Example sentences of "[noun sg] centres on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research centres on the carreres of two outstanding civil servants : Sir Percival Waterfield and Lord ( Edward ) Bridges . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The catalogue centres on the public lectures the artist gave in his capacity of Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy between 1807 and 1837 . |
| 6 | Most of the debate centres on the X-/Y-cell distinction . |
| 7 | The debate centres on the effectiveness of these laws in emasculating unions ( via a free rider effect that allegedly makes union organization costly ) , thus eroding union wage differentials and encouraging investment . |
| 8 | My motion centres on the level of employment , because there are 2 , 700 more people in employment in Shrewsbury now than there were a decade ago . |
| 9 | The controversy centres on the extent to which a local authority can use the private law provisions of the Children Act . |
| 10 | The controversy centres on the assumptions made about two of the terms , V and Q : whether and how they are affected by changes in the money supply ( M ) . |
| 11 | Some parents feel that the problem centres on the child 's not getting to the lavatory in time ( Berg et al . |
| 12 | The saga centres on the tangled love life of a 30-year-old woman , who fears she will be left on the shelf . |
| 13 | The new story centres on the attempts of Scarlett 's grandfather , hopefully to be portrayed by Sean Connery , to get Rhett Butler and Scarlett together . |
| 14 | The story centres on the world of Cameron Colley , a hack from the P J O'Rourke school of journalism , who fills in time between big stories with a sniff of this , a swig of that , a bit of the other … |
| 15 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 16 | With almost all posts going to the present Shadows , interest centres on the choice of Lord Chancellor . |
| 17 | Infant sexuality moves into the anal phase next , and some adult sexual aims derive from this phase where interest centres on the erotogenic possibilities of the anus . |