Example sentences of "placed at the centre [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combative ethic of politics is inappropriately placed at the centre of the governance of education , which desperately needs to be guided by the values of partnership . |
| 2 | It contains all the elements that have normally been placed at the centre of crisis theory in the Marxist tradition , i.e. the falling rate of profit , excess capital , excess commodities . |
| 3 | The Blackwell enclosed spring trolley mast was placed at the centre of the upper deck . |
| 4 | For his pains , he was treated disrespectfully by guest players and placed at the centre of the most distasteful charade ever seen on an English first-class cricket field . |
| 5 | The ‘ new consensus ’ emphasizes the importance of non-rational aspects of organizational behaviour , dimensions we have placed at the centre of our analysis of organizational transitions . |
| 6 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 7 | As tv onlookers we are placed at the centre of events no human being could ever witness in the flesh , by close-ups of a bomb's- eye view of the interior of a ventilator shaft right up to the moment of impact . |
| 8 | One could ask , therefore , what role is ascribed in Formalist theory to the author , on whom biographical criticism had been based ; what had become of the reality which mimetic and historically orientated theories had placed at the centre of their concerns ; and finally what function it gives to thought , which had been the focus of philosophically biased criticisms . |
| 9 | The ecological approach demands that the physical needs of human beings ( food , shelter , fuel , reproduction ) be placed at the centre of the archaeological quest . |
| 10 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |