Example sentences of "[pron] [is] at [art] heart " in BNC.

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1 Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form .
2 The first two tasks , though hideously difficult , were at least relatively straightforward ; the third posed the problem which is at the heart of Peter Dennis 's book : whose law was to be restored and what civilian authority should take over ?
3 Developments in Tanzania in the mid 1970s were , however , to end in the direct contradiction of this injunction , a contradiction which is at the heart of Tanzania 's tendency towards an authoritarian state .
4 This looking towards God is therefore the life of contemplation , which is at the heart of the truly Christian life .
5 After all , Mnemosyne is , by Zeus , mother of the muses and goddess of Memory , which is at the heart of pretty well all states of mind .
6 This may be an exaggerated view of the public 's overall reaction , but it is certainly not of a vocal minority : It is this pursuit of utopia which is at the heart of the reason why anyone concerned with buildings should understand and take into account the impact of planning control .
7 Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts .
8 This touches all aspects of the curriculum , history , geography , economics as well as religious education , which is at the heart of it all . ’
9 Although it may be contended that it is the process of collective bargaining as an ongoing activity which is at the heart of industrial relations , the negotiating process itself has received little attention in international studies ( an exception is Smith and Turkington , 1981 ) .
10 They serve , like other WACC publications , a process of policy formation , which is at the heart of both Project and Forum activities .
11 In face of all this , it is difficult to deny Mr Jay 's proposition : that it is the active exploitation by the unions of their monopoly of the supply of labour which is at the heart of the country 's chronic economic malaise .
12 274 , the only case of authority on the point which is at the heart of this appeal ( which case in any event is not binding on your Lordships ) , applied the obiter dicta in Lawrence to reach an erroneous conclusion .
13 This raises many questions about the extent to which any depreciation charge could yield a useful measure of this use but , given the policy of fixed depreciation charges imposed by Government , it would be hard to see how these charges would be capable of measuring actual usage of assets ( a point which is at the heart of the difference between the two accounting traditions ) .
14 It is not magic or superstition which is at the heart of the sacrilege so much as morality . ’
15 It is this kind of darkness which is at the heart of the Cloud-author 's work and constitutes the cloud of unknowing .
16 It is in the context of such liturgical and meditative patterning of the Passion narrative that the two most powerful meditations attributed to Rolle should be studied in order to understand their full potential for helping that transformation of consciousness which is at the heart of mystical experience .
17 In most religious traditions the concept of " God " is invoked as the name for that Mystery which is at the heart of religion ( see Chapters 5 and 8 ) .
18 The managing director of Noble Bros in Fraserburgh , Ian Smith , was today closely monitoring the situation in Roscoff , where his firm sends up to two tons of fish daily , but which is at the heart of violent French protests .
19 It is an extremely large and impressive setting , emphasising the gulf between East and West which is at the heart of Butterfly 's tragedy .
20 And Kinnock himself is at the heart of the alternative establishments .
21 It is at the heart of the old saying ‘ A trouble shared is a trouble halved ’ .
22 It is at the heart of contemporary conceptions of what the media do and ought to do .
23 It is at the heart such a socialist system .
24 Effective RE must therefore be concerned with the building-up of concepts which are worthy of a person 's total development , emotional , experiential and intellectual , and which fairly represent what is at the heart of all great religious traditions .
25 The unique insights of each are not lost , for in order to have a less inadequate appreciation of what is at the heart of reality we need to affirm all insights .
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