both camps were surrounded by army units and Murr insisted that the blockade would continue until all heavy and medium-calibre weaponry had been turned over to the government . |
| 3 | The bricklaying course has some interchange with a local college and the prison instructor , surrounded by test pieces his charges had made ( ornate archways , window frames and decorative walls ) took pride in recalling that the prison ‘ pupils ’ often outshone their tree counterparts . |
| 4 | The range of facilities offered by this hotel are superb : magnificent freeform swimming pools surrounded by sun terraces , sporting opportunities ranging from tennis to deep sea fishing , and a choice of restaurants and bars cover the gamut of cuisine . |
| 5 | Now I am in heaven — no , not dead just surrounded by metal detectors ! |
| 6 | It was such a beautiful bridge , surrounded by date palm orchards , I used to cross it almost every day on my way to work . |
| 7 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 8 | The warmth and colour which lies at the heart of the poet though , whilst surrounded by cold , dark , lifelessness shines through for his beloved to see . |
| 9 | The ceiling in the old kitchen was painted dark grey and etched with circles , some enclosing helixes and geometric foliate forms , while the fireplaces were surrounded by brickwork , itself painted over and ornamented in all kinds of ways . |
| 10 | Being surrounded by sea on three sides , Wales has a far higher proportion of lower lying land than the Auvergne and its high upland or mountain areas are far less extensive . |
| 11 | Linnaeus himself retained a dispersal of all species from a single mountain , formerly surrounded by sea . |
| 12 | ‘ After every high tide , comes the ebb , and in an area surrounded by sea , it is part of the natural rhythm of life . |
| 13 | But Sir Edmond had survived and , surrounded by change , he saw continuity in God and in His Church . |
| 14 | The farmhouse rests on a rocky slope and is surrounded by beech trees . |
| 15 | Who can believe diagrams , anyway , when there is only a neat hole surrounded by untrodden grass and no sign of the spoil taken out … where do they put it ? |
| 16 | You do n't have to have the country house surrounded by untrodden snow , though you could still have that or some similar strictly physical limitation . |
| 17 | It is surrounded by cottage homes , once thatched . |
| 18 | MANY of Britain 's industrial towns and cities are surrounded by wilderness , which sometimes has acquired the official designation of ‘ urban common ’ ; but all of them have wasteland within their bounds which may be no less deserving of such recognition . |
| 19 | Somewhere not far away , surrounded by jungle , Chloe and the sepoy lay side by side and rotted , or were eaten by the specialist animals of the night . |
| 20 | Beautifully situated on a sunny mountain plateau high above the Inn Valley , and surrounded by flower filled meadows , Igls is a charming and peaceful village with the bonus of being only four miles from Innsbruck , the lovely capital of the Tyrol . |
| 21 | The fact that individual identity is surrounded by doubt and confusion in this way prompts of course the anxious question in such as myself , ‘ Who was Marcel Proust ? ’ and ‘ Has one identified him in terms appropriate to a centenary celebration ? ’ |
| 22 | A cave surrounded by myth and folklore . ’ |
| 23 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 24 | There is , for example , a vessel on a stand surrounded by ropework . |
| 25 | The reefs in Denmark are surrounded by carbonate mudstones and in this case they probably grew on the upper part of the submarine slope rather than at the edge of the platform . |
| 26 | Twenty years of working at home later , was n't that same celebrated swinger someone whose body language suggested he was surrounded by concern for his surroundings ? |
| 27 | I was wearing a large theatrical ring with an enormous ‘ emerald ’ surrounded by paste diamonds and he bent more closely to look at it . |
| 28 | Previously surrounded by school mates and push-bikes , he is now surrounded by the clinical smell of the hospital and the sight of other sick children , some of whom may be minus their hair . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I was surrounded by music from birth , practically . |
| 30 | Set in complete seclusion in thirteen and a half acres of landscaped gardens and fields and surrounded by woodland , Mizzards is an exceptionally attractive 16th-century farmhouse built of brick and stone . |