The phrase "a tunnel around" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where you are describing a tunnel that encircles or surrounds something, but it is not a common expression.
Example: "The construction project involved creating a tunnel around the city to improve traffic flow."
Alternatives: "a tunnel encircling" or "a tunnel surrounding".
As a Q train emerged from a tunnel around noon and rolled across the Manhattan Bridge, about a dozen passengers rushed to the windows to view New York's newly leveled landscape.
A large earthquake could disrupt the state's water supply and inundate the delta itself.The best answer, says Ellen Hanak, a water expert at the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California, is to build either a canal or a tunnel around the delta.
At about 3500 meters, the grassland gives way to trees draped in moss so dense it forms a tunnel around the path.
Most often, the loops form a tunnel around the catalytic residues; therefore, substrates usually are directed from the end of the tunnel to encounter the active site of the enzyme (Juturu and Wu 2014).
The interaction between the protruding loop from one subunit and residues that collectively form a tunnel around the loop from the other subunit is the major contributor to the binding interface in AcrB.
The accident took place on the A Grandeira curve, which is just after a tunnel and follows around 80km of more or less straight track.
One shows a group of miners inside a tunnel posing around a large portrait of Mao and holding up copies of Mao's Little Red Book.
People misunderstood the internet with a tunnel vision around its early use cases (e.g. internet = email, or internet = Web).
Open image in new window Fig. 8 a A blunt elevator is used to create a subperiosteal tunnel around the bone to be osteotomised.
Dan Deacon, already known for interactivity in his live shows, then made the amphitheater crowd his party putty the same night—he divided them up and started a dance competition, and later organised a human tunnel around the edge of the venue.
Dan Deacon, already known for interactivity in his live shows, then made the amphitheater crowd his party putty the same night—he divided them up and started a dance competition, and later organized a human tunnel around the edge of the venue.
