Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] is at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile I am exploring the edges of a continent where most of its people are clustered and , except in city and suburb , well scattered where settlement is at the mercy of geography , as indeed is the peroipatetic topographer , constantly on the lookout for some assembly of landscape elements that can be turned into pictures and — because of indoctrination by a European culture — pictures of a particular sort . |
| 2 | A state of temporary confusion or puzzlement is at the heart of all learning . |
| 3 | above all , we will out-perform our competition by ensuring that quality is at the forefront of everything we do . |
| 4 | It is well to share this perception that learning is at the heart of development because , even after nearly three decades of activities in the NHS , development is still associated by many managers with ‘ going on courses ’ . |
| 5 | Well , Edgar Wallace ( a writer not to be despised , as he sometimes is ) once said that vanity is at the back of most murders , and he had as a reporter covered many a murder trail . |
| 6 | And freedom is at the very heart of the idea that is America . |
| 7 | Trust is essential to intimacy , and intimacy is at the core of a successful marriage . |
| 8 | Innocence and Experience is at the Ferens Art Gallery , Hull until 10 Jan 1993 ; Castle Museum , Nottingham 16 Jan-28 Feb ; Kelvingrove Art Gallery , Glasgow 6 Mar-25 April . |
| 9 | Their inclusion and removal is at the discretion of the force which enters the record on the police national computer . |
| 10 | According to Robert Blaich , Director of Design , design for manufacture and assembly is at the centre of Philips 's compacted development time . |
| 11 | If storage is at the mean maximum temperature and humidity , this will give some exaggeration of actual market conditions , the extent of which will depend on diurnal and seasonal variations occurring in the market in question . |
| 12 | But one must remember that the divergent reading of the Christian myth by Reformation and Counter-Reformation is at the heart of the religious as opposed to the rough interpretation of the conflict . |
| 13 | This had the effect of denying any historical role to philosophy ; since philosophy is at the level of the superstructure it is therefore determined by the base . |
| 14 | It should also be stated whether conversion is at the option of the issuer or the holder . |
| 15 | WHETHER HEROIN is at the root of this unreliability I do n't know for sure , nor am I about to proscribe the freedom — or is that stupidity — of anyone to take whatever substance they choose to take , be it alcohol , tobacco , heroin or carpet cleaner . |
| 16 | ‘ … 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 ’ . |