Example sentences of "centred around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work in the school this term is centred around the theme of the ‘ Natural World ’ and ‘ Living Things ’ . |
| 2 | Police activity centred around the offence and the apprehension of a perpetrator . |
| 3 | Yet , in the hidden away little resort of Portals Nous , there is an oasis of calm , tranquillity and romance , centred around the Hotel Portals . |
| 4 | Come evening and Kos comes alive with the action centred around the ‘ Street of Much Music ’ where bars and restaurants stand shoulder to shoulder broadcasting pop and rock , across the ruins opposite , loud into the night . |
| 5 | Centred around the work of an Irishman living in Trieste , Zurich and Paris , modernist fiction — though strongly an anglophone phenomenon — had relatively few significant practitioners of British nationality and domicile , apart from Virginia Woolf . |
| 6 | The fact that he lived with someone who slept by day , and the fact that his own life , centred around The Bar , was more or less nocturnal , made it seem quite normal to Boy to always consider the life of the city around him from the perspective of the night . |
| 7 | Any substantive disagreement centred around the issue of what role social deprivation and unemployment had in bringing young people to protest violently on the streets . |
| 8 | This book documents the participation of women in a struggle centred around the concerns of rural India . |
| 9 | Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance have centred around the concept of labelling , with the term labelling theory sometimes used to refer to the Interactionist perspective on rule-breaking . |
| 10 | Testing of knowledge gained can be centred around the ward learning objectives . |
| 11 | Learning should be centred around the total care of a group of patients . |
| 12 | Green was not satisfied with his output , and after completing the Guide Books he intended to publish a series of studies on the neighbourhood of Kendal , centred around the Castle . |
| 13 | Apart from hay-making , the other important events in Baldersdale , or any other farming dale , centred around the animals , and we kept the usual selection . |
| 14 | Occasionally , knowing that all but two fieldsmen must patrol the area within the 30-yard circle centred around the stumps at each end , they chip the ball over their heads into the ‘ no-mans 's land ’ beyond them . |
| 15 | Conversations in stall rooms frequently centred around the pressures of waiting lists , the burden of heavy caseloads , the ‘ hopeless cases , , the lack of appreciation from management , the absence of support and the inevitability of working countless hours of unpaid overtime , at the expense of our personal lives . |
| 16 | The traditional village was centred around the church with its white walls and red or grey stonework . |
| 17 | After-dinner entertainment is still largely centred around the hotels . |
| 18 | There is also a strong nucleus of contemporary artists centred around the Art College of Madeira ( Instituto Superior de Artes Plasticas da Madeira — ISAPM ) which has students from Madeira and Portugal taking courses in art , sculpture , graphics and visual art . |
| 19 | A second area of concern about the effects of new technology has been centred around the question of what changes are likely to come about in the nature of those jobs that are left . |
| 20 | AY 's defence centred around the claim that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar , as its auditor , and not to WG , even though it also audited the WG group accounts . |
| 21 | Mother Clare 's idea of covering obligations centred around the kitchen . |
| 22 | Formal and informal groups of mothers centred around the welfare of children . |
| 23 | Planning had always been centred around the acquisition of a suitable building elsewhere , followed by its removal and re-erection . |
| 24 | December 4 : 50th anniversary of the start of Operation Crossbow will be commemorated with a special display centred around the V-1 flying-bomb . |
| 25 | Major area of the damage to the aircraft was centred around the propellers and undersides of the aircraft . |
| 26 | For McGregor , as for Pym , the major changes centred around the family system which prescribed the conditions for sexual relationships , changes which resulted in loosened bonds of matrimony , increased choice and reduced frustration and suffering . |
| 27 | Much of the concern expressed prior to the passing of the 1967 Act centred around the supposed vulnerability of children , and this has made the possibility of a lowering of the age of consent a remote one . |
| 28 | Recently , there has been a flood of scholarly publications on the gardens , ( centred around the 1989 conference on the theme financed by the Cassa di Risparmio of Florence ) . |
| 29 | Particular problems are centred around the time available for consultations and the workings of the appointment system . |
| 30 | The main recommendations of the Bains Committee centred around the respective responsibilities of members and officers . |