Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the parliament building around 2,000 Finns staged protests ; farmers were particularly concerned that they would lose substantial subsidies . |
| 2 | The same applies to Eckhard Pfeiffer , who has certainly turned Compaq Computer Corp around for the time being , but has not been in the job long enough to demonstrate proven staying power . |
| 3 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 4 | Just a case of taking the tape deck around and if you 're not having a conversation yo you can use the radio so I 'm not really worried . |
| 5 | In the past 12 months alone , burglaries are down almost 8 per cent , car crime around 50 per cent . |
| 6 | THE Great Bread Basket Racket is costing the bakery industry around £6 million a year . |
| 7 | The line of a jaw , the curve of a breast , the way the hair falls just so : as well as this potent mix of stored physical ideals — what Simonde de Beauvoir called ‘ incandescence ’ — you are , like it or not , influenced by fundamental programming which dictates that , while the ‘ higher ’ processes of your mind dicker around in a gadfly twentieth-century way , the areas of the brain that control instinctive behaviour are looking for a mate , a woman of energy and physical alertness : a good breeder . |
| 8 | But it 's not invisible unless you move the cell pointer around all over the place looking in the top left hand corner . |
| 9 | Well there were electricians there were carpenters , the carpenters were into directly involved with building aircraft but they used to create the engines and make engine stands such things and do maintenance work around . |
| 10 | He said that he and Karen could have , he said at the present prices he and this Karen that he 's , that left him er they , they could have had erm a place together because some one bedroom flats , two bedroom flats around are going at thirty five thousand , thirty one . |
| 11 | This in turn makes it easy to move light fittings around : many low-voltage lights are mounted on spikes with this in mind . |
| 12 | His role was ill-defined except to himself and other members of his union , but he spent most of his time carting scenery around and moving heavy props into position . |
| 13 | First to post a target was Tupper , who pulled his own appreciation society around with him . |
| 14 | I 'm not carrying that tape recorder around with you all day Richard |
| 15 | You could be forgiven for thinking the only ‘ grand challenge ’ IBM Corp faces is turning its profit and loss account around . |
| 16 | Of the Meikleour property the most successful lot was the outstanding pair of Louis XVI ormolu-mounted vases of Egyptian alabaster , made for the duc d'Aumont around 1770–75 and purchased for 13,801 livres at the celebrated Aumont sale in 1782 by Louis XVI . |
| 17 | Erm it smothers the flames they ca n't get oxygen if there 's carbon dioxide around . |
| 18 | It was made at the Bow porcelain factory around 1758 but its most valuable feature was the signature Ja Welsh on the footrim . |
| 19 | The TS4525 is n't the fastest tape unit around , but you 'll be hard put to find a better compromise between performance and convenience . |
| 20 | Finally , she grabbed hold of the dispenser 's cooling fin whilst it was waving a krill doughnut around in a vain attempt to attract custom , pulled it close and , in a casual and unremarkable manner , moved her hand down to the dispenser 's access plate and ran her fingers around the seam until she felt a magnetic bolt buzzing beneath her fingers . |
| 21 | If you are closer , then your foot curls around and strikes with the knee still part-flexed . |
| 22 | We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand . |
| 23 | Employees who first went through the Heartwatch programme around two and a half years ago will soon be recalled for another assessment . |
| 24 | ( LB ) BELOW : Inside the woodworking department around 1920 . |
| 25 | Perhaps the best icon editor around is Icon Make-It , which is available for £59.95 from Guildsoft on . |
| 26 | The DTI today pledged to dump the existing system which produces an injury total 100 times less than council statistics around 800 against 80,000 a year . |
| 27 | The programs include Disk Doctor , which cures hard disk problems ; and Disk Editor , one of the best sector editors around . |
| 28 | Obviously our readers are among the best machine knitters around but this month we take the opportunity to demonstrate this fact . |
| 29 | But as well as Carol with her pick of the best winter coats around , next week we 'll also have Katie Wood in Legoland and the hysterically funny Kevin Kline in conversation with Mr Showbiz John Millar . |
| 30 | It 's because that 's the sort of trace you get with an oxygen minimum around eight hundred metres . |