Example sentences of "[be] around [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
| 2 | The Manchester date has already been rescheduled for December 3 — the other dates are not yet confirmed but will be around this time . |
| 3 | The Manchester date has already been rescheduled for December 3 — the other dates are not yet confirmed but will be around this time . |
| 4 | But at least Old Vic is likely to be around next year , when Nashwan will be in residence at the Shadwell Stud of his owner , Hamdan Al Maktoum , vigorously trying to justify a syndication value of £18m . |
| 5 | Why Bart 's must still be around NEXT Christmas |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm afraid I wo n't be around next week . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm away next Wednesday and Thursday , otherwise I 'll be around any time that suits . |
| 8 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 9 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |
| 10 | ‘ Araminta , you were around that day . |
| 11 | If these Old Ones were around last year , we would have noticed , I think . ’ |
| 12 | It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred . |
| 13 | It 's around this time that the optocoupler limiter proves its worth , ensuring that the sound stays clean , even at fairly ridiculous volume levels ( thanks to its 30dB of compression ) . |
| 14 | Plans for ten-week short courses were never realised : the longest is the five-week course for the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Areas of the NUM , the average is around one week , and many are only a weekend . |
| 15 | It is around this time that the demand for films began to increase substantially and producers built larger studios to produce pictures that , while longer than before , were still some way short of what would become established feature length . |
| 16 | The average course time was around one hour 40 mins , but the winning team , ‘ The E Team ’ , completed the course in a staggering one hour and five minutes and answered 20 out of 21 questions correctly — making their course time an amazing 45 mins . |
| 17 | It was around that time that I spotted an advertisement for CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) in the personal column of the Sunday Times . |
| 18 | Whether he was around that night or not we 'll never know , but it seemed that everything that could go amiss , did . |
| 19 | So it appears that completion was around that time although the date is not er , is not certain . |
| 20 | It was around that time that I began to foster the notion that information was being withheld , that somebody was not telling me everything . |
| 21 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 22 | It was around this time that he met George Underwood who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 23 | It was around this time that Seth began a new romance , with Susan Schilling , a preacher 's daughter he met at the dentist 's . |
| 24 | It was around this time that ‘ queer-bashing ’ began in Bath , as in the rest of Britain . |
| 25 | It was around this time that Gregory began to miss concerts spasmodically because he wanted to stay in Leeds for personal reasons . |
| 26 | It was around this time that I first discovered the darker side of ornithology — the effect of man on the environment . |
| 27 | Yet it was around this time that he settled for being an actor . |
| 28 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 29 | As noted earlier , it was around this time that the appointment of a new teacher led to the consideration of a comprehensive study skills package from another school . |
| 30 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |