Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 2 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 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 | We ought therefore , in the battle of ideas which is at the centre of the political struggle , to be confident in the strength of our intellectual case . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The organiser of a Kurdish refugee charity who 's at the centre of a fraud squad investigation is reported to be carrying out relief work in Turkey . |
| 7 | The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert . |
| 8 | In Funny Business it 's a clown who 's at the centre of the fun . |
| 9 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |