Example sentences of "centre for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her purpose was to establish a pilot project which might encourage the government to use its antenatal clinics and infant and maternal welfare clinics , of which there were more than 2,000 , to distribute information on birth control and contraceptives ; the Ministry of Health was by that time offering financial aid to the 400 local authorities who ran such clinics and could have forced them to become centres for birth control .
2 Future negotiations would deal with specific topics including " the cessation of all outside interference in terms of personal or material support in the present conflict " ; the grouping of heavy weaponry under international control ; and the establishment of refugee and relief centres for citizens of Bosnia-Hercegovina expelled from their homes , pending their return .
3 Smith , Gregg and Andrews ( 1989 ) devised the following ranking of selection methods with respect to their predictive validity : graphology and astrology were at the same level as chance prediction , references and interviews were a little higher , then structured interviews , then biodata , personality tests and assessment centres for performance , then ability tests and work sample tests and finally , at the highest level , assessment centres for promotion .
4 Now , however , the majority of manufacturing firms seek locations in smaller towns where space is more abundant , with the result that the role of cities has become increasingly that of centres for service sector activities .
5 Since then the serious pushing has taken place in Colombia where the cocaine cartels have literally ruined football by using Medellin and FC Cali as laundering centres for drug money .
6 The County Council is launching two Euro information centres for businesses on June 18 .
7 For example at the end of October 1990 37,000 results were still outstanding from centres for session 1989/90 .
8 It includes a grid diagram showing all of the new Sciences modules that will be available to centres for session 1991/92 .
9 Five Centres for Choice
10 Seven Centres for Choice
11 On March 20 ( as provisionally agreed by the Cabinet on March 14 ) the West German government , which faced growing strain on its economy and social services and increasing pressure from local and regional governments , decided to close the emergency reception centres for East German immigrants from July 1 .
12 Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas .
13 This museum is rapidly becoming one of the most important study centres for costumes and textiles .
14 Under the terms of the Bill , it would be the duty of the National Assistance Board to provide and maintain reception centres for persons without a set way of life i.e. the casual poor , or vagrants .
15 We also use those homes as centres for day care , and the financial effects of that are estimated and taken out of these calculations , but I think it 's important for members to remember that your residential homes are n't purely and simply providing only residential care , they are also centres for day care in that particular area .
16 We also use those homes as centres for day care , and the financial effects of that are estimated and taken out of these calculations , but I think it 's important for members to remember that your residential homes are n't purely and simply providing only residential care , they are also centres for day care in that particular area .
17 Smith , Gregg and Andrews ( 1989 ) devised the following ranking of selection methods with respect to their predictive validity : graphology and astrology were at the same level as chance prediction , references and interviews were a little higher , then structured interviews , then biodata , personality tests and assessment centres for performance , then ability tests and work sample tests and finally , at the highest level , assessment centres for promotion .
18 In Raoul 's case , there is a further frame attached to the sub-frame , and this is to hold both camera and radio equipment because , as you can see , he has utilised each of the pivot points as centres for cogwheels .
19 A piece of living history , it is also the most relaxing of centres for shopping , eating and even a little golf .
20 Production centres for window glass and glass vessels are , at present , few and far between , beyond the large glasshouse in the civitas capital at Caistor-by-Norwich .
21 He was also made an honorary villager of Guilin , one of the main centres for child artists and his status in China means that he can now travel freely and have access to areas of Chinese life which are not generally open to foreign visitors .
22 Other centres for European and German Studies have been established at Georgetown University , and the University of California , Berkeley .
23 Does the Minister accept that when universities and other educational institutions are used as centres for terrorist activity .
24 Even private investors of modest means can use offshore centres for tax referral .
25 In a couple of cases , however , it seems that there were secondary centres for distribution : Humberside for Langdale axes and Essex for Cornish axes .
26 A questionnaire was recently sent to all piloting centres for distribution to general SVQ candidates .
27 Provision of dedicated centres for HIV antibody testing undermines this service and can only potentiate a hypocritical morality regarding sexual behaviour .
28 This is especially true of those pubs now targeted by the breweries as centres for family eating .
29 The site is near the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Vallés Technological Park and close to two large centres for micro-electronics and material sciences .
30 Throughout Britain , they have set up centres for Jews to meet .
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