Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] centre on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposals to limit the sovereignty of parliament tend to centre on the introduction of a written constitution with judicial review and the entrenchment of a Bill of Rights as some kind of " higher " law beyond easy parliamentary repeal . |
| 2 | What is beyond doubt is that just as much as the nuclear scientists have tried to point to a superficially clean industrial process , symbolized by the white Windscale coats , so the public 's fear has centred on the insidious threat of its invisible touch . |
| 3 | Whereas in the earlier revolt fighting had centred on the northern parts of the duchy , Poitou and the Saintonge , in 1 176 it was focused further south and east , in the Angoumois and the Limousin . |
| 4 | Decision-making tended to centre on the issuing of directives and instructions . |
| 5 | One of the polarisations which took place has centred on the question of whether management development should be focused on the provision of specific tools/skills for managers ( a competency model ? ) — or whether it would be more appropriate to set out along a more generic path which emphasised the attitudinal and interpersonal aspects of management . |
| 6 | According to reports , the investigation has centred on the activities of the cult at an address in north London and more recently at a manor house at Lutterworth , Leics . |
| 7 | Instead , attention has centred on the poor performance of the 851 Flexible buses that Grumman sold to New York 's Metropolitan Transport Authority in 1980 . |
| 8 | West German attention remained centred on the affairs of Central Europe — nor had the Germans either completely liberated themselves from or lived down their own past . |
| 9 | Much of the critical attention paid to its implications for special education has centred on the procedures by which children can be excluded from the ‘ common entitlement ’ through the disapplications and modifications permitted by the Act ( Norwich 1989 , Tomlinson 1990 ) . |
| 10 | One method of investigating this area has centred on the time which children take to give the answer to a range of simple sums . |
| 11 | Much debate has centred on the optimum method of administration of high does of interleukin-2 . |
| 12 | This debate has centred on the two views of bureaucracy found in the writings of Marx himself , one presenting it as an instrument by which the dominant class protects its interests , the other as an instrument of power through which the state is able to rise above and regulate class conflict with a measure of autonomy from the dominant class . |
| 13 | The chief executive of Medway Ports , Peter Vincent , said yesterday the area involved centred on the open sea wall used by Royal Fleet Auxiliary tankers , and not the adjacent nuclear submarine refitting facility . |
| 14 | The success of ‘ Darwinism ’ shows that the majority of biologists recognized this point , and the only significant area of debate remaining centred on the problem of heredity . |
| 15 | The most contentious debate had centred on the issue of religious education . |
| 16 | One problem during the tour had centred on the young fast bowler Roy Gilchrist , who had been sent home from India for disciplinary reasons ; after the tour , opinion was divided as to whether his misdemeanours should mean the end of his Test career or whether he should be helped back into the fold by someone such as Worrell , whom he worshipped . |
| 17 | Much controversy has centred on the concept of ‘ functional importance ’ . |
| 18 | This year the excitement has centred on the 23.7 per cent shareholding which Elders , the Australian group , has to cut to 9.9 per cent . |
| 19 | Much of the recent discussion about soil structure has centred on the decline of its organic matter content , particularly in the arable areas , following the decline of outdoor grazing and mixed farming patterns , the replacement of animal manure by artificial fertilizer and the use of heavy machinery to apply it . |
| 20 | A great deal of scholarly discussion has centred on the linguistic status of the word . |
| 21 | The discussion has centred on the two-phase hybrid motor , but electromagnetic damping can be produced in all types of motor provided more than one phase is excited when the rotor is settling to the equilibrium position . |
| 22 | Most activity seems to centre on the exhibition space , the Palais de Festival , where on six floors exhibitors display their goods . |
| 23 | Recent production has centred on the Pennine orefields and on vein deposits at Strontian , Highland Region , and in the Nethan Valley , Strathclyde Region of Scotland . |
| 24 | Interest has centred on the role of two small groups of cells , one on either side of the brain , that are called the suprachiasmatic nuclei ( SCN ) . |
| 25 | Most of the evidence about whether industrialism raised or diminished the living standards of the working class has centred on the wages and prices prevalent at different periods , data which is patchy and hard to interpret . |