Example sentences of "is [prep] the centre of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is like the centre of a dead world 's soul , thought Grainne . |
| 2 | The South Pole is near the centre of a high , windswept plain . |
| 3 | I got in touch with Bloom and said that I thought the guy had talent and Bloom told me that he was having a wedding anniversary party in Soho , which is in the centre of London , and to give the group £20 and see what he was like . |
| 4 | It must not be assumed that the most likely date is in the centre of the range ; to quantify the distribution of the calendar dates , one of the probability methods ( which require computerisation ) must be used . |
| 5 | The house is in the centre of the village and there seems a very real danger that the goat will eat your Mathematics books . |
| 6 | This fort is in the centre of the city near the sea-front and in front of it is a very pleasant tree-lined road with an open-air café . |
| 7 | ‘ East Midlands is in the centre of the country . |
| 8 | The house is in the centre of the city , on the edge of the Park , two minutes ' walk from the best shops and the square where all the dropouts and drug-addicts meet . |
| 9 | Yes , there is a ski garderie in Verbier ; unfortunately it is in the centre of the village , and since there was no snow in the village the Mini Champion Club was closed from January for the rest of the season . |
| 10 | No no , cos e on the bottom of the ship used to have your , a , your keel of your boat so that is in the centre of the ship |
| 11 | When the small oval is in the centre of the larger then two guidelines appear . |
| 12 | The restaurant is in the centre of the village , surrounded by residential properties , one of which actually adjoins the function room , and the noise of loud music , particularly disco-type music , would adversely affect the quality of life of nearby residents . |
| 13 | NEUE MITTE is in the centre of the town of Oberhausen ( population 225,000 ) , which is itself in the state of North Rhine Westphalia , the largest of the German states both in population ( 17.5 million ) and economic power , where it accounts for over a quarter of Germany 's gross national product . |
| 14 | Erm at point six which is in the centre of Harrogate , again you 'll see there was virtually er no change in five hundred vehicles a day in twenty one thousand . |
| 15 | Well the fact that we had certainly at point six which is in the centre of the urban area which is where we clearly we 're mainly concerned about is where most of the accidents for example are happening . |
| 16 | Bowbazaar is in the centre of Calcutta , surrounded by the city 's main gold market and furniture market . |
| 17 | Five years after the fire , his work now nearing its end , he is at the centre of a specialist team of restorers replacing the recarving swags and pendants which had adorned the King 's Bedchamber and adjoining rooms since the time of Charles II and which now lie boxed or in pieces on shelves and benches at the South East corner of the palace . |
| 18 | However , Mr van Vliet is at the centre of a disagreement within CITES over how to best protect snowdrops — the genus galathus — another plant worth millions in the trade , which is being endangered by sales of wild stocks . |
| 19 | IN THE Soviet Union , poetry is at the centre of everyday life in a way that the West would find inconceivable . |
| 20 | Some men from Muftah were descended from Sidi Hasan , the saint whose tomb is at the centre of the cemetery in Ajdabiya , and they might intervene to bring a quarrel to an end . |
| 21 | The Gothic style Manor House is set in the midst of 120 acres ( 50 hectares ) of gardens and parkland ; it was built in 1804 to replace a previous Jacobean residence , and is at the centre of the 3,300 acres ( 1,335 hectares ) Bradwell Grove Estate , where for many centuries farming and forestry have been practised in a way typical of life in the Cotswolds . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Methodologically , the ‘ chronotope ’ — the specific organization of space and time within the work or within a genre — is at the centre of Bakhtin 's tracings of the changes within genres and of the boundaries between them . |
| 24 | Toftingall is at the centre of Caithness and in times past was the meeting place for local clans , who gathered there prior to setting off south in search of revenge , plunder or just a jolly good fight . |
| 25 | Coleridge 's inkstand is at the centre of the table |
| 26 | A HOLE in the ground that would engulf St Paul 's Cathedral 30 times over is at the centre of a row over Britain 's application to join the minor league of strategic-metals producers . |
| 27 | Now , 32 years later , Ken is at the centre of a love tangle with girlfriend Maggie , her son Mark , and arch-enemy Mike Baldwin . |
| 28 | A FORMER slave who used to draw and paint on scraps of cardboard is at the centre of a multi-million pound legal battle . |
| 29 | Today it is at the centre of things . |
| 30 | PREMIER John Major is at the centre of a Cabinet battle over interest rate cuts , it was revealed last night . |