Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] centre on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This study centred on the group nature and aspects of football support and of delinquency at football matches . |
| 2 | Further speculation centred on the financial state of the main Maxwell companies . |
| 3 | Although much of this criticism centres on the misuse of his work by others , some more substantive arguments are that middle-class values inform his conceptual distinctions and that these are insufficiently grounded in the raw data of speech patterns . |
| 4 | By contrast , the number density of the ions and electrons falls in proportion to the square of the distance from the Sun , because roughly the same number of ions ( and electrons ) is being spread over a growing spherical area centred on the Sun . |
| 5 | A sphere in this space centred on the origin and passing through the coordinate r will have an area and a circumference . |
| 6 | Much of the subsequent controversy about this analysis centred on the question of youth unemployment . |
| 7 | Another controversy centred on the issue of compensation for some 2,000,000 Sudeten Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War and for Czech victims of fascism . |
| 8 | Allegations this time centred on the Cork Corporation municipal dump on the Kinsale Road in Cork city . |
| 9 | Until recently , the crucial question centred on the role schools played in determining which children rise socially ( Anthony Heath and John Ridge , ‘ Schools , examinations and occupational attainment ’ , reprinted in Achievement and Inequality in Education , ed . |
| 10 | Arthur Munby 's diaries from the 1850s through to the 1870s , point to further examples of middle-class male desire centred on the physical coarseness of working women . |
| 11 | Much argument centred on the proper meanings to be attached to particular words such as ‘ economic ’ and on the recent history of transport legislation . |
| 12 | Much discussion centred on the draft revisions to the ECOWAS treaty submitted to the heads of state by a committee of eminent persons chaired by Gen. Yakubu Gowon , the former Nigerian head of state . |
| 13 | A second problem centred on the sessions provided by non-nurse speakers . |
| 14 | The latest march came amidst renewed signs of Hindu-Moslem hostility centring on the disputed mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , where the BJP state government formally took possession of 1.12 hectares of land around the shrine on Nov. 3 [ see p. 38532 ] . |
| 15 | WITCHES ABROAD ( Corgi , £3.99 ) , is his 12th Discworld novel and is a clever yarn centred on the witches from a previous tale , Wyrd Sisters . |
| 16 | The funding of a Die-hard journalistic empire centred on the Morning Post , the Patriot and the Boswell Publishing Company , by Alan Percy , the eight Duke of Northumberland , and Dame Lucy Houston , was non-fascist in inspiration , although the Patriot supported the British Fascists ( BF ) . |
| 17 | A second trial of 24 people , accused of working for an allegedly pro-Iraqi newspaper , al-Nidaa , was adjourned on May 21 amid widespread international criticism centring on the conduct of the trials . |
| 18 | The play is based on David Jones 's book — an epic poem centred on the First World War but bringing in Welsh military history and mythological references from Roman times . |
| 19 | The swoops followed four months of intense undercover work centred on the Scotland Road area . |
| 20 | Thursday morning sees us en route to America 's dairyland , Wisconsin , for a three-day visit centred on the World Dairy Expo in Madison . |
| 21 | The National Child Development Study involving all 17 000 children born in Great Britain during the first week of March , 1958 is an example ; although the initial interest centred on the effects of gestational experience on childhood development the cohort is still intermittently used in a variety of studies . |
| 22 | Currie was a small community centred on the town farms . |
| 23 | The first argument centred on the producer 's plan to sample Charman 's kit , a process where pads are used to trigger off sounds in a computer . |
| 24 | The aid was approved only after prolonged controversy centring on the anti-militarist nature of Japan 's 1947 Constitution , and followed the dropping of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu 's original proposals to send Self-Defence Force ( SDF ) personnel to the Gulf [ see pp. 37758 ; 37859-60 ; 38010-11 ] . |
| 25 | At first , any hostility centred on the major new roads which would have to be ploughed across untouched farmland to carry extra traffic to the plant and the proposed hostel which threatened to inject up to 700 unmarried building workers into an isolated rural community . |
| 26 | Hincmar confirms much of what Dhuoda and Nithard say or imply about the workings of a political system centred on the court , adding details and assigning plausible motives and explanations . |
| 27 | The new story centres on the attempts of Scarlett 's grandfather , hopefully to be portrayed by Sean Connery , to get Rhett Butler and Scarlett together . |
| 28 | The third and final theme centred on the definition or , more broadly , the meaning of ‘ disability ’ . |
| 29 | Other triangular trade centred on the East Indies , where he had been associated with the interloping of Sir William Courteen [ q.v. ] against the East India Company from the late 1630s . |
| 30 | This new approach centred on the ‘ transcendental anatomy ’ of Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire . |