Example sentences of "was centred [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest was centred on the music rather than the performer . |
| 2 | His walk was very brisk and he always carried a preoccupied expression as if his mind was centred on the way the next work of art might be tackled . |
| 3 | Their life was centred on the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England . |
| 4 | ‘ We have reason to believe , ’ said the sergeant , taking no notice of the question , ‘ that this boat has recently been involved in illegal traffic , and that the said operation was centred on the island of Faarsay . ’ |
| 5 | One consequence of this is that although the observations suggest that the cloud was centred on the Equator , the model simulates a cloud at about 10°N , because it does not allow for rapid transport of the cloud into the tropics and Southern Hemisphere . |
| 6 | The work was centred on the PISAN CANTOS , which were written when Pound was imprisoned after his arrest on treason charges ( for broadcasting in favour of the Fascist cause on Italian radio ) . |
| 7 | Yet in the 1930s Nizan 's intellectual itinerary was centred on the attempt to reconcile a genuine belief in the moral integrity of Marxism with the practical application of communist party politics , the attempt , in other words , to reconcile intellectual images with political reality . |
| 8 | His power there was centred on the great castle at Trim , which he held at the king 's pleasure . |
| 9 | The political crisis was centred on the figure of Ezer Weizmann , the Minister of Science and Technology . |
| 10 | The roundup was centred on the predominantly Shia Moslem Bnaid al-Gar district and communist and fundamentalist Shia opposition figures were particularly targeted . |
| 11 | The first earthquake , which struck at 4.58 a.m. and lasted up to 40 seconds , was centred on the remote communities of Joshua Tree and Yucca Valley , 160 km east of Los Angles . |
| 12 | " I " was something very real , the only real thing about my present state , and all the conscious activity connected with my body was centred on the " I " . |
| 13 | For most of the first week of February high pressure was centred to the southeast or south of Scotland giving a generally cloudy , mild , southwesterly flow over the country , although the month started with a sharp frost in central and southern areas . |
| 14 | Its leadership established itself in London although its real strength was centred in the towns and cities of the Midlands . |
| 15 | The US Geological Survey said that the earthquake measured 7.5 on the Richter scale and was centred in the Susamyr valley . |
| 16 | The traditional village was centred around the church with its white walls and red or grey stonework . |
| 17 | Major area of the damage to the aircraft was centred around the propellers and undersides of the aircraft . |
| 18 | Most of the Group 's production was centred around the Etruria Works and in Hanley . |
| 19 | An alternative proposal , support for which was centred around the strongly " pro-whaling " members — Norway , Iceland and Japan — that commercial whaling be allowed to resume immediately on all stocks which had recovered to 30 per cent of estimated pre-hunting levels , was rejected by 19 votes to seven . |
| 20 | Support for this was centred around the strongly " pro-whaling " nations of Norway , Iceland and Japan . |
| 21 | In the first place , the fact that his value system was centred upon the principle of autocracy was hardly fortuitous . |
| 22 | Work was centred upon the tabulation of entities . |
| 23 | In the Shropshire parish of Myddle between 1541 and 1701 nearly everyone found a husband or wife within a 10-mile radius of his or her dwelling and most partners came from within the neighbourhood that was centred upon the market towns of Shrewsbury , Ellesmere and Wem ; only the gentry sought wives or husbands from a slightly wider area . |