Example sentences of "[det] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A sphere in this space centred on the origin and passing through the coordinate r will have an area and a circumference . |
| 4 | Much of the subsequent controversy about this analysis centred on the question of youth unemployment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Allegations this time centred on the Cork Corporation municipal dump on the Kinsale Road in Cork city . |
| 7 | Much argument centred on the proper meanings to be attached to particular words such as ‘ economic ’ and on the recent history of transport legislation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |