Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] heart " in BNC.
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| 1 | Located at the very heart of San Francisco on Union Square , this elegant and historic hotel is arguably San Francisco 's finest , and offers a wide range of facilities and excellent accommodation to the discerning traveller . |
| 2 | But with stunning clarity they demonstrate again how the great reformer has unleashed forces which he and his country no longer control , and which now are playing on the German Question itself , the issue which lies at the very heart of today 's European order . |
| 3 | Cleopatra 's gradual development , from scheming flirt to a woman who finds herself deeply in love , lies at the very heart of the opera . |
| 4 | ‘ ... there is a resistance to identity which lies at the very heart of psychic life . ’ |
| 5 | It is this conundrum that lies at the very heart of the Section 28 debate — not to mention Labour 's problems with it . |
| 6 | A feeling of failure lies at the very heart of Serb nationalism , and with that come all the various justifications for this failure : all the various Cominterns , masonries and their unbelievable plots . |
| 7 | The prime consideration should be the evaluation and use of evidence , which lies at the very heart of the historical method . |
| 8 | Local authorities were anxious to redevelop the area as soon as possible , as it lies at the very heart of the town 's commercial district . |
| 9 | This duty which every partner owes to each of his co-partners lies at the very heart of the partnership relationship . |
| 10 | The arguments about when to leave a casualty were addressed at the American Heart Association 's national conference on cardiopulmonary resuscitation in 1992 and were rehearsed in detail in its proceedings . |
| 11 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 12 | Catalysts lie at the very heart of the chemicals industry . |
| 13 | Wealth generation and the creation of employment opportunities lie at the very heart of economic development . |
| 14 | Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both . |
| 15 | How much to vary the product according to the market was a problem which hit at the very heart of the business . |
| 16 | It indicates that there is something left over after the linguists have done their work , a dark or light madness about language that will not be repressed and that can erupt at the very heart of the most sacred regulations identified as normative by grammarians . |
| 17 | He loved the bittersweet aura of it all , the mixture of ecstasy and debasement that he felt lay at the paradoxical heart of life . |
| 18 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 19 | Will the Secretary of State answer that question truthfully because it strikes at the very heart of democracy ? |
| 20 | Colleagues , union de-recognition strikes at the very heart of the trade union movement , and in preparing to face this challenge , the G M B must be at the forefront of the fight . |
| 21 | But this struck at the very heart of what Laura was hoping to achieve and she quashed the suggestion with ferocity . |
| 22 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |
| 23 | The study of " kinship " really does lie at the very heart of social anthropology and anthropologists argue a great deal among themselves about just what the word is supposed to mean . |
| 24 | This seems to strike at the very heart of many of the cases which are made against firms of accountants . |
| 25 | Pupil/peer recognition can hit at the very heart of the learning system and either inhibit or encourage progress . |