Example sentences of "[pron] is at the centre [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Today it is at the centre of things . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | And irrationality is , 1 would argue , more firmly at the centre of Western , Christian , culture than it is at the centre of Islam . |
10 | Five years after the fire , his work now nearing its end , he is at the centre of a specialist team of restorers replacing the recarving swags and pendants which had adorned the King 's Bedchamber and adjoining rooms since the time of Charles II and which now lie boxed or in pieces on shelves and benches at the South East corner of the palace . |