Example sentences of "[is] at [art] centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Funny Business it 's a clown who 's at the centre of the fun . |
| 2 | What 's at the centre of our universe ? |
| 3 | The organiser of a Kurdish refugee charity who 's at the centre of a fraud squad investigation is reported to be carrying out relief work in Turkey . |
| 4 | Five years after the fire , his work now nearing its end , he is at the centre of a specialist team of restorers replacing the recarving swags and pendants which had adorned the King 's Bedchamber and adjoining rooms since the time of Charles II and which now lie boxed or in pieces on shelves and benches at the South East corner of the palace . |
| 5 | However , Mr van Vliet is at the centre of a disagreement within CITES over how to best protect snowdrops — the genus galathus — another plant worth millions in the trade , which is being endangered by sales of wild stocks . |
| 6 | IN THE Soviet Union , poetry is at the centre of everyday life in a way that the West would find inconceivable . |
| 7 | The bank is at the centre because it is usually the only firm that does business with every other member of the group and thus also owns a small ( typically 3–5% ) shareholding in all the other members . |
| 8 | Some men from Muftah were descended from Sidi Hasan , the saint whose tomb is at the centre of the cemetery in Ajdabiya , and they might intervene to bring a quarrel to an end . |
| 9 | The Gothic style Manor House is set in the midst of 120 acres ( 50 hectares ) of gardens and parkland ; it was built in 1804 to replace a previous Jacobean residence , and is at the centre of the 3,300 acres ( 1,335 hectares ) Bradwell Grove Estate , where for many centuries farming and forestry have been practised in a way typical of life in the Cotswolds . |
| 10 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 11 | Methodologically , the ‘ chronotope ’ — the specific organization of space and time within the work or within a genre — is at the centre of Bakhtin 's tracings of the changes within genres and of the boundaries between them . |
| 12 | Toftingall is at the centre of Caithness and in times past was the meeting place for local clans , who gathered there prior to setting off south in search of revenge , plunder or just a jolly good fight . |
| 13 | Coleridge 's inkstand is at the centre of the table |
| 14 | A HOLE in the ground that would engulf St Paul 's Cathedral 30 times over is at the centre of a row over Britain 's application to join the minor league of strategic-metals producers . |
| 15 | In an article I wrote in 1970 I described the whirlpool of activity in the official curriculum : in syllabuses , in Institutes of Education , in curriculum centres , and I commented sadly that ‘ most of its impetus is at the centre , that some of it is circular , that its impetus decreases rapidly towards the perimeter and that the vast majority of primary schools lie in the stagnant water outside and are totally unaffected by its movement ’ . |
| 16 | Now , 32 years later , Ken is at the centre of a love tangle with girlfriend Maggie , her son Mark , and arch-enemy Mike Baldwin . |
| 17 | A FORMER slave who used to draw and paint on scraps of cardboard is at the centre of a multi-million pound legal battle . |
| 18 | Today it is at the centre of things . |
| 19 | PREMIER John Major is at the centre of a Cabinet battle over interest rate cuts , it was revealed last night . |
| 20 | His fearsome single knockout punch is no longer a factor and its absence is at the centre of Piper 's plans . |
| 21 | The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert . |
| 22 | STUTTGART manager Christoph Daum , the man who blundered in using four foreign players against Leeds United , is at the centre of a drugs storm in Germany . |
| 23 | TYCOON Robert Maxwell is at the centre of a ruthless new struggle — with ITV and the BBC racing to screen his life story first . |
| 24 | But Allan Lamb , who is at the centre of the ball-tampering row , has been hung out to dry by the game 's gutless rulers . |
| 25 | DON-E , British soul hopeful , is at the centre of the latest investigation into chart hyping following irregular sales patterns surrounding the singer 's recent ‘ Peace In The World ’ 45 . |
| 26 | Laurie Mains is at the centre of efforts to heal the rift between players and media . |
| 27 | Bassano is at the centre of a large and prosperous area in the Veneto with one of the highest per capita incomes in Italy and therefore in Europe . |
| 28 | Velcro , the touch fastener so beloved of outdoor skiing types and their like , is at the centre of a bitter spat between its board and disgruntled shareholders over that vexed question of shareholder value . |
| 29 | Geographically it is at the centre of many markets and its origins as a New Town mean that there are excellent housing and recreation facilities . |
| 30 | Poetry is at the centre of our learning , whether we are ( as the disc jockeys used to say ) 8 or 80 ; whether we are ‘ highly gifted ’ or ‘ disadvantaged ’ . |