Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] centre " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The angle subtended by a side at the centre of the circumscribing sphere is 41° 52′ . |
| 2 | This contains points representing all occupied states from zero momentum at the centre of the sphere up to some maximum value equivalent to the radius and corresponding to the co-called ‘ Fermi energy ’ . |
| 3 | On this day : Saladin entered Jerusalem , 1187 ; the Duke of York captured Alkmaar in the Netherlands , 1799 ; Rome became the capital city of Italy , 1870 ; Brigham Young , Mormon leader , was arrested for bigamy , 1871 ; the first Royal Naval submarine was launched at Barrow , 1901 ; the first rugby football match was played at Twickenham , 1909 ; Italy invaded Ethiopia , 1935 ; the liner Empress of Britain , bound for Canada with refugees , was sunk , 1940 ; the British Council received a Royal Charter , 1940 ; 338 people died when the Queen Mary liner collided with the British cruiser Curacao , which sank off the coast of Donegal , 1942 ; a new island , with a volcano at the centre , appeared off Fayal Island , Azores 1957 ; Guinea became an independent republic , 1958 ; the first London performance of the musical show Promises , Promises was presented , 1968 . |
| 4 | This was the first time a company had been invited to give a product demonstration at the centre and were keen to present the merits of their product . |
| 5 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 6 | A brilliant climber , Derbyshire-born Mick was head of the rock climbing department at the centre . |
| 7 | This study of the Treasury as the department at the centre of management in British government has two main aims . |
| 8 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 9 | Space-time is remarkably rigid , so that the amplitude of the strain is only 10 18 when the pulse from a supernova collapse at the centre of the Galaxy reaches the Earth . |
| 10 | TWO staff were suspended yesterday from their jobs at the Thresher off-licence at the centre of the Norman Lamont credit card controversy . |
| 11 | The study is linked with research at the Centre for Population Studies . |
| 12 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 13 | The Bitter Cry of Outcast London , written in 1883 by Andrew Mearns , Congregationalist minister in Chelsea , exposed a vast mass of moral corruption and absolute godlessness at the centre of the greatest metropolis in the world . |
| 14 | The back has deep , '50s-style chest-contouring , and the whole body is finished in a delicately-sprayed sunburst that darkens from a deep yellow at the centre to a medium orange at the edges . |
| 15 | It 's a very depressing conclusion that elected people , Cabinet , Prime Minister , can not prevail against an ancient British institution at the centre of events in Whitehall … |
| 16 | SPEND ANYTHING FROM ONE HOUR TO ALL DAY EXPLORING THE AMAZING WORLD OF GREEN LIVING AT THE CENTRE FOR ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY ALL KINDS OF FASCINATING EXHIBITS AND ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY BUILDINGS |
| 17 | Katherine Colgrave from Kidlington in Oxforshire walked into court with her mother : the hip deformity at the centre of the case causing her to limp . |
| 18 | Forty Minutes is following six patients during their two-day crash course in self-healing at the centre and during the nine months after ward . |
| 19 | It had a shallow-pitched roof , with a blue light at the centre . |
| 20 | Her initial instinct was to hit out at him in violent retaliation , the insults unendurable and unanswerable in any other way , and yet at the same time , some still , small place of recognition at the centre of all that red-hot emotion was acknowledging the kernel of truth hidden within the offensive words . |
| 21 | Apollinaire felt that he had achieved simultaneity in his poèmes conversations , where ‘ the poet at the centre of life records somehow the lyricism around him ’ . |
| 22 | Its main dimensions are a 10ft wheel base , 5ft 6 ins width at the centre , 16ft 6ins length of body , 17ft 11ins long over headstocks , 21ft 9ins long over the buffers , and overall height from rail level , 11ft . |
| 23 | Although not unaware of the benefits in increased production which the new agrochemicals had allowed , she drew attention , in a passionate book , to the long-term dangers : With words like these Rachel Carson placed farming practice at the centre of what was to be an often rancorous controversy about the compatibility of efficient , profitable and cheap food production with the ecological balance of the countryside . |
| 24 | Not only the glittering figure at the centre of it all , but also her mother and the king of France had , it seemed , every cause for jubilation as well , no doubt , as relief . |
| 25 | ‘ De Craon is there , ’ Selkirk rasped and pointed to a figure at the centre of the galley just between the two masts . |
| 26 | In its ‘ strong ’ form , this emergent cosmology of biographical medicine places the patient and his biography at the centre of ‘ the medical gaze ’ and relegates hospital medicine to a purely technical role ; in its weaker form , the two cosmologies are different , but equal . |
| 27 | Her trembling body was curving and lifting itself to the hardness of his in obedience to the quickening in her loins , a fierily hollow quivering , the force at the centre of a storm of sensation . |
| 28 | When a drifting particle of food touches an arm , tube feet fasten on to it and pass it on from one to another until it reaches the gutter that runs down the upper surface of the arm to the mouth at the centre . |
| 29 | Another borrowing from mainstream is the courtroom scene at the centre of the film , which is carried by a virtuoso cameo from Marlon Brando as a wheezy , old and vastly corpulent liberal lawyer . |
| 30 | His calculations , putting the Sun at the centre of a solar system in which the Earth was one of six planets , reduced the number of circles required to 31 . |