Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] the centre of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |
| 2 | Not less important , Kunaev was at the centre of an elaborate network of patronage and corruption which was clearly threatened by the imposition of an ethnic and political outsider . |
| 3 | ACTOR John Travolta was at the centre of a mid-air mystery last night . |
| 4 | NICK FALDO was at the centre of a heated row as he surrendered the lead in the $1.65 million Sun City Challenge in South Africa yesterday . |
| 5 | Humiliation was at the centre of Jock Stein 's disciplinary philosophy . |
| 6 | Cycling was at the centre of a number of social panics . |
| 7 | A junction where judgments were required was signalled by the experimenter sounding a tone when the vehicle was at the centre of the junction . |
| 8 | COVENTRY CITY managing director George Curtis was at the centre of a boardroom bust-up yesterday over his ‘ staggering ’ £163,000 annual income . |
| 9 | Secondly , local accountability was at the centre of the arguments put forward for the community charge ( or poll tax ) and other reforms in local taxation . |
| 10 | The privatization of up to 40 state-owned companies was at the centre of the governments economic recovery plan . |
| 11 | The concept of flexibility was at the centre of debates surrounding economic restructuring throughout the 1980s . |
| 12 | The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 13 | The issue was at the centre of the talks between the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , and Badran during Hurd 's visit to Jordan on May 30-31 , 1990 . |
| 14 | DIEGO Maradona was at the centre of an incident which provoked a mass brawl between Cadiz and Sevilla players in a Spanish league match yesterday . |
| 15 | Everybody 's attention was on the centre of the room , where the IMC logo had been replaced with a densely written virtual document . |
| 16 | LABOUR MP Glenda Jackson was at the centre of a political row last night after it was discovered that forged proxy votes were used in her constituency during the General Election . |
| 17 | The duty officer at the Cabinet Office Briefing Room was at the centre of a web of information technology . |
| 18 | Although the economy was at the centre of people 's concern in these elections , Keating spiced up his campaign by announcing his plan to abolish the Queen as head of state by the year 2001 — the centenary of Australia 's conversion from a group of colonies to a federation of states — and turn the country into a federal republic . |
| 19 | The bath was in the centre of the room , with an old-fashioned brass spigot . |
| 20 | Lowell 's behaviour — at times almost paranoid — was beginning to have a pattern , and the photograph of the other woman was at the centre of it . |
| 21 | Mr McDaid was at the centre of another controversy in November 1991 when he was appointed Minister of Defence by the then Taoiseach , Charles Haughey . |
| 22 | A REFUGEE family who fled to Britain from war-torn Yugoslavia was at the centre of a housing storm yesterday . |
| 23 | The archaeological evidence is necessarily very incomplete , but it suggests that the temple was at the centre of a town whose built-up area was approximately 1,200 metres from north to south and 800 metres from east to west . |
| 24 | The temple was at the centre of the city of Knossos , geographically and economically , of that there seems little doubt . |
| 25 | And by the end of 1989 the accountant 's daughter was at the centre of one of the most efficient management machines the entertainment world has yet seen , merciless marketing wringing seemingly every dollar , Deutschmark , pound and yen out of her global popularity . |
| 26 | The Press Complaints Commission is to rule on a complaint from the parents of eight-year-old Jennifer Bennett about their treatment by the media after their daughter was at the centre of the row over Labour 's pre-election health broadcast . |
| 27 | Keegan was at the centre of the brawl , trying to prevent Ascoli coach Massimo Cacciatori from reaching Kelly . |
| 28 | Rosie Johnston was at the centre of the scandal which resulted in Olivia 's death six years ago . |
| 29 | VINNIE JONES was at the centre of another row just four days after his record £20,000 fine by the FA . |
| 30 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |