Example sentences of "centre a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its centre a hand-sculpted Virgin painted in blues , reds and flesh tones lifted the Christ-child heavenwards as she ascended through fragments of cloud . |
| 2 | In the city centre a variety of quality restaurants provide an excellent business lunch , tasty snack , a whole evening out , or a pre or post-theatre dinner . |
| 3 | In the centre a fountain was set up in 1797 , with a statue by F. X. Lederer , an allegory of fruit-growing and viticulture . |
| 4 | Ironically , very often it is conservation policies , successfully applied over a period of time , that have made the centre a more attractive investment to owners and increased the value of properties . |
| 5 | Depriving localities of many of their powers and discretions , encouraging through ‘ nannying ’ from the centre a dependency culture in the provinces , the national government — locked in its own record of multi-sided failure — simply maintains a self-justifying authority . |
| 6 | He notes that : ‘ the Institution was built in a Quadrangle Form , having now in the centre a large lawn or grass plot surrounded by posts and chains , and that between the Buildings and these a broad Pathway had been left , partly paved with stones … used chiefly for testing the freedom from lameness of Horses sent for examination prior to purchase ; as well as for ascertaining the progress of those under treatment in the Infirmary for lameness arising from various causes . |
| 7 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 8 | At the Jorvik Viking Centre a family of two adults and three children have to pay £11.55 . |
| 9 | At the Link Centre a four-day residential study was arranged for deafened people who were finding tinnitus a major handicap . |
| 10 | In the approximate centre a web of criss-cross lines appeared . |
| 11 | It is anticipated that with the Lord Mayor on board ‘ Lord Mayor ’ will be ceremonially pulled out of the Museum building by the winning team of a ‘ Sponsored Pull ’ to be held at the Ingrow Railway Centre a fortnight prior to this opening . |
| 12 | As part of our commitment to junior tennis , we are offering anyone who is interested in joining the Centre a voucher for £1 off the usual membership fee of £15 . |
| 13 | In another case Betty Jones who is 86 and unwell could n't cope with her senile husband of 83 , and because he could n't return home from the day centre a place had to be found for him . |
| 14 | This exhibition also demonstrates our determination to concentrate on quality , and to make this centre a more ‘ classic ’ institution than many of its counterparts . |
| 15 | The drive to Templeton , her Old Westbury , Long Island mansion , sweeps through a verdant meadow dotted with horse jumps , past an avenue of linden trees ( planted by her uncle-in-law J.S. Phipps in 1906 ) , and on towards a spectacular ‘ moon gate ’ trellisage — Mrs Guest 's own invention — which frames in its circled centre a vista of kitchen gardens , cutting gardens , flamboyant topiary , and the house itself , build of old weathered brick and weather- board in the Twenties Wiltshire Queen Anne vernacular . |
| 16 | But one may also say , from the fact that this has needed to be discussed — and from the fact that , as I say , throughout the greater part of Christendom women have not been ordained — it would be difficult to argue that the fact that this religion has had at its centre a male figure has been of little significance . |
| 17 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 18 | In the centre a huge Gorgon ( fig. 19 ) , some ten feet high , kneels or runs ; a swastika-like arrangement of the limbs , the rear knee almost on the ground , is a regular archaic formula for swift motion . |
| 19 | In the centre a dark oblong grows , distant figure radiating shadows like a child-drawn sunset . |
| 20 | In its centre a squat Breton countrywoman in white bonnet and striped blue gown planted her saboted feet on a clump of vivid grass . |
| 21 | The closeness of consumer and producer has made it easier for the Registry to expect and to receive from the Computer Centre a computing service of commercial standards , especially in terms of quality and meeting deadlines . |
| 22 | It was curiously ordered after the kitchen , with canvasses in neat stacks along the walls , and in the centre a table , clearly from its size once a billiard table , covered in piles of drawings , pots of brushes , bottles and jars and a huge battered shallow leather case , full of tubes of paint like silver fish . |
| 23 | In the centre a huge canopy shielded the place where the king and his leading nobility would sit . |
| 24 | In the centre a cruciform plinth marked the spot where a triumphal arch faced with marble had once towered above the sea to remind passing ships of the might of the Roman Empire . |
| 25 | In a Red Cross collective centre a lot of emaciated elderly people were having a soup made of nettles . |
| 26 | To facilitate the dissemination of information about the work of the Enterprise Centre a network of Enterprise Co-ordinators has been established . |
| 27 | The former is a burial mound , containing in its centre a timber chamber which proved upon examination in 1820 – 1 to be empty of the body originally placed there . |
| 28 | In the case of premises forming part of a shopping centre a similar expansion is recommended . |
| 29 | When she left the centre a good hour later it was to find dozens of people in little groups strolling around the factory floor and climbing the stairs to the jig platforms . |
| 30 | They say it 'll make the city centre a safer place . |