Example sentences of "was at the forefront " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip was at the forefront of this development . |
| 2 | In February this year , Dai Qing was at the forefront of the campaign to stop the Yangtze River Three Gorges Dam Project . |
| 3 | The party 's candidate , Dr Laurence Kennedy , 43 — a hospital consultant whose family was held at gunpoint last November by Republican terrorists who broke into their Holywood home — was at the forefront of a lengthy battle to force the Conservative hierarchy into allowing Northern Ireland 's Tories to campaign officially for the party of government . |
| 4 | The Oxford group was at the forefront of X-ray crystallography , a technique for deducing atomic architecture from the way X-rays are scattered . |
| 5 | During the years when the elephant jibe was rife , microbial genetics was at the forefront of molecular biology . |
| 6 | For probably the first time since 1967 , homosexuality was at the forefront of public debate , resulting in moments of real visibility and intervention . |
| 7 | The Conservative government 's 1988 housing reforms contained several proposals aimed at rejuvenating the private rented sector , after the years in which the promotion of home-ownership was at the forefront of housing policy . |
| 8 | Moreover , both these leaders served immensely long political apprenticeships before finally winning independence ; Jinnah was at the forefront of Indian politics for nearly 40 years before he got his Pakistan ; Nehru was hailed as the Crown prince of Indian nationalism over 20 years before he was able to keep his tryst with destiny . |
| 9 | Alice waited until after Jules had departed before raising the subject that was at the forefront of her mind . |
| 10 | For the first ten years of its existence AEA drove forward all aspect of nuclear power in the UK , and when the Windscale AGR was started up in 1962 it was at the forefront of reactor design . |
| 11 | Let me indicate the European Community declaration of 13 November , of which our support was at the forefront . |
| 12 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 13 | Sainsbury 's is the only retailer to use ‘ price per pint ’ unit ticketing and was at the forefront of multi-pack development in the UK . |