Example sentences of "[pron] [be] at the centre " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And you , Roger , if your remarks in the Chapter House mean anything , believe I am at the centre of this darkened ring ? ’
2 I 'm at the centre of a giant trapezoid monument to life : poised between dumb gravity and my senseless urge to struggle on .
3 I 'm at the centre of this universe as well . ’
4 When I was at the centre , they do n't encourage you to stop smoking , stop drinking coffee , or lose weight .
5 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 .
6 Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system .
7 The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert .
8 The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography .
9 We ought therefore , in the battle of ideas which is at the centre of the political struggle , to be confident in the strength of our intellectual case .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The chief Romanesque work here is in Maastricht , which was at the centre of a prosperous region in the twelfth century .
13 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 .
14 You are at the centre of my heart .
15 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 .
16 In Funny Business it 's a clown who 's at the centre of the fun .
17 The organiser of a Kurdish refugee charity who 's at the centre of a fraud squad investigation is reported to be carrying out relief work in Turkey .
18 The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story .
19 But Allan Lamb , who is at the centre of the ball-tampering row , has been hung out to dry by the game 's gutless rulers .
20 That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children .
21 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 . ’
22 This larger area is a circle and we are at the centre of it .
23 ‘ But I still do n't see why we 're at the centre of the Universe , ’ said Gedanken .
24 For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't
25 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 .
26 We were at the centre yesterday with Frank and Joy
27 So they all think they 're at the centre of the Big Bang . ’
28 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 .
29 They were at the centre of things .
30 Today it is at the centre of things .
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