Example sentences of "[noun sg] has centre on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | One method of investigating this area has centred on the time which children take to give the answer to a range of simple sums . |
| 7 | Much debate has centred on the optimum method of administration of high does of interleukin-2 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Much controversy has centred on the concept of ‘ functional importance ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A great deal of scholarly discussion has centred on the linguistic status of the word . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |