Example sentences of "[was/were] at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central events of the Lord 's life had always been the pivots of the Christian year and the week ; the day of the Resurrection and Sunday , the Lord 's day , were at the centre of a cycle of festivals . |
| 2 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 3 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 4 | Rhodes and her baby were at the centre of a nationwide hunt last month when they went missing . |
| 5 | The Daily Mirror revealed three years ago that four judges were at the centre of gay rumours . |
| 6 | The Plowden Report had stressed that children ‘ were at the centre of the education process ’ , but what did this mean ? |
| 7 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 8 | Passages on collegiality , religious liberty and the Jews , for instance , matter greatly because they were at the centre of lengthy conciliar debate as many other passages were not . |
| 9 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 10 | The Oak Naiads were at the centre of the group , with the Elms in attendance . |
| 11 | In the medieval/religious paradigm the clergy and the church were at the centre of life ; in the scientific/industrial paradigm the scientist and economist have replaced them . |
| 12 | They were at the centre of things . |
| 13 | The docks of Cardiff were at the centre of the coal-based prosperity of south Wales . |
| 14 | FOUR men were at the centre of a dramatic sea rescue near Carrickfergus early today , after their motorboat struck a rock and began to sink . |
| 15 | We were at the centre yesterday with Frank and Joy |
| 16 | The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 17 | What is our concern , though , is the notion of love which he saw was at the centre of understanding the work of Christ . |
| 18 | And by the end of 1989 the accountant 's daughter was at the centre of one of the most efficient management machines the entertainment world has yet seen , merciless marketing wringing seemingly every dollar , Deutschmark , pound and yen out of her global popularity . |
| 19 | The Press Complaints Commission is to rule on a complaint from the parents of eight-year-old Jennifer Bennett about their treatment by the media after their daughter was at the centre of the row over Labour 's pre-election health broadcast . |
| 20 | Recently , the Treuhandanstalt , the government department responsible for selling off East German industry , was at the centre of a scandal as its officials were found to have been pocketing the proceeds . |
| 21 | The palazzo therefore represents the height of architectural fashion for the mid-seventeenth-century , and was at the centre of the post-plague reawakening of city life . |
| 22 | Humiliation was at the centre of Jock Stein 's disciplinary philosophy . |
| 23 | Secondly , local accountability was at the centre of the arguments put forward for the community charge ( or poll tax ) and other reforms in local taxation . |
| 24 | Ptolemy had written the book in AD 139 and in it propounded , among other things , the old Aristotelian idea that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe . |
| 25 | Cardinal Basis Hume told SVP members that their work with the old , sick , bereaved , lonely and the poor was at the centre of the mission of the church ; by showing the face of Christ to those with needs , they were bringing Gospel values to the community . |
| 26 | The Higher Party School in Moscow and its rector , Vyatcheslav Shostakovsky , was at the centre of this movement . |
| 27 | ACTOR John Travolta was at the centre of a mid-air mystery last night . |
| 28 | LABOUR MP Glenda Jackson was at the centre of a political row last night after it was discovered that forged proxy votes were used in her constituency during the General Election . |
| 29 | ENGLAND captain Stuart Pearce was at the centre of an amazing touchline bust-up yesterday with Spurs substitute Gudni Bergsson . |
| 30 | NICK FALDO was at the centre of a heated row as he surrendered the lead in the $1.65 million Sun City Challenge in South Africa yesterday . |