Example sentences of "central to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he said — if contemporary accounts are to be believed — includes the first use of the word that , as a geographical descriptive and identifier , is central to this book and , if one accepts the dominant economic theses of today , central to the future development of the planet . |
| 2 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 3 | In consequence , the convention of collective responsibility ( so central to the liberal constitution ) becomes drained of much of its significance and Parliament as a whole is reduced to a dignified rubber stamp of the " efficient " Cabinet and Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Being is rejected by many linguistic philosophers as a meaningless or misleading term , a conceptual chimera ; but it is central to the phenomenological tradition . |
| 5 | The issue of smuggling and of the sale of items of national significance is central to the present scheme . |
| 6 | Though this work is not central to the present requirements , there are some lessons to be learnt . |
| 7 | In Chapter 2 , we saw that the tension between liberal education , with knowledge considered ‘ as its own end ’ , and a more utilitarian conception of higher education was central to the nineteenth-century debate . |
| 8 | Leadership is central to the effective management of educational institutions . |
| 9 | Central to the effective working of Athenian democracy was the idea of active citizenship . |
| 10 | The Registry and its organization is central to the effective management of information . |
| 11 | Exporting is central to the economic development of Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | The classic British ‘ regional problem ’ of the coalfields in the 1930s resulted from the collapse of the coal industry ( partly as a result of the collapse of the UK 's position within an earlier international division of labour ) which had been so central to the economic structure of a number of areas of the country . |
| 13 | And , of course , Sunday is now central to the great shopping experience . |
| 14 | The concept of domain is central to the diglossic view of bilingualism that was dominant in studies of bilingual communities until recently : see Martin-Jones ( 1991 ) for a critical appraisal of this approach . |
| 15 | In examining anchoring and objectification , a strategy central to the rhetorical approach ( Billig , 1985 , 1987 ) will be adopted . |
| 16 | In talking of the contradictory elements of social consciousness , social representation theorists would be addressing an issue which is central to the rhetorical approach to social psychology . |
| 17 | These are central to the traditional aims and concerns of English teaching , and our recommended programmes of study therefore include exploration of drama . |
| 18 | According to OSF , the Tivoli framework remains central to the object-based management framework . |
| 19 | They and their closest American collaborators asserted the superiority economically as well as morally of free labour systems as central to the international emancipation campaign and sought to purify slaveholding societies by purifying Protestant denominations and missionary enterprise of slaveholders . |
| 20 | Central to the working class was the establishment of a stable urban culture segregated by sex where boys ‘ learned ’ how to be men . |
| 21 | In its November 1987 Offer For Sale Eurotunnel stated that ‘ safety and security considerations have been central to the overall design of the System and the plans for its operation ’ . |
| 22 | Central to the overall strategy is the ability to communicate information about individual patients and their care throughout the NHS . |
| 23 | While finance is central to the new policies , other measures have been hugely successful . |
| 24 | CENTRAL TO THE FIRST REFURBISHED ‘ Denon ’ Savoy release are five discs devoted to Charlie Parker ( 1920–1955 ) — ‘ core repertoire ’ for all enthusiasts of jazz in the second half of the 1940s , from whence all these recordings ( if not the actual compilations ) come . |
| 25 | The specific form and impact of the tax-government expenditure multipliers are more central to the current context . |
| 26 | Shorter working hours and a shorter working lifetime have always been central to the Labour movement 's demands . |
| 27 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 28 | The comity debate was central to the Supreme Court 's consideration of the Aérospatiale litigation in 1987 . |
| 29 | The discussion focuses on members of the authorities ( executive and non-executives ) and three issues central to the successful implementation of these changes . |
| 30 | The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age . |