Example sentences of "[noun sg] centred on the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The fighting centred on the Gojam and Gondar regions as rebel forces moved southwards towards the capital .
4 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 .
5 This study centred on the group nature and aspects of football support and of delinquency at football matches .
6 Much of the work centred on the complex biology of the malaria parasite and on improvements in the methods of testing potential antimalarial drugs .
7 The swoops followed four months of intense undercover work centred on the Scotland Road area .
8 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 .
9 Another group of men received a vocabulary centred on the wavelengths at the margins of the basic colours .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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
13 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 .
14 Currie was a small community centred on the town farms .
15 The third and final theme centred on the definition or , more broadly , the meaning of ‘ disability ’ .
16 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 .
17 The feud centred on the issue of ‘ additionality ’ .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Further speculation centred on the financial state of the main Maxwell companies .
21 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 .
22 It is interesting to note that the debate centred on the concrete social consequences of divorce legislation rather than on its intrinsic morality .
23 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 .
24 BRITAIN 'S debate on entering the exchange rate mechanism centred on the problems of tracking the German mark .
25 They are arranged in a pattern centred on the main towns or urban areas .
26 By contrast , the number density of the ions and electrons falls in proportion to the square of the distance from the Sun , because roughly the same number of ions ( and electrons ) is being spread over a growing spherical area centred on the Sun .
27 Government policy centred on the question of integration through schooling in the values of the Republic rather than on multicultural education .
28 Other triangular trade centred on the East Indies , where he had been associated with the interloping of Sir William Courteen [ q.v. ] against the East India Company from the late 1630s .
29 The first argument centred on the producer 's plan to sample Charman 's kit , a process where pads are used to trigger off sounds in a computer .
30 Much argument centred on the proper meanings to be attached to particular words such as ‘ economic ’ and on the recent history of transport legislation .
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