active centre
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Olga Mayans and Jennifer Fleming created a three-dimensional model of its enzyme structure and active centre to understand the reaction pathway.
From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2023
By 1700 Boston had already overtaken Oxford and Cambridge to become the second most active centre of publishing of English books after London.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2013
New Orleans is not so large; its active centre is very small.
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by Cable, George Washington
No more urgent necessity had ever arisen than this present, and One-Tree Pass for once in its life became the active centre of the island.
From White Fire by Oxenham, John
Such was his conception of the man who now became Secretary to the Duke of York, and an active centre of intrigue.
From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
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