Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] at the heart " in BNC.

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1 Militant feminists pointed out that sexual antagonism lay at the heart of the suffrage struggle and could never be resolved within the discourse of political liberalism .
2 Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) .
3 According to the Social Purity Alliance , founded in 1873 , male vice lay at the heart of the problem of immorality .
4 For Reich , therefore , the petit bourgeois partriarchal family lay at the heart of fascism .
5 Their post-war reconciliation lay at the heart of its foundations and the Franco-German axis is still its ‘ motor ’ .
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