Example sentences of "a [noun sg] centre on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another group of men received a vocabulary centred on the wavelengths at the margins of the basic colours . |
| 2 | During any trading day , the futures price can lie within a band centred on the settlement price at the close of business on the previous trading day . |
| 3 | The Theorem of Pythagoras can be applied to the rotating vector of unit length to reveal , as it describes a circle centred on the origin O that : x ² + y ² = 1² = 1 |
| 4 | They are arranged in a pattern centred on the main towns or urban areas . |
| 5 | Integrating the flux of F out through a sphere centred on the mass gives . |
| 6 | I intended to ‘ exploit ’ my popularity in my country in order to impose upon my readers a book centred on the Ashkenazi civilisation , history , language and frame of mind , all of which are virtually unknown in Italy , except by some sophisticated readers of Joseph Roth , Bellow , Singer , Malamud , Potok , and of course yourself . |
| 7 | Rothman quotes a vivid allegory of this false reasoning : the ‘ Texas sharpshooter ’ fires a shot randomly into the side of a barn , then draws a target centred on the hole . |