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be surrounded by controversy
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The circumstances of her death were surrounded by controversy.
controversy surrounds sth
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the controversy surrounding modern farming methods
mystery surrounds sth (= something cannot be explained )
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Mystery has always surrounded the purpose of the great stone circle of Stonehenge.
the circumstances surrounding sth
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Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident.
the events surrounding sth (= the events that are closely related to a situation )
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The events surrounding her death remain a mystery.
the issues surrounding sth
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This chapter discusses the ethical issues surrounding genetically modified foods.
the mystery surrounding sth
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Research has unravelled much of the mystery surrounding the ageing process.
the myths surrounding sth (= relating to something )
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the myths surrounding rural life
the scandal surrounding sth
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They had tried to protect the prime minster from the scandal surrounding the arms sales.
the surrounding area (= the area around a place )
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The tourist office will have a map of the surrounding area.
the surrounding countryside
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Both the town and the surrounding countryside are worth exploring.
the surrounding districts (= in the area around or next to something )
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The market attracts farmers from the surrounding district.
the taboo surrounding sth (= relating to something )
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John's work did much to remove the taboo surrounding the disease.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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area
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Nowhere is it easier to blackmail than in the criminal underworld and the grey areas of conduct that surround it.
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The Mormon Lake area is surrounded by ponderosa pines, and the lodge sits in a small valley surrounded by mountains.
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Avoid over-the-counter medication containing benzoyl peroxide and alcohol - it dehydrates the area surrounding the spot.
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A team of police have spent the day searching the area surrounding the house.
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The zoogeographical area that surrounds this line is sometimes called the Wallacean sub-region.
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Perversely, however, wildlife in the area immediately surrounding the Chernobyl reactor appears to be flourishing 14 years after the accident.
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Oil slick prompts no-fishing zone Fishermen have introduced a voluntary ban on fishing in the area surrounding the Shetland oil slick.
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Easily Accessible: There are numerous pretty villages to visit in the area and all are surrounded by the lovely unspoilt countryside.
building
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There was sand on the ground, about four inches deep, completely surrounding the building .
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It is almost entirely surrounded by walls of buildings .
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It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse.
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A house that gets little sun now, shadowed by the surrounding buildings that have sprung up.
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Within minutes, Army and police surrounded the building and sharp-shooters trained their weapons on the holed-up gang.
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More than 600 people were injured and 300 surrounding buildings were damaged by the force of the explosion.
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A tower block looms over the surrounding buildings and a local joke asks: What is the tallest building in Archangel?
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Sixty-five acres of cinders surround some single-story office buildings and several large warehouses.
circumstances
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The circumstances surrounding the victory threw up their own difficulties.
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The situation for teachers without tenure varies according to the circumstances surrounding the dismissal.
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He lied about the circumstances surrounding the suicide of White House counsel Vince Foster.
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The circumstances surrounding an event are what really drive our perceptions.
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Furthermore, people are more likely to report suspicious circumstances surrounding an individual who appears to be of lower-class origin.
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Reargument was largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.
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If anything, the psychological condition of the black sportsman should be tension-packed given the social circumstances surrounding his involvement.
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They should not be put in automatically, but only after consideration as to the circumstances surrounding the formation of the contract.
city
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The smaller streets criss-crossed on a grid pattern and the town walls surrounded an eight-sided city .
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She has always been surrounded by the city .
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Yet it was afternoon before they came to the great wall that surrounded the City .
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Forests surrounding the city are being rapidly felled for fuelwood, and 80 percent of them are in a severely depleted state.
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The Ringstrasse was built on a huge tract of open land surrounding the city which had previously served as a military fortification.
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Ibn Battuta was lucky enough to see it in its prime: The walls which surround this city are simply unparalleled.
confusion
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Unfortunate Timing Initial confusion surrounding work assignments resulted in part from unfortunate timing.
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It calls for an easily understood system to end the confusion surrounding pesticide names.
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It is not condemning Gorbachev to point out the confusion surrounding the dismantling of the Soviet Union as a political entity.
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In contrast, turbulent confusion has always surrounded his theory of labour supply.
controversy
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There was some controversy surrounding a production of Swan Lake recently.
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Bennett also criticized Gingrich for his handling of a controversy surrounding Jackson and Rep.
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The controversy which surrounded Robertson's goal attempt for Hearts three minutes from the end provided the only genuine excitement.
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One can understand the long-standing controversies surrounding the status of medical care and housing.
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She has stood by him loyally, despite the controversy surrounding their friendship.
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It also includes the controversies that surrounded him.
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The controversies surrounding severe mental handicap which began in the early 1980s sparked off a national debate which continues today.
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Similar controversies surround vitamin C, ascorbic acid.
death
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She is at her best describing the injustices of marriage and the grief surrounding the deaths of children.
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Degaying began in 1985 amid the flurry of publicity surrounding the illness and death of actor Rock Hudson.
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The more he analysed the events surrounding King Alexander's death , the more certain he became it was murder.
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A statement issued by Staffordshire police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the sergeant's death .
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There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death .
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The mystery surrounding his death still haunts his family.
debate
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An important debate surrounding the concept of enterprise zones has been the question of displacement.
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Here I propose to confine my discussion to the contemporary debate surrounding the electoral system as an electoral system.
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This attempt is being fully charted with a view to furthering the methodological debate which surrounds this aspect of data production and analysis.
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This debate surrounds the reliance theory of contracts, for example.
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There will be great debate surrounding the engine and many questions will be raised that can not be answered except in terms of likelihood.
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An inexhaustible debate surrounds the transformations of the upper class in the nineteenth century.
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There are, however, a series of debates surrounding UDCs that need to be mentioned.
event
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Henriette Nizan recalled in 1980 the events surrounding the assassination of Kirov in Moscow in December 1934.
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Generally parents can recall the events surrounding the birth and their reactions in great detail.
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The Foreign Secretary opened his speech by referring to the monumental events that now surround us.
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Congress took note of the events surrounding the march and the Liuzzo murder.
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The more he analysed the events surrounding King Alexander's death, the more certain he became it was murder.
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The account of the events surrounding the violence is punctuated with contradictions.
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Isaac proceeds as if he knows nothing of the events surrounding the pot of soup.
family
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He died surrounded by his family .
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Both here and back in the capital city he would be surrounded by family and people who loved him.
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Three or four tables are surrounded by large happy families chatting, laughing and toasting each other's health.
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Mental illness is a crucial event not only to the afflicted person but to the surrounding family members.
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She died at Roebuck House, her Dublin home, 27 April 1953, surrounded by her family .
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They sit in a circle surrounded by family and friends.
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I had heard from informed sources that she had gone home around Christmas to spend her last days surrounded by family .
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Both Maddy and Patrick were professionally successful at an early age, secure, and surrounded by helpful family .
garden
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Le Sport is surrounded by tropical gardens on a secluded bay of golden sand.
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The hotel is surrounded by palm-studded gardens , and has a disco club and sailing jetty.
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He sat on the low wall surrounding the pier gardens .
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We see the lights of the houses that surround the garden .
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There is a wonderfully positioned swimming pool with relaxing sunloungers, surrounded by well-kept gardens and a lovely loggia.
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The main buildings here, as at Caracalla, were surrounded by gardens and gymnasia.
home
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Hundreds of demonstrators have surrounded Suharto's home in the past few months, calling for him to be jailed or hanged.
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It is surrounded by cottage homes , once thatched.
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Diplomats reported seeing troops surrounding Lekhanya's home and armoured vehicles in the streets of Maseru, the capital.
house
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Armed police later surrounded a house in High Street, Pershore and arrested a man in his 30's.
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Prodigies of cooking were already under way in surrounding houses .
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The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants.
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But their efforts at conversation became increasingly difficult as the surrounding house party grew more and more riotous.
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A country lane surrounding the house was sealed off and police from throughout the county were called to the scene.
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Laws prohibit political fund-raising on government property, which is the focus of some of the questions surrounding White House fund-raising practices.
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Armed man surrenders after police surround house .
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Half a dozen neighbors came to check on us early Tuesday, when overland flooding surrounded our house .
issue
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Not withstanding important differences, there are clear similarities in the issues surrounding the residential care of children in the three countries.
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Overworking will be magnified by health issues surrounding computer use.
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Into these debates, therefore, the issues surrounding women and religion introduce their own questions and analyses.
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While the issues surrounding home banking appear to be growing in complexity, so are the opportunities and challenges for bankers.
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Gordon was an educational psychologist who had devoted his career to the issues surrounding the teaching of disadvantaged youth.
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Unfortunately the deeper issues surrounding the cloning of a human being have received short shrift or no attention at all.
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Interviews done in the week after the shows aired found dramatic increases in awareness and understanding of medical issues surrounding both topics.
mystery
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There are many theories but the mystery surrounding Stonehenge is as perpetual as the stones themselves.
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After all, this was by no means the only mystery surrounding Dad: almost nothing about him was straight forward or simple.
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There is some mystery surrounding Theta Eridani, or Acamar.
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The advisory committee report did little to resolve the mystery surrounding Gulf War illness.
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There are all sorts of mysteries surrounding this story.
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Their purchase of an old desk provides Tom with a clue to the mystery surrounding Raybrick's savings.
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Of Waqar Younis there is less to be said. Mystery surrounds his age.
police
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When we landed at New Delhi the plane was surrounded by police .
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Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police , strike up conversations and present them with letters.
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The house was surrounded by police and after Rennie had freed Marita, police went in and arrested him.
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For the next 32 hours, students surrounded the police car and held about 600 officers at bay.
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Protesters were surrounded by police and herded on to school buses.
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She was surrounded by police and social workers.
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He is surrounded by police , reporters and photographers who move with him like bees in a swarm.
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Lynwood Drake then took a 60-year-old woman hostage but shot himself dead when her house was surrounded by armed police .
problem
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It has also elegantly solved the problems surrounding theft with the aid of a computer.
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Human problems are surrounded by great uncertainty in the nature of problems, implementation of solutions, and evaluation of outcomes.
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This showed some of the methodological problems surrounding such tables and how such difficulties could be reduced in future.
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The strategic placing of the track or pole is the solution to many of the problems surrounding window-dressing.
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As if technical problems were not enough, there are also a number of conceptual problems surrounding the application of these methods.
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The problems surrounding the termination of the mentally handicapped are not just moral, but practical and medical.
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But space availability is not the only problem surrounding the landfill option.
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Part of the problem surrounding the disposal of industrial waste is lack of control.
publicity
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As soon as Hitler's trial was over, the blaze of publicity surrounding him vanished.
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Degaying began in 1985 amid the flurry of publicity surrounding the illness and death of actor Rock Hudson.
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Now detectives can only hope that publicity surrounding the funeral will encourage some one to come forward and help them catch the murderer.
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Even at Sunday River, despite the publicity surrounding the Godson caper, there have been no other such incidents.
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C., at the time of the hearings and the publicity that surrounded him focused congressional attention on both issues.
secrecy
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The crisis of visibility concerns the notorious secrecy that surrounds prisons and what goes on inside them.
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Perhaps, no decision caused more trouble for the past council than the secrecy that surrounded the Amazon.com deal.
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Unprecedented secrecy and conflicting information surrounds the launch of the book.
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An indication of the secrecy surrounding Buckley is an episode that took place in September 1977.
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The secrecy that surrounded Emor had been a large part of its charm.
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Hierarchy is perceived to operate very strongly and there is a great deal of secrecy surrounding ideas.
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The secrecy which surrounded the location of a world under survey evaluation was essential in most instances.
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Since its beginnings in the mid-1950s, the secrecy surrounding Sugar Grove has been intense.
side
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Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides .
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Behind them are fields of corn and beans and wheat surrounded on all sides by mountains.
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They are long, narrow strips of land surrounded on at least three sides by canals.
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We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side .
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It was a gloomy place with its black water and its overhanging willows, surrounded on all sides by overgrown woodland.
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It is the best area in Britain for megalithic sites, and is surrounded on three sides by the sea.
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There are masses of aliens surrounding you on all sides .
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By 3.00 the police had surrounded demonstrators on every side in Trafalgar Square, where an uneasy stand-off was maintained.
town
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Large amounts of cotton are also grown in irrigated fields surrounding the town .
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It is surrounded by interesting market towns such as Hexham and Prudhoe which are a pleasure to browse through.
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Thousands of camels were tethered on hills surrounding the town .
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He thought the surrounding towns must lie in ruins now, too.
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The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years.
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Also of interest is the surrounding town , full of antiques and art galleries and several interesting restaurants.
tree
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The farmhouse rests on a rocky slope and is surrounded by beech trees .
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The office and the parking lot were in a little clearing surrounded by large trees .
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It was surrounded by spruce trees and bougainvillaea, with a high bank leading up to the front door.
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All of it flowed to a field of satellite dishes surrounded by spruce trees a few hundred yards from the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
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It is close to high cliffs where leopards live and it is surrounded by trees , which make cattle-ambush easy.
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She seemed less human, less aware, than the surrounding trees .
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The waterfall was surrounded by sweet-smelling trees that modern botanists say were probably Aquilaria sinensis.
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As he crawled away from the burning wreckage he thought he was surrounded by trees .
uncertainty
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It is supposed to end the uncertainty surrounding the limits of control of young people in residential care.
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Analysts point to similar uncertainty surrounding how programs will be converted from the Internet to the boxes.
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Larger capital intensive firms equally benefit from the reduced levels of uncertainty surrounding their future investment plans.
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It certainly came at an ideal time, given the uncertainty surrounding this team.
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Thirdly, uncertainty now surrounds the future of the industry.
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There may be uncertainties surrounding melatonin, but it is clearly the dose of the moment.
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Similar uncertainties surround 100,000 other stars in the Sun's neighbourhood.
village
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The annual per capita income in Teofilandia and its surrounding villages is roughly $ 140, compared with about $ 4,800 nationally.
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But the people of Odzak and the surrounding villages are taking no chances.
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They are carefully collected from the slopes surrounding the village .
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Incongruities include not only hills surrounding the village and the pristine buildings.
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As large cities, like Bristol, have grown outwards they have surrounded some old villages .
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Towering mountains surround the village and the area around St Anton is fantastic for walking.
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Naturally there are many walks to be enjoyed in the surrounding countryside, and through the lemon groves that surround the village .
wall
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The walls surrounding the courtyard used to protect what was once a fortress but which is now a youth hostel.
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The trucks and trailers and buses fitted together like bricks in a wall surrounding the complex.
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It faintly illuminated the interior wall paintings that surrounded them.
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Yet it was afternoon before they came to the great wall that surrounded the City.
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Ybreska vaulted over the low, crumbling wall surrounding the old churchyard on to the rough pitted track which led towards Tbilisi.
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The smaller streets criss-crossed on a grid pattern and the town walls surrounded an eight-sided city.
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He could see a wall of green uniforms surrounding it.
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Above: Drifting slowly up the reef wall , curious fish surround a diver.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A great deal of controversy has surrounded the new drug.
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Football fans ran onto the field and surrounded the referee.
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Mountains surround the village on three sides.
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Police officers moved to surround Evans as he came out of the courtroom.
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She sat in an armchair, surrounded by her 12 cats.
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We've got the place surrounded. Come out with your hands up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hopis perform their Snake Dance surrounded by Anglos armed with tripods, in 1897.
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Le Sport is surrounded by tropical gardens on a secluded bay of golden sand.
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The controversy surrounding the film was doubtless a contributory factor to Hollywood's subsequent avoidance of the subject.
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This is a city which lives for today while surrounded by its past.
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This new instrument found the first direct evidence of solid matter surrounding stars other than our Sun.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Like the skin comparison neurons in the spinal cord, the center may be excitatory and the surround inhibitory.
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The graceful brass plated trimmings and finials are complemented here by the solid pine Osborne surround .
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We think the inhibition is part of an inhibitory surround that helps focus neural activity in the dominant hemisphere.