Example sentences of "have [been] at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Crosby has been at the centre of that romance , reviving the club 's fortunes almost immediately after taking over from Denis Smith at Christmas and then inspiring the sort of Cup run last enjoyed by the passionate Roker supporters in the days of Bob Stokoe . |
| 2 | Situated close to Harrods and just a few doors along Beauchamp Place from Kanga , the dress shop owned by Prince Charles 's confidante Lady Tryon , San Lorenzo has been at the centre of much that has happened around Diana this year . |
| 3 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 4 | He has been at the centre of California politics too long to escape responsibility for the state 's deeper sicknesses . |
| 5 | Nude or clothed , the female figure has been at the centre of debates about the genius in art . |
| 6 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
| 7 | The dispute over the bird has been at the centre of a long-running debate over the fate of the US 's last remaining ancient forests , which has included acrimonious exchanges between environmentalists and the timber industry . |
| 8 | For the last three years , N C V O has been at the centre of the critical debates . |
| 9 | It is not the first time the council has been at the centre of a disagreement over charges for collection of waste . |
| 10 | The leisure centre has been at the centre of a compensation wrangle since serious building defects were discovered last year . |
| 11 | The decision ends a seven-month wait to settle the issue at the home which has been at the centre of allegations of declining standards . |
| 12 | Chalmers has been at the centre of speculation this week , one report suggesting he was leaving Melrose to join Newcastle Gosforth . |
| 13 | A MAN who has been at the centre of planning in North East Wales for more than 30 years will retire this month from public office , and turn his attention to private consultancy . |
| 14 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 15 | The problems we faced had been at the centre of passionate argument for many decades . |
| 16 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
| 17 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
| 18 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 19 | London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation . |
| 20 | Bobby Watson and Victor Lewis have been at the centre of the remarkable revival of hard bop on the world jazz stage in recent years . |
| 21 | All of them have been at the centre of proposed part-exchange deals Souness was trying to set up this season to capture Nottingham Forest midfielder Roy Keane and QPR striker Les Ferdinand . |
| 22 | Major shortcomings in company organisation and management have been at the centre of Britain 's unsatisfactory economic performance . |
| 23 | As an extremely well-equipped force , the SDK have been at the centre of political controversy in Japan because of the difficulty of assessing the basic needs of a force that is there purely to defend . |
| 24 | Ghana is fortunate in having large accessible bauxite and hydroelectric potential , both of which have been at the centre of the country 's development planning . |