Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the central [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The multitude then filed past the Opera House and down towards the central station .
2 Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel .
3 There is good evidence that the infall occurs right down into the central parsec , but at a much smaller rate than the overall mass inflow rate , suggesting that any accretion onto a central black hole is episodic .
4 Down into the Central Line , pick up abandoned newspapers and look for that advertisement .
5 Along with the central issue of the Watergate scandal — the cover-up — and the involvement of the President and the White House , a series of other revelations showed the Nixon administration in a most unsavoury light .
6 It allows a relatively modern driving position with straighter arms than the slightly foreshortened and big-wheeled Healey , but the stubby gear lever and handbrake lever down on the central tunnel are very similar car to car .
7 This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) .
8 Cathery also added : " Lewis and Cannon ( the branch secretary ) came down to the Central Office and I let [ them ] see all the books , cheque book , bank passbook etc. ; in fact all they wanted to see .
9 Perhaps the papers must be examined twice by two different examiners in different parts of the country ; the marks must be sent in to the central body by a certain date ; there may be not only scores of examination papers but hundreds , each of them containing the attempts of several questions .
10 er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined
11 er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined
12 He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber .
13 The canal can be readily followed from the river near Canonica d'Adda through to the Central Station where it peters out beside Via Tirano .
14 It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy .
15 Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ .
16 When I remarked on this to the doctor 's wife , she explained that the town was under virtual siege , cut off from the central government .
17 It would then whoosh straight off to the central cashiers ' office .
18 Crossroads lived on under the Central banner , but there were many more changes in store and some viewers did n't like take to those either .
19 Items of clothing dry , hanging up from the central light fitting on the ceiling .
20 Small and unceasingly chirpy , he grew up on the central coast , near Taree , one of 10 children of the manager of Burrell Creek 's post office and general store , which Johnny himself ended up managing .
21 In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state .
22 He gave a thumbs-up sign then replaced it and manoeuvred his wheelchair round behind his desk where he tapped his security code into the IBM computer linked up to the central data bank elsewhere in the building .
23 But eventually the whole of your body lands up at the central point — so everything in the end gets crushed . ’
24 These emphases were repeated by Konstantin Chernenko , particularly in his address to the commission that had been set up by the Central Committee to prepare a revised programme .
25 Spinrad says that such a huge range in velocity is quite unexpected It could be stirred up by the central jets which produce the radio emission .
26 Early in 1942 two committees were set up by the Central Housing Advisory Committee to report to the Minister of Health ( the minister responsible for housing ) on the question of post-war housing rebuilding .
27 Going to the committee meetings once a month and then keeping the new mums informed of anything going on within the Central Branch .
28 Going to the committee meetings once a month and then keeping the groups informed of anything going on within the Central Branch .
29 Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) .
30 Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ , a brief moment in his two-hour speech , was singled out as the central point of the newsreel coverage on 3 February .
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