Example sentences of "[verb] be at the heart " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conviviality has been at the heart of sport . |
| 2 | The question of what is significant has been at the heart of much recent discussion , but is not addressed in the ASB 's proposals . |
| 3 | This is a distinction which has been at the heart of a good deal of post-war curricular reform in the schools both in the USA and the UK ( see , for example , Bruner 1960 ) , and which will be explored further in due course . |
| 4 | Above all , instrumental and purposive rationality has been at the heart of the whole project of Western science and technology which has , over the last two centuries , transformed the natural and social orders . |
| 5 | The idea of the ‘ self ’ — what gives an individual a sense of personal identity , and how others recognize this self — has been at the heart of a philosophical debate since David Hume claimed to repudiate the existence of the ‘ self ’ as a separate entity in the eighteenth century ( Hume , 1739 ) . |
| 6 | Self-evaluation from which review and audit can begin has been at the heart of a long-standing national project , Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 7 | I say real progress has been made but today I am asking you to think about the next step a step that I am sure we all feel is at the heart of the matter a transforming step perhaps the critical step that will guarantee ultimate success in fulfilling god 's loving will for his church . |
| 8 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 9 | But at all events , the insurmountable obstacle to such planning was the total unwillingness of unions to accept manpower planning which had been at the heart of wartime economic direction . |
| 10 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 11 | In Essex , a shire which had been at the heart of the 1381 troubles , the peasantry were able to improve their lot after the repression of the revolt . |
| 12 | It seems to open up all the disturbing conflicts and inconsistencies which have been at the heart of their problems . |
| 13 | We have been at the heart of the action . |
| 14 | Figures for the balance of payments which have been at the heart of much policy discussion since the war , are an outstanding example of most of these difficulties [ Dow , 1964 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 15 | This balance is particularly important for several of the industries that have been at the heart of the Japanese economic miracle like motor vehicles , electrical consumer goods , watches or cameras . |
| 16 | Italy 's cities have been at the heart of world history , art and culture , and everywhere tributes remain to great masters like Leonardo Da Vinci . |
| 17 | The Psalms offer a rich mixture of spiritual , literary and musical expression and they have been at the heart of the Church 's daily worship since biblical times . |
| 18 | I agree with the Secretary of State that the matters involved are highly technical and that the Hydrotechnica report deals with matters that have been at the heart of the controversy . |
| 19 | To turn three pages of essay into 77 pages of story looks suspiciously like the kind of redundant ornamentation that Steiner suggests is at the heart of what is wrong with Western values . |