Example sentences of "be at heart " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it has influenced both Realism and Idealism , while seeming to commentators ( including ourselves ) to be at heart a stricter version of Realism itself . |
| 2 | Changez , being at heart a traditional Muslim , explained the teachings of the Koran on this subject to her , and then , when words were not sufficient to convince her , he tried to give her a whack . |
| 3 | The studies had shown these suddenly visible ‘ informals ’ were at heart tiny capitalist individualists . |
| 4 | They will have to prove to the Society that at least 15 minutes of their music has been played each year — fine enough for those who write lengthy pieces , but much more difficult for those who are at heart and in practice miniaturists . |
| 5 | Finally , though all drivers are at heart egotists and publicity-seekers ( it is part of the game ) , James always played his life right out in the open : sex life , life style and all . |
| 6 | His argument deploys the old jargon of authenticity , now combined with the jargon of otherness ; despite his Hegelian framework , Scruton deploys this jargon as an exalted metaphor which does little more than bestow a spurious profundity on a normative sexual politics which is at heart timid , conservative , and deeply ignorant . |
| 7 | But if Mr Major is at heart opposed to greater union , Britain 's policy is likely to be affected by the institutional pressures of Whitehall , which has over the years committed itself to the pro-European line . |
| 8 | The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience . |
| 9 | At a time when there is such disaffection from socialism among many thinking people it is ironic to see the Christian churches attempting to accommodate themselves to what is at heart a devilish religion and ideology . |
| 10 | Having failed to get the Europeans ' agreement on a course of action , Warren Christopher , America 's secretary of state , is back to what the Bush administration was saying 18 months ago : Yugoslavia is at heart a European problem . |
| 11 | Ethical socialism , which is at heart a political expression of common decencies , collapsed amazingly quickly in the face of the simple ideological certainties espoused by a new generation of Marxist thinkers and politicians . |
| 12 | And , though I believe she is at heart a sensible girl , she might be driven to do something silly . |
| 13 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 14 | I realized just what a macho I was at heart . |
| 15 | Although he was promoted to begin his search for Troy because of an obscure literary reference to the lost city , he was at heart doing the same thing as modern detectorists ; albeit , some might say , at a more scholarly level — searching for something lost and using his wits to find it . |
| 16 | On his dignity , Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart . |
| 17 | Perhaps because Benedict was at heart honest and true , whereas this man … |