Sentence examples for become centred from inspiring English sources

His passions are to become centred on Vera, who is absurdly and rather naively depicted as a nymphomaniac.

Mr Reekie said: "Originally the Olympics was equally about sport and culture and over the years it's become centred on sport, so the London bid tried to redress that with a big cultural component.

After Horton's death, Carawan became the school's music director in 1959, by which time Highlander's focus had become centred on civil rights as the anti-segregation sit-ins and bus boycotts grew.

The rot set in years ago, but the focus of this crisis has become centred on John Howard, a director of the club for 15 years and the current vice-chairman.

Not before the triumph of princely government, in fact, did political allegiance, economic interests, and spiritual authority again become centred in a viable unit of organization, the absolutist nation-state.

With equal artistic skill, other French enamellers decorated items of jewelry, especially watchcases; and, by the second half of the 17th century, this craft had become centred on Geneva, where it continued to flourish into the 19th century.

Initially, livestock and land were rented out together under "stock and lease" contracts, but this was found to be increasingly impractical and contracts for farms became centred purely on land.

"Downside risks dominate and have become increasingly centred on emerging and developing countries," it said.

There had been some whispered talk leading up to this match of that seductive vice known as Messidependencia, with some fearing this team might become too centred on its No10, soft-pedalling to its detriment those other high-end attacking talents.

When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases.

It is easy to become self-centred in the ghazal's last sher - the form invites it.