Example sentences of "who [be] at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 2 | In Funny Business it 's a clown who 's at the centre of the fun . |
| 3 | The organiser of a Kurdish refugee charity who 's at the centre of a fraud squad investigation is reported to be carrying out relief work in Turkey . |
| 4 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 5 | But Allan Lamb , who is at the centre of the ball-tampering row , has been hung out to dry by the game 's gutless rulers . |
| 6 | That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children . |
| 7 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |