Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was at 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The temple was at the centre of the city of Knossos , geographically and economically , of that there seems little doubt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |