Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the [adj] centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knight may hold ‘ his right course ’ ( XII , 43 ) but Envy and Detraction remain a hostile destructive force at the civilised centre as well as the savage margin . |
| 2 | The EPA has already engaged an eminent pioneer in the field of biotechnology to complement Loper 's approach : Dr A. M. Chakrabarty , micro biologist at the Medical Centre of the University of Illinois in Chicago . |
| 3 | The pallbearers laid the coffin down in the clear space at the exact centre of the cemetery , and moved to the edges , standing amidst the grave markers like ragged vultures . |
| 4 | Language , by not replacing the signified thing at the supposed centre of the structure it has created , discredits the idea of there being a centre at all . |
| 5 | In the mid-1970s an argument for the existence of a black hole at the Galactic Centre came from the discovery of a γ -ray line at 511keV ( ref. 78 ) attributed to the annihilation of electrons and positrons from the general direction of the nucleus . |
| 6 | The search for a black hole at the Galactic Centre remains inconclusive at present . |
| 7 | Some astronomers have suggested that the energetic activity results from matter accreting onto a black hole at the very centre with a mass as much as several million times that of the Sun . |
| 8 | Applicants who must be aged 1824 , should contact Haylli Bellerby at the civic centre . |
| 9 | With the Triplane boring in from behind he fired a long burst at the dead centre of the bag , and saw the fabric split and flare . |
| 10 | I am sure myself that Europe is stronger when Britain , France and Germany are working together , and Britain is paying a full part at the very centre of the European community . |
| 11 | A more productive starting point is provided by focusing on racism in the mainstream and seeing ‘ race ’ and racism not as fringe questions but as a volatile presence at the very centre of British politics , actively shaping and determining the history not simply of blacks , but of this country as a whole at a crucial stage in its development . |
| 12 | It may be that the simplest change in the theory , given awkward observations , would be a general structural change at the very centre rather than a whole series of alterations further out . |