Example sentences of "[noun sg] centred around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come evening and Kos comes alive with the action centred around the ‘ Street of Much Music ’ where bars and restaurants stand shoulder to shoulder broadcasting pop and rock , across the ruins opposite , loud into the night . |
| 2 | At Cambridge his research centred around the embryology , anatomy , and taxonomy of Polyzoa and Cephalodiscus , for which he was the first of the Cambridge zoologists to use the binocular microscope . |
| 3 | The main recommendations of the Bains Committee centred around the respective responsibilities of members and officers . |
| 4 | Any substantive disagreement centred around the issue of what role social deprivation and unemployment had in bringing young people to protest violently on the streets . |
| 5 | Much of the concern expressed prior to the passing of the 1967 Act centred around the supposed vulnerability of children , and this has made the possibility of a lowering of the age of consent a remote one . |
| 6 | Occasionally , knowing that all but two fieldsmen must patrol the area within the 30-yard circle centred around the stumps at each end , they chip the ball over their heads into the ‘ no-mans 's land ’ beyond them . |
| 7 | One answer to such a detailed approach has been to revitalize the notion of large-scale geomorphology for example ( Gardner and Scoging , 1983 ) but another has been to concentrate upon human activity as providing a focus centred around the central system ( p. 156 ) . |
| 8 | The technical improvements of this period centred around the problem of increasing the fire-power of armies ; and towards this end a good deal of progress was made . |
| 9 | Much debate centred around the lack of coherent policies for the area and dissatisfaction with the perceived motivation behind those policies that do exist . |
| 10 | The debate centred around the issue of state control of education , of which Williams was in favour , and in particular the Aristotelian view on the issue . |
| 11 | In late 1992 , much political debate centred around the government 's determination to keep expenditure plans for 1993/ 94 within the specified ‘ planning total ’ of 244.5bn . |
| 12 | This book documents the participation of women in a struggle centred around the concerns of rural India . |
| 13 | AY 's defence centred around the claim that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar , as its auditor , and not to WG , even though it also audited the WG group accounts . |
| 14 | Weather was often poor , and recreation centred around the bars provided . |
| 15 | Much of the hearing centred around the carriage doorlock . |
| 16 | At Hastings and at Southport in 1934 , controversy centred around the issue of " Emergency Powers " , i.e. the granting to a future Labour government of " authority to take over or regulate the financial machine , and to put into force any measures that the situation may require for the immediate control or socialization of industry " . |
| 17 | This time instead of relying on her own memories stemming from her childhood centred around the home in Priesthouse Lane where she was born and still lives , Miss Rimmer armed herself with a tape recorder and interviewed the town 's oldest residents ranging in age from 70 to 99 . |
| 18 | Police activity centred around the offence and the apprehension of a perpetrator . |
| 19 | The discussion centred around the flexibility clause which is unlikely to be removed . |
| 20 | December 4 : 50th anniversary of the start of Operation Crossbow will be commemorated with a special display centred around the V-1 flying-bomb . |
| 21 | LASMO holds extensive interests in the northern part of the Southern Gas Basin centred around the Caister-Murdoch system . |