Example sentences of "[pron] be at the centre of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you , Roger , if your remarks in the Chapter House mean anything , believe I am at the centre of this darkened ring ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'm at the centre of a giant trapezoid monument to life : poised between dumb gravity and my senseless urge to struggle on . |
| 3 | I 'm at the centre of this universe as well . ’ |
| 4 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 5 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 6 | The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert . |
| 7 | The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is crucial to make a clear distinction between the type of misappropriation involved in Winans and that which was at the centre of both the Newman and Materia cases . |
| 11 | The chief Romanesque work here is in Maastricht , which was at the centre of a prosperous region in the twelfth century . |
| 12 | There were over 32 design faults in the RBMK 1000 reactor , which was at the centre of the Chernobyl incident , according to a report by the deputy head of the Soviet state committee for atomic energy , N. A. Steinburg . |
| 13 | You are at the centre of my heart . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In Funny Business it 's a clown who 's at the centre of the fun . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But Allan Lamb , who is at the centre of the ball-tampering row , has been hung out to dry by the game 's gutless rulers . |
| 19 | That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | This larger area is a circle and we are at the centre of it . |
| 22 | ‘ But I still do n't see why we 're at the centre of the Universe , ’ said Gedanken . |
| 23 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 24 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 25 | So they all think they 're at the centre of the Big Bang . ’ |
| 26 | Passages on collegiality , religious liberty and the Jews , for instance , matter greatly because they were at the centre of lengthy conciliar debate as many other passages were not . |
| 27 | They were at the centre of things . |
| 28 | Today it is at the centre of things . |
| 29 | Geographically it is at the centre of many markets and its origins as a New Town mean that there are excellent housing and recreation facilities . |
| 30 | And irrationality is , 1 would argue , more firmly at the centre of Western , Christian , culture than it is at the centre of Islam . |