Example sentences of "[det] at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourteenth century Prague was very much at the centre of European affairs . |
| 2 | The ‘ Plan for Coal ’ of 1974 , very much at the centre of the case put forward by the NUM , was intended to produce over 40 million tonnes of new and modernised capacity to meet the expected increase in demand and to offset the exhaustion of old capacity . |
| 3 | Though irreconcilable , these differences are none the less very much at the centre of philosophy 's concern with the possibilities or ‘ knowing ’ . |
| 4 | Very much at the centre of it is the CPSU CC 's Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers ' Parties of Socialist Countries , founded in 1957 , and headed by Yuriy Andropov from that date until his appointment to head the KGB in 1967 . |
| 5 | You feel very much at the centre of things , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The idea , indeed , was supported more by those on the fringes of political life than by those at the centre . |
| 7 | If professorial patronage was , in general , a perquisite of those at the centre of political power in Scotland , there was another , though much less valuable , form of academic patronage available to some of the politicians . |
| 8 | This involves a move away from the traditional form of centralised bureaucratic administration and will inevitably meet with resistance from those at the centre who seek control . |
| 9 | Over the years I and my colleagues have tried to point the finger at some of those at the centre of terrorist activity on both sides of the politico-religious divide . |
| 10 | The identity of those at the centre of the row remains a closely guarded secret , but council officers are known to have spoken with management from Wiltshier Northern , the company that built the complex . |
| 11 | There is an order in these works , but it is like that at the centre of an explosion , and all over their surfaces there is a terrible indifference to everything that is sentient . |
| 12 | This shows a floral device identical to that at the centre of a reassembled pavement now displayed in Colchester Museum ( pI . |