Example sentences of "a [noun] centre for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colony 's German settler inhabitants had been accused of sexually abusing children , of torturing inmates and using them as slave labour , and also of acting as a torture centre for the DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup [ see also pp. 36346 ; 36932 ; 37490 ] . |
| 2 | The Gallery comprises three rooms , one of which is to be designated the ‘ Eric Jones-Evans Room ’ and which will house his Collection and provide a research centre for the study of 19th-century theatre and melodrama . |
| 3 | Another important development in my academic career in 1962–1969 was a close association with the Survey of English Usage : a research centre for the study of present-day English founded by , and attached to my Department at U.C.L. The most important part of the Survey 's work was the compilation of a large corpus of modern English texts , both spoken and written . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman should ask anybody in and around Nottingham whether they approve of the famous leaf stem statue , which costs £38,000 , the coloured blobs under one of the car parks , which cost £28,000 , or the provision of a day centre for the winos who are driving everybody mad , which cost £160,000 . |
| 5 | These two buildings were , therefore , clearly under military control , and it is most likely that they represented a collection centre for the annona militaris , a tax thought to have been introduced by Severus . |
| 6 | Following his representations the dispensary was recognized as a training centre for the diploma in dental surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 1865 . |
| 7 | People living near a former young offenders institution are fighting plans to turn it into a detention centre for the immigration service . |
| 8 | It 's planned to turn part of the site into a detention centre for the immigration service . |
| 9 | The Royal town is now a market centre for the Lleyn Peninsular and Anglesey . |