Example sentences of "[noun sg] centring 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The aid was approved only after prolonged controversy centring on the anti-militarist nature of Japan 's 1947 Constitution , and followed the dropping of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu 's original proposals to send Self-Defence Force ( SDF ) personnel to the Gulf [ see pp. 37758 ; 37859-60 ; 38010-11 ] . |
| 5 | Although the dismissal in August 1990 of the Bhutto government by presidential decree [ see pp. 37652-53 ] did not , as expected , lead to military rule , the event was marked by controversy centring on the President 's arbitrary exercise of power [ see p. 37764 ] and on the haste with which criminal proceedings were brought against Bhutto and some of her former ministers . |
| 6 | An oil slick of approximately 300 sq km , which had moved by Jan. 2 to within 20 km of the Moroccan coast , threatened a major ecological disaster along 200 km of coastline centring on the capital , Rabat , and a number of holiday resorts and fishing ports . |
| 7 | This money would convert the small video project into an LEA INSET project in the school centring on the Humanities department . |
| 8 | The latest march came amidst renewed signs of Hindu-Moslem hostility centring on the disputed mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , where the BJP state government formally took possession of 1.12 hectares of land around the shrine on Nov. 3 [ see p. 38532 ] . |