Example sentences of "[noun sg] centre on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time there had been allegations in the foreign media of a power struggle centring on the issue of introducing political reforms between Alia and Hoxha 's widow Nexhmije Hoxha , who was chair of the Democratic Front ( an umbrella organization dominated by the ruling Party of Labour — APL ) and who reputedly wielded great influence in the APL central committee . |
| 2 | Soon he was picking up speed as his confidence increased and , cruising at a steady 80 m.p.h. , his whole mind centred on the one burning goal of reaching the sanctuary of the distant Bethlehem House . |
| 3 | Fighting centred on the main barracks , the Balboa port section of Panama City , close to the main bridge leading over the canal , and in the old part of the capital , which is a maze of slums and anti-military feeling . |
| 4 | The fighting centred on the Gojam and Gondar regions as rebel forces moved southwards towards the capital . |
| 5 | Mr Bond 's business rise would not have been possible without the return of laissez-faire ; the emergence of deregulation ; the ascent of the mega-merger and the credit boom centred on the Anglo economies of Australia , the United States and Britain . |
| 6 | This study centred on the group nature and aspects of football support and of delinquency at football matches . |
| 7 | The research centres on the carreres of two outstanding civil servants : Sir Percival Waterfield and Lord ( Edward ) Bridges . |
| 8 | Much of the work centred on the complex biology of the malaria parasite and on improvements in the methods of testing potential antimalarial drugs . |
| 9 | The swoops followed four months of intense undercover work centred on the Scotland Road area . |
| 10 | Until recently , the crucial question centred on the role schools played in determining which children rise socially ( Anthony Heath and John Ridge , ‘ Schools , examinations and occupational attainment ’ , reprinted in Achievement and Inequality in Education , ed . |
| 11 | Another group of men received a vocabulary centred on the wavelengths at the margins of the basic colours . |
| 12 | Much controversy surrounded the finalization of this part of the Act centred on the question whether all 3–5 year olds should become entitled to a place in a nursery or pre-school . |
| 13 | The plan centres on the so-called insulae ( the natural islands of which the whole of Venice is made up ) and involves raising the ground level in certain places to a height that will prevent the less severe but more frequent flooding . |
| 14 | The plan centres on the Galleria dell'Accademia , but also includes the city 's eleven most interesting churches , namely the Frari , with its Titian masterpieces , and the church and adjoining Scuola of San Rocco , which houses the most important cycle of paintings by Tintoretto . |
| 15 | The crisis centring on the detention of UN inspectors had been preceded by mounting tension over Iraq 's refusal to authorize the use of UN helicopters by weapons inspection teams . |
| 16 | During 1990 the UNHCR failed to resolve its grave financial problems and suffered a major organizational crisis centred on the appointment of a new High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 17 | The Theorem of Pythagoras can be applied to the rotating vector of unit length to reveal , as it describes a circle centred on the origin O that : x ² + y ² = 1² = 1 |
| 18 | Arthur Munby 's diaries from the 1850s through to the 1870s , point to further examples of middle-class male desire centred on the physical coarseness of working women . |
| 19 | Currie was a small community centred on the town farms . |
| 20 | The third and final theme centred on the definition or , more broadly , the meaning of ‘ disability ’ . |
| 21 | During any trading day , the futures price can lie within a band centred on the settlement price at the close of business on the previous trading day . |
| 22 | A second trial of 24 people , accused of working for an allegedly pro-Iraqi newspaper , al-Nidaa , was adjourned on May 21 amid widespread international criticism centring on the conduct of the trials . |
| 23 | The feud centred on the issue of ‘ additionality ’ . |
| 24 | The reasoning offered by the court centred on the fact that such persons had special access to inside information which arose from communications they had received from primary insiders . |
| 25 | At the end of 1946 and beginning of 1947 speculation centred on the prospects of a south Korea split by bitter political and social tensions . |
| 26 | Further speculation centred on the financial state of the main Maxwell companies . |
| 27 | I have just indicated one way in which criticism centred on the theory dependence of observation can be to some extent evaded by the inductivists , and I am convinced that they will be able to think of further ingenious defences . |
| 28 | Although much of this criticism centres on the misuse of his work by others , some more substantive arguments are that middle-class values inform his conceptual distinctions and that these are insufficiently grounded in the raw data of speech patterns . |
| 29 | It is interesting to note that the debate centred on the concrete social consequences of divorce legislation rather than on its intrinsic morality . |
| 30 | In both instances the debate centred on the inviolability of the principle of parliamentary immunity rather than on Le Pen 's comments which met with widespread condemnation . |