Example sentences of "central [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a Saturday night recently on patrol with the police in central Cardiff and saw just how thin is the blue line which looks after law and order in the city at night . |
| 2 | The Greek government issued a temporary ban on traffic in central Athens and warned people to stay indoors after an unprecedented build-up of air pollution led to hundreds of people falling ill with respiratory and heart problems . |
| 3 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |
| 4 | The donations of Pepin ( 754 ) and Charlemagne ( 774 ) gave the popes the area of central Italy that had fallen to the Lombards , together with the former exarchate of Ravenna and the provinces of Venice and Istria . |
| 5 | The two groups drove the Phalangists out of the Kantari district of central Beirut and evicted the Maronite militias from their bunkers in the luxury hotels near the port . |
| 6 | North also told journalists on Oct. 22 that Bush , then Vice President , probably knew in outline of his activities in Central America but had no specific knowledge of the diversion of arms sales profits to the contras . |
| 7 | To facilitate this aim the Presidents had signed an Economic Action Plan for Central America and agreed that discussions should proceed on the revival of the Central American Common Market . |
| 8 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 9 | So successful were the organizers in organizing that the spontaneity of the demonstration quite drained away , and a vast crowd marched around central London and marched away again . |