Example sentences of "[be] at the [adj] heart " in BNC.

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1 In the Reich the various German patriotic societies were designed to combat ‘ Jewish influence ’ , which was seen to be both ethnically alien and racially inferior , and also to be at the very heart of the economic change that at once afflicted and enriched German society .
2 In speeches on April 15 , United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major maintained that the UK 's participation in the EBRD " underlines our commitment to be at the very heart of Europe " [ see also p. 38115 ] and that the UK government 's privatization programme had helped financial companies in London to " build up a wealth of experience from which to draw " , while Mitterrand declared : " A new order has been put in place .
3 The decisions arrived at are at the very heart of the success or failure of the Created God to be the foundation of the Alternative Religion .
4 These aspects of belief are at the very heart of the Eucharist itself .
5 Here , you are at the very heart of this beautiful city , staying in not so much a conventional hotel , as a comfortable home from home where your welcoming hosts are Signor and Signora Farnetani .
6 ‘ … the notion of value within science is at the philosophical heart of scientific administration , just as truth is at the heart of the practice of science ’ .
7 Data integration is especially a problem for geographers because information synthesis is at the very heart of the discipline .
8 Spelling is at the very heart of information technology but , so far in IT Year , it has been largely ignored .
9 It is the ability and willingness to make this mental effort that is at the very heart of the success or failure of the human race to create a viable religion .
10 This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period .
11 Even more important than the nature of the upper is the midsole , for that is at the very heart of the boot 's performance .
12 This principle is at the very heart of all the recommendations relating to drama within the English curriculum that are put forward in this chapter .
13 The difference is at the very heart of the plot .
14 But as we have seen , this is at the very heart of the problem of the survival of free institutions , because if this policy is pursued it would be impossible to stop the drift to totalitarianism .
15 Christians would claim that this parable is at the very heart of the meaning of prayer .
16 This column is genuinely not written with a sense of criticism , but I believe it does demonstrate one of the problems that is at the very heart of British tennis — lack of a sense of vision , a sense of belief and a passionate desire to achieve at the very highest echelons of the world game and not to be content to make a comfortable living in a relatively small pond .
17 But this balance of opposites is at the very heart of the High Elves ' concepts of rulership — being ruled by a single all-powerful dictator would be unthinkable to them .
18 Energy is at the very heart of the longest of these pieces , the Commonwealth Christmas Overture , which brings a riotous conclusion to the disc .
19 Like Benno Moiseiwitsch , Cortot confessed to a special affection for Schumann , whose music is at the very heart of romanticism .
20 And freedom is at the very heart of the idea that is America .
21 It is because this garret is at the very heart of Government .
22 An image of the Great Chain of Being was at the very heart of him ; he often had considerable difficulty in marshalling the arguments for apostasy .
23 Scott Gibbs , whose midfield tackling was at the very heart of the Welsh win , has always struck one as having tremendous potential , but he has before now been roundly censured for his use of the ball after a break .
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