Example sentences of "centre around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , the body debate has tended to centre around photography and media representations specifically those pertaining to race and sexuality . |
| 2 | For HCI guests the daytime fun and games are centred around Drago with its lively family atmosphere . |
| 3 | In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice . |
| 4 | Much of the debate centred around evidence of damage . |
| 5 | And although one or two other trials , in the 1890s for example , centred around birth control , at no time after 1877 was birth-control propaganda hindered by law . |
| 6 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 7 | Reasons for needing to speak the minority language in the workplace usually centred around communication with workmates or occasionally with customers or the ‘ boss ’ ( LMP ) . |
| 8 | A large mining company operating in Western Australia , the Alcoa corporation , has launched a land care programme centred around tree-planting in an effort to combat salination . |
| 9 | Immigration from the mainland was to be strictly controlled while Macao 's entertainment industry , centred around gambling casinos , was to be preserved as a major support to the territory 's economy . |
| 10 | On the face of it his life centred around business of one sort or another , his own and the council 's . |
| 11 | And you can also determine from the sequence that the common evolutionary origin er was er centred around potassium channels . |
| 12 | The £5,000 million programme is centred around energy efficiency and renewable power sources . |
| 13 | FAST is to coordinate an operation in conjunction with the UK 's 1600 Trading Standards officers to establish a nationwide database and programme of investigations centred around car boot sales . |
| 14 | The group is centred around Professor X , the Overseer ; Brother J , the Grand Verbaliser Funkin-Lesson ; and the Rhythm Provider , Sugar Shaft — upfront , serious brothers bringing a spiritual neo-nationalism to the streets of urban America , using hip hop culture to introduce and develop Blackwatch , a youth organisation working for self-help in the black inner cities . |
| 15 | Traditionally , as Okigbo points out , a production unit of this kind w ill consist of a number of fields centred around garden plots that are permanently cultivated ; each field has a specific intercropping and fallowing pattern and the system as a whole relies on manual labour rather than mechanisation , with limited inputs of fertilisers and pesticides . |
| 16 | The reply given by Mrs. Bottomley centred around trade barriers not being acceptable and the answer appeared to me to contradict the action taken by America where President Bush has stated that Japanese imports are to be restricted . |
| 17 | Morgan sees the key issues centring around production , with costs , safety , the environment and reputation as core elements . |