Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] at the heart " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the question whether there is any way of determining those in need of protection is at the heart of this debate , this is unlikely to be the prime determinant of professional practice . |
| 2 | The revival of industry was at the heart of Mr Lamont 's Autumn Statement . |
| 3 | The principle of proportion is at the heart of our aesthetic awareness and close to the life principle controlling plant growth . |
| 4 | Anticipating future sources of competitiveness is at the heart of successful negotiations between firms and states . |
| 5 | The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago . |
| 6 | Like Eliot 's sharply witty version of this paradox : The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part ; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer 's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart , the meditator in the short text exclaims : But the force of this metaphor of healing is lost , together with the lyrical cadences of alliteration , in the long version : This existentially known contrast between the body of death through which is encountered the possibility of life is at the heart of Christian mysticism itself experienced in playing the game of faith which renews the truth of the Incarnation . |
| 7 | The principles of number are at the heart of the universe . |
| 8 | The human egg as centre of fertility is at the heart of Sweeney Agonistes and of the rites on which it is patterned . |
| 9 | The need to define the boundaries of obedience is at the heart of Richardson 's novel . |
| 10 | Healthy relations between all involved in the leading of worship are at the heart of the matter . |
| 11 | This emphasis on worship is at the heart of the gospel itself . |