Example sentences of "been [prep] [art] centre " in BNC.
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1 | If the well had been in the centre of an ash grove ever since it was discovered , it is no wonder that it was deemed sacred , for ash was holy to the ancients . |
2 | Knowing that the crew must all have been in the centre of the fuselage at crash stations , we also knew they must all be dead . |
3 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
4 | Fenella had been standing towards the back of the Robe-room , half hidden by the racks of shimmering robes , but Caspar had been in the centre of the room , midway between two of the racks . |
5 | You 've been in the centre of things . |
6 | They wo n't give me a minute 's peace tomorrow now that you 've been to the centre . ’ |
7 | She says : ‘ I had been to the centre — which is really relaxed and informal . |
8 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
9 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
10 | Mr Crosby has been at the centre of that romance , reviving the club 's fortunes almost immediately after taking over from Denis Smith at Christmas and then inspiring the sort of Cup run last enjoyed by the passionate Roker supporters in the days of Bob Stokoe . |
11 | London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation . |
12 | Bobby Watson and Victor Lewis have been at the centre of the remarkable revival of hard bop on the world jazz stage in recent years . |
13 | Situated close to Harrods and just a few doors along Beauchamp Place from Kanga , the dress shop owned by Prince Charles 's confidante Lady Tryon , San Lorenzo has been at the centre of much that has happened around Diana this year . |
14 | All of them have been at the centre of proposed part-exchange deals Souness was trying to set up this season to capture Nottingham Forest midfielder Roy Keane and QPR striker Les Ferdinand . |
15 | The problems we faced had been at the centre of passionate argument for many decades . |
16 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
17 | The building — called the Old Manor House — was allegedly the scene of a naked ‘ wedding ceremony ’ and Miss Dale has also been at the centre of a storm surrounding payments of £4,000 made by the Treasury to help fund Chancellor Norman Lamont 's legal expenses to get her out of his London house . |
18 | Major shortcomings in company organisation and management have been at the centre of Britain 's unsatisfactory economic performance . |
19 | He has been at the centre of California politics too long to escape responsibility for the state 's deeper sicknesses . |
20 | As an extremely well-equipped force , the SDK have been at the centre of political controversy in Japan because of the difficulty of assessing the basic needs of a force that is there purely to defend . |
21 | Nude or clothed , the female figure has been at the centre of debates about the genius in art . |
22 | However , recreational provision in the field of art and design education is exceptional in that it normally caters for some 80,000 students , many times more than those on courses leading to qualifications , and has always been at the centre of adult education . |
23 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
24 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
25 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
26 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
27 | Ghana is fortunate in having large accessible bauxite and hydroelectric potential , both of which have been at the centre of the country 's development planning . |
28 | The dispute over the bird has been at the centre of a long-running debate over the fate of the US 's last remaining ancient forests , which has included acrimonious exchanges between environmentalists and the timber industry . |
29 | For the last three years , N C V O has been at the centre of the critical debates . |
30 | It is not the first time the council has been at the centre of a disagreement over charges for collection of waste . |