Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was at the centre , they do n't encourage you to stop smoking , stop drinking coffee , or lose weight . |
| 2 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 3 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The chief Romanesque work here is in Maastricht , which was at the centre of a prosperous region in the twelfth century . |
| 7 | There were over 32 design faults in the RBMK 1000 reactor , which was at the centre of the Chernobyl incident , according to a report by the deputy head of the Soviet state committee for atomic energy , N. A. Steinburg . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We were at the centre yesterday with Frank and Joy |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They were at the centre of things . |
| 14 | Situated between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic , and midway between the African and European continents , it was at the centre of a crucial communications crossroads . |
| 15 | Yes , there it was at the centre , just as she 'd half recalled , a small panel carved with two stars and a Centaur aiming an arrow into the night sky . |
| 16 | In the nineteen eighties it was at the centre of controvery , for putting patients into an area condemned as a human zoo . |
| 17 | Employing hundreds of people , it was at the centre of the textile trade in the Stroud valleys . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |