Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | His studio in Camden Town was the centre of both the Camden Town Group and the London Group , and he was an active member of the New English Art Club . |
| 2 | Maurice Carver was the centre of the terrorist trade . |
| 3 | As a market town Brackley was the centre of the local economy . |
| 4 | On education , a $6,200 million remedial education programme was the centre of the administration 's request . |
| 5 | Meredith Jones had worked the educational network ; Philip had engineered the ATC cadet to Oxford on another network ; Emlyn Williams was the centre of a growing Welsh network , the ‘ Tafia ’ ; Binkie Beaumont ( who had started work in a theatre in Cardiff — the Welsh connection may have helped Burton once again ) was the unlikely Godfather of the London network : Burton himself was to become a Godfather and enjoy it enormously . |
| 6 | Yet in the 1870s , Batty Green was the centre of animated activity . |
| 7 | Excavation suggest that before this , Castle Dore was the centre of a large community made wealthy by the trade in tin and iron , as well as busying themselves with agriculture . |
| 8 | There was a local market every Thursday , and , in addition , each spring and summer Monpazier was the centre for a giant mushroom fair . |
| 9 | The Ingrow Railway Centre was the centre of activity as over 1,000 each day enjoyed the heavy horses , vintage motor vehicles and free bus service to the Yorkshire Car Collection . |
| 10 | Patrick Greg Malkin was the centre of attention when Chris and his wife Christina had their first child Christened at Holy Name Church , Oxton , Birkenhead . |
| 11 | SKIPPER Mark Wright was the centre of transfer speculation last night as Liverpool flew here for their European Cup Winners ' Cup second leg tie against Apollon Limassol . |
| 12 | Grantbridge Street was the centre of bedsitterland . |
| 13 | The new Lady Deverill was the centre of a group by the fireplace , smoking her habitual cigarette and laughing at something a handsome man by her side was saying . |
| 14 | Domesday Book shows that way back in the eleventh century Pocklington was the centre of a large royal manor containing a church and three water mills and that its inhabitants included fifteen burgesses . |