Example sentences of "a [noun] at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a stocking stitch tension might be 28 stitches in width to 10 cm , placing a cable at the centre might reduce the tension to 8 or 9 cm . |
| 2 | My self is a speck at the centre of uncontrollable limbs stretching into the void . |
| 3 | A scientist at the centre said that finding uncontaminated air in any of the three coffins would be the " Rosetta Stone of the atmosphere " . |
| 4 | Using an open doorway , screw in a hook at the centre of the door frame and suspend the skirt to the height required . |
| 5 | ‘ De Craon is there , ’ Selkirk rasped and pointed to a figure at the centre of the galley just between the two masts . |
| 6 | The angle subtended by a side at the centre of the circumscribing sphere is 41° 52′ . |
| 7 | On this day : Saladin entered Jerusalem , 1187 ; the Duke of York captured Alkmaar in the Netherlands , 1799 ; Rome became the capital city of Italy , 1870 ; Brigham Young , Mormon leader , was arrested for bigamy , 1871 ; the first Royal Naval submarine was launched at Barrow , 1901 ; the first rugby football match was played at Twickenham , 1909 ; Italy invaded Ethiopia , 1935 ; the liner Empress of Britain , bound for Canada with refugees , was sunk , 1940 ; the British Council received a Royal Charter , 1940 ; 338 people died when the Queen Mary liner collided with the British cruiser Curacao , which sank off the coast of Donegal , 1942 ; a new island , with a volcano at the centre , appeared off Fayal Island , Azores 1957 ; Guinea became an independent republic , 1958 ; the first London performance of the musical show Promises , Promises was presented , 1968 . |
| 8 | With the adjoining terraces , they have never previously been used for an art exhibition , although Californian conceptual artist , Peter Erskine , placed a helioscope at the centre of his recent installation , ‘ Secrets of the Sun ’ ( to 10 May ) . |
| 9 | They had come into a gallery at the centre of which was a large glass case , round which the boys — apart from Khan and the Husayns — were crowded . |
| 10 | Coalition was the negation of the party system , for as party assumed a grouping from the centre to one of the extremes , coalition assumed a grouping at the centre to the exclusion of extremists . |
| 11 | When do the hands appear to stop — before reaching the boundary of the hole , or at the boundary exactly , or when it is crushed to a point at the centre of the hole ? ’ |
| 12 | A startling illustration of another educator 's naive understanding of the work of drama teachers occurs in a recent publication by David Hargreaves ( 1982 ) who recommends that the arts and drama in particular should be given a place at the centre of the curriculum . |
| 13 | But the incident has drawn attention to the fact that since the collapse of the Soviet Union , Europe with Britain as America 's main ally can no longer expect to be guaranteed a place at the centre of United States foreign policy . |
| 14 | It takes us from Brussels to Valkenbourg , which the Tour visits for the first time , a town at the centre of the ‘ Dutch Alps ’ ; then to Koblenz in Germany , where the Moselle meets the Rhine ; to Luxembourg , then to Strasbourg , the most German of French cities ; and finally to Mulhouse , where the riders have a day off the bike as they transfer to Dole , the beginning of the Alpine stages . |
| 15 | This friendly Club Hotel is set at the edge of a lagoon at the centre of a resort complex offering a range of facilities . |
| 16 | According to Lonnie Thompson , a glaciologist at the Centre , temperatures in the Gregoriev Ice Cap in Kirghizistan have risen by 4 degrees centigrade since 1962 . |
| 17 | A HEAD at the centre of a sex probe has resigned . |
| 18 | A day at the centre 's fun for everyone but most important are the results which prove that play therapy is no soft option . |
| 19 | The princess was due to plant a tree at the centre . |
| 20 | You are a student at the centre , Madame ? ’ |
| 21 | AT LEIDEN University late last year , about 1,000 sociologists , human rights workers , students and former victims , attended a Symposium at the Centre for the Study of Social Conflicts , on ‘ Torturers and their Political Masters ’ . |
| 22 | All the students spend two days a week at the centre , they also spend time at their original schools and on work experience . |
| 23 | This investigation is therefore intended to be both a serious historical research project based on a dozen or more geographically dispersed archives and a contribution to the wider understanding of a society at the centre of much attention but little insight . |
| 24 | The hotel was a hollow square with a courtyard at the centre . |
| 25 | A man at the centre of a stay-behind group in France has been killed in a Brittany sailing resort . |
| 26 | A guyline at the centre of each side would prevent this . |
| 27 | De Vito treats Hoffa as a tragic American hero but , despite the possibilities of a Godfather-like plot , there is a hole at the centre of the film where scriptwriter David Mamet has failed to supply a reason why Hoffa was the exceptional man he undoubtedly was . |
| 28 | Sellafield is like a spider at the centre of the British nuclear industry 's web . |
| 29 | In a pattern of development which took the form of a circus containing a garden at the centre , with roads radiating towards the cardinal points , the land was divided into small plots which were developed by various builders between 1843 and 1850 . |
| 30 | Some news in brief now — an English High Court judge is this afternoon visiting a farm at the centre of attempts to sue chemicals firm Re-Chem . |