Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the centre " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission .
3 A junction where judgments were required was signalled by the experimenter sounding a tone when the vehicle was at the centre of the junction .
4 The bath was in the centre of the room , with an old-fashioned brass spigot .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The temple was at the centre of the city of Knossos , geographically and economically , of that there seems little doubt .
8 In the medieval/religious paradigm the clergy and the church were at the centre of life ; in the scientific/industrial paradigm the scientist and economist have replaced them .
9 The tray with its conical basket ‘ hat ’ covering the food was in the centre of our circle but no-one would consider starting until we were all together .
10 Ptolemy had written the book in AD 139 and in it propounded , among other things , the old Aristotelian idea that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe .
11 For millennia it was accepted that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe , despite all the contrary evidence , on the grounds that no other site would be fitting for the world on which the ‘ chosen ’ ( whatever their religion ) dwelt .
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