Example sentences of "of the centre of " in BNC.

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1 Gullfoss — a detail of the centre of the falls
2 A few months later , as Emile de Laveleye goes on to say in this essay of 1871 , the Franco-Prussian war broke out , setting in motion the sequence of European conflicts which led , ultimately , to the obliteration of the centre of Berlin in 1945 .
3 The official also said that Britain had failed to account for its decision to move the colony 's main naval base out of the centre of Hong Kong , a move which he believed would have serious repercussions for the stationing of the Chinese military in the territory after the 1997 transfer of power .
4 Everyone on the trams and buses was carrying bales and bundles , so that the freak morning rush-hour looked like an immense double-decker funeral cortege , winding its way out of the centre of Glasgow in every direction .
5 Replace the shroud but leave the screw out of the centre of the lower panel as its locating point is now missing .
6 How many people live within one hour 's driving time of the centre of the Peak District National Park ?
7 One anxious mother , Jane Brooks , said : ‘ As people drive through and then out of the centre of Holybourne they seem to forget that speed restrictions still apply .
8 Whilst regarding as correct the shift of the centre of gravity to the production of the means of production , we must at the same time remember the danger involved in tying up too much state capital in major construction work , which can not be realised on the market for many years .
9 Came the day , and the film unit — a ponderous line of vehicles , carrying half a ton of exceedingly expensive equipment and all the people required to make it work efficiently — rumbled out of the centre of Leeds .
10 This may be achieved where cobbling makes drivers aware of the presence of pedestrians , where a tree breaks up the straight line of the centre of the road or where narrowings make drivers proceed especially slowly and carefully .
11 The tips of a swept wing are well aft of the centre of lift , and have to be negative in relation to the centre body forward of the bridle points .
12 Situated eight kilometres out of the centre of Funchal on the Camacha road , they can be reached by bus or taxi .
13 There is no English equivalent to the French basis of this concept , but broadly it denotes the fact that institutional church religion has been pushed by modernity out of the centre of social and cultural life and into its own peripheral and private sphere .
14 This takes a disjointed groove system to the right of the centre of the crag .
15 The basic pattern of the centre of The Lord of the Rings is separations and encounters and wanderings , but these are controlled first by a map ( something no Arthurian narrative possesses ) , and second by an extremely tight chronology of days and dates .
16 Indeed , even at the pressures of the centre of the Sun , where the temperature is some fifteen million degrees , the conditions are n't extreme enough .
17 , writes : AMERICAN friends saw the marker stone of the centre of England in Warwickshire and confessed they did not know U.S.A. 's centre .
18 This is an attractive listed building within easy reach of the centre of Dartmouth .
19 Easily Accessible : Fairmount House is situated away from the hustle and bustle of the centre of the popular resort of Torquay and closer to the peace of the old and pretty village of Paignton .
20 Easily Accessible : Craiglynn is situated in a quiet residential area but within a short bus ride of the centre of Aberdeen .
21 The broad movement of society and culture has tended to squeeze religion out of the centre of human concern .
22 From the junction of main roads known as the Turnpike about half a mile east of the centre of Pontypool , go 50yds along the Abergavenny road .
23 The pulsar lies within about 2.3 arcmin of the centre of the target cluster , well within the tidal radius of 9 arcmin , although it is outside the core radius of 8arcsec .
24 The density of stars within 1pc of the centre of the cluster is 10 6 M and ; pc -3 ( ref. 44 ) ; for comparison , the density of stars in the solar vicinity is 0.1 M and ; pc -3 .
25 The position of the centre of the error circle was given as , ( ) .
26 I left the motorway system east of the centre of Birmingham and , with my map of the area open beside me , headed into the grey and depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city or , rather , that lies all around the city .
27 It is , of course , celebrated for the magnificent star-clouds which indicate the direction of the centre of the Galaxy , and sweeping with binoculars over the whole region is very rewarding .
28 It is within walking distance of the centre of Riccione and the hotel facilities include a large heated swimming pool with children 's section , a gymnasium , a tennis court and a sauna .
29 The fuel gauge is the most reliable type of all ; a float in the tank supports a length of wire sticking out of the centre of the seven gallon tank 's filler cap , immediately forward of the windscreen .
30 On each left hand page , facing each of the photographs , is a street plan of the centre of Hiroshima .
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