Example sentences of "[pron] was 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 The chief Romanesque work here is in Maastricht , which was at the centre of a prosperous region in the twelfth century .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 In the nineteen eighties it was at the centre of controvery , for putting patients into an area condemned as a human zoo .
11 Employing hundreds of people , it was at the centre of the textile trade in the Stroud valleys .
12 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 .
13 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 .
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