Example sentences of "towards the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long-lasting flowers appear in spring , their green-tinged , white petals gradually shading th bright yellow towards the centre . |
| 2 | fit small shelves above radiators ; they will deflect the rising warm air towards the centre of the room . |
| 3 | Mr Cook also countered the argument that PR would build in a pull towards the centre ground , preventing Labour from implementing a radical programme . |
| 4 | It was against this backdrop that the individualist liberal economics of Spencer , Dicey , the LPDL , and the BCA moved towards the centre of the Conservative Party 's thinking , as economic liberalism and the minimal state became attractive in terms of consolidating a coalition against a Labour party presented as high taxers and high spenders . |
| 5 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 6 | A surrounding commercial crop where the farmer used a comparatively high sowing rate has less and less podding towards the centre of the field , he points out . |
| 7 | Around the perimeter , men with shot-guns advanced towards the centre . |
| 8 | Towards the centre of that area were roses and rhododendrons that had been left to grow like weeds , and a willow tree whose branches reached right to the ground to create a shady den around its trunk . |
| 9 | Take the frozen water bottle , remove the lid , invert and rest on the compost towards the centre of the plants . |
| 10 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 11 | As Ladislav has a mild heart condition , we dawdled towards the Centre in the morning sunlight . |
| 12 | Essentially , two parallel trenches are made and the turf is folded over towards the centre . |
| 13 | I am careful to have my desk angled towards the centre of the room so that I can not see the view from the window across the park towards the lake and the western curve of the South Downs . |
| 14 | Then there was the steady encroachment of reed and sedge , alder and willow , from the edges , slowly laying down peat and squeezing the lake smaller and smaller towards the centre of the basin . |
| 15 | The third turning starts in the resulting gap in mid-field and turns the whole field towards the centre , and so on . |
| 16 | Male and female nuclei enlarge and move towards the centre of the ovum . |
| 17 | The higher values have been pulled down towards the centre of the batch , bringing Kuwait and Sweden into the main body of the data , and the bottom of the scale has been stretched out correspondingly . |
| 18 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 19 | The roof of the carriage projects six inches over the body , and rises in the form of a dome towards the centre , where a ventilating apparatus is fixed , surmounted by a colossal gilt crown , which gives a striking finish to the exterior design . |
| 20 | In descending order of deposition ( i.e. , from the outside towards the centre ) the succession is as follows : |
| 21 | The fields near the margins of the swamp area were probably kept drained by the building of a network of canals : those towards the centre may have been built up above flood level with muck transferred from the canal bottoms . |
| 22 | The emerging workings were rising straight towards the centre of the depression with the consequent danger of the liquid peat flowing into the underground roadways . |
| 23 | As you go deeper in towards the centre laboratory you pass through progressively cleaner bio-medical zones , starting here with a shower . |
| 24 | As the eggs sink to the bottom they are guided towards the centre , where the aeration sweeps them upwards again . |
| 25 | To create the sloping sides in the base of the pond , John built up three layers of bricks from the edges , sloping inwards towards the centre . |
| 26 | Push the ends of the roll towards the centre , so the pastry crinkles ( this will prevent it tearing when the roll is curved ) . |
| 27 | After completing the first circle of fabric tufts repeat with a second row about 1 cm away towards the centre . |
| 28 | Thundering towards the centre of the field , giving two South Sussex players the slip , Perdita picked up a beautiful pass from Mike , skedaddled easily round Paul Hedley , hit two glorious offside forehands towards goal , before cutting the ball perfectly through the buttercup-yellow goal posts . |
| 29 | Nos. 56–60 had Brush 's own design of bogies , their ‘ B ’ type , with the driving wheels towards the centre of the car . |
| 30 | Depth is easier to convey pictorially if you avoid shooting your scenes square-on and go instead for diagonal compositions which lead the eye into the picture and direct it towards the centre of attention . |