Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at the heart [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their post-war reconciliation lay at the heart of its foundations and the Franco-German axis is still its ‘ motor ’ . |
| 2 | According to the Social Purity Alliance , founded in 1873 , male vice lay at the heart of the problem of immorality . |
| 3 | The railway station lay at the heart of all these developments . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What I did not realise then — but what I would discover the moment I embarked on my journey to those front doors — was that I had touched upon the essence of the Arab–Israeli war ; that while the existence of the Palestinians and their demand for a nation lay at the heart of the Middle East crisis , it was the contradiction inherent in the claims to ownership of the land of Palestine — the ‘ homeland ’ of the Jews in Balfour 's declaration — which generated the anger and fear of both Palestinians and Israelis . |
| 7 | For Reich , therefore , the petit bourgeois partriarchal family lay at the heart of fascism . |