Example sentences of "was at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 2 | What is our concern , though , is the notion of love which he saw was at the centre of understanding the work of Christ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Humiliation was at the centre of Jock Stein 's disciplinary philosophy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Higher Party School in Moscow and its rector , Vyatcheslav Shostakovsky , was at the centre of this movement . |
| 12 | ACTOR John Travolta was at the centre of a mid-air mystery last night . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ENGLAND captain Stuart Pearce was at the centre of an amazing touchline bust-up yesterday with Spurs substitute Gudni Bergsson . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The uprising was put down by the action of the police and the army , and an unknown number of people were killed , among them Muhammadu Marwa Maitatsine , leader of the fanatical sect which was at the centre of the trouble . |
| 17 | VINNIE JONES was at the centre of another row just four days after his record £20,000 fine by the FA . |
| 18 | COVENTRY CITY managing director George Curtis was at the centre of a boardroom bust-up yesterday over his ‘ staggering ’ £163,000 annual income . |
| 19 | Keegan was at the centre of the brawl , trying to prevent Ascoli coach Massimo Cacciatori from reaching Kelly . |
| 20 | For millennia it was accepted that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe , despite all the contrary evidence , on the grounds that no other site would be fitting for the world on which the ‘ chosen ’ ( whatever their religion ) dwelt . |
| 21 | A REFUGEE family who fled to Britain from war-torn Yugoslavia was at the centre of a housing storm yesterday . |
| 22 | PRINCESS Diana was at the centre of a mystery last night after a US paper claimed she had been recorded chatting to a man declaring his love for her . |
| 23 | JAMES Gilbey , the man who was taped telling Princess Diana he loved her , was at the centre of a new mystery yesterday . |
| 24 | When I was at the centre , they do n't encourage you to stop smoking , stop drinking coffee , or lose weight . |
| 25 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |
| 26 | The archaeological evidence is necessarily very incomplete , but it suggests that the temple was at the centre of a town whose built-up area was approximately 1,200 metres from north to south and 800 metres from east to west . |
| 27 | The temple was at the centre of the city of Knossos , geographically and economically , of that there seems little doubt . |
| 28 | Perhaps even that future may be judged providential , but in such a story Vatican II will appear as the final occasion when Christianity was at the centre of significance for human and religious history , and John Paul II will be judged not the healer of a divided Church , but the gravedigger of Pope John 's aggiornamento . |
| 29 | He was at the centre of the controversy that led to the Unix Wars and the creation of the Open Software Foundation while on secondment to AT&T Co from Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 30 | It is crucial to make a clear distinction between the type of misappropriation involved in Winans and that which was at the centre of both the Newman and Materia cases . |