centre around/on something

Examples of centring

centring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Contemporary discourses centring upon the body have dominated theoretical conversations in cultural studies for the last generation.
This idea initially seems promising, but it has a fatal flaw centring around the problem of the domain of conjunction.
Two of the three lowest ranking questions were less patient oriented, centring on issues of generic prescribing and the secondary/primary care sector interface.
Of the four, the last centring on the legality of the transfer documents was obviously the weakest.
This, then, is the basis of his analysis centring on the concept of privacy.
There are, then, a series of chapters centring around the object-oriented paradigm.
He broadened his horizons further at the end of the 1930s, centring his investigations on the interrelationship between industrialisation and agricultural development.
The analyses were comparative, centring around two corpora of quasi-natural negotiation discourse, produced by professional negotiators and aspiring negotiators (students of international business communication).
Rather than being fixed, these preconditions continually changed, centring on concepts like openness, engagement, identity and competence.
Such a configuration may be interpreted as a centring diphthong with a relatively long first element.
However, a textbook must of course limit its coverage, and as no centring diphthongs occur in the transcribed passage, the omission is understandable.
A more historical approach, centring on the idea of urbanization, is advocated, with the aim of drawing together the disparate fields of study.
This approach is different to ours in the sense of centring the analysis only in the deviations from the conventional means.
The camera should have a rising front for use in centring the picture vertically.
In that case, weak centring is preferred to centring.
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