Example sentences of "[vb infin] at the heart of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anca Petrescu 's model was of a palace which would stand at the heart of a new city . |
| 2 | ‘ Trade union involvement must remain at the heart of the party but it must be based far more on individual choice and decision rather than through the exercise of a block vote , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 4 | I predicted that a dramatic event would soon strike at the heart of the Royal Family . |
| 5 | Germany does once again lie at the heart of Europe . |
| 6 | This involved what were described as ‘ initial forgings for the pressure vessel ’ — the 36-foot-high steel cylinder which would lie at the heart of the reactor — as well as other basic equipment . |
| 7 | There is still , too , about the whole exercise , something of the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ : a sense that , for all the subject reports , and statutory orders , and non-statutory guidance , there is nothing at the centre : no clear vision of the values that should lie at the heart of a national system of education . |
| 8 | Indeed , the results of recent research suggest that abnormalities of prostaglandin metabolism may lie at the heart of the majority of the chronic degenerative diseases — defects in particular enzymes giving rise to different aspects of chronic disease . |
| 9 | It is the fragment that will lie at the heart of your novel . |
| 10 | Not only does this lie at the heart of current government policies on higher education , but a good deal of empirical work has been done on it , particularly on the relationship between higher education and initial employment . |
| 11 | It must also lie at the heart of all CCW 's policy objectives . |
| 12 | In the shift from 1975 to 1990 away from " concerns about equity and fairness and a concentration on more practical and immediate questions of efficiency and relevance " , discussions have to " lie at the heart of the democratic debate between and within the parties , and a constant flow of messages , coded and uncoded , ensures that the discussion is never far below the surface " ( Maclure 1990:14 ) . |
| 13 | Archive sources have very special qualities , and should therefore lie at the heart of any attempt to use primary evidence in the history classroom . |