Example sentences of "[pron] was at the centre of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The chief Romanesque work here is in Maastricht , which was at the centre of a prosperous region in the twelfth century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Situated between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic , and midway between the African and European continents , it was at the centre of a crucial communications crossroads . |
| 8 | In the nineteen eighties it was at the centre of controvery , for putting patients into an area condemned as a human zoo . |
| 9 | Employing hundreds of people , it was at the centre of the textile trade in the Stroud valleys . |
| 10 | He was at the centre of the controversy that led to the Unix Wars and the creation of the Open Software Foundation while on secondment to AT&T Co from Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 11 | 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 . |