Example sentences of "is essential [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place it is essential to the concept of graded tests that they should be taken by students when they are ready , from time to time throughout their school career , or indeed after school ( there is no reason why a grandmother and granddaughter should not practise side by side for their Grade 1 piano examination ) . |
| 2 | In our democratic age , that is essential to the concept of our rule of law . |
| 3 | One observation is essential to the construction of a GP box and that is the location of the vanishing point for diagonals of the squared plan grid , VPd , on the eye level . |
| 4 | They can be of great service in transmitting the Faith , even though they can never replace the personal witness which is essential to the proclamation of the full truth and value of the Christian message . |
| 5 | Western institutional theorists have concerned themselves with the problem of ensuring that the exercise of governmental power , which is essential to the realization of the values of their societies , should be controlled in order that it should not itself be destructive of the values it was intended to promote . |
| 6 | The clue to the flourishing creativity lies with phosphor chemistry , which is essential to the manufacture of fluorescent lamps . |
| 7 | Everyone knows that a Street Directory of Dublin is essential to the reading of joyce . |
| 8 | Yet an alliance between research and practice is essential to the development of good services . |
| 9 | We say that the proposed second international passenger terminal at King 's Cross is essential to the development of the north-west of England . |
| 10 | the acceptable proposition that some shared morality is essential to the existence of any society , to the unacceptable proposition that a society is identical with its morality , as that is at any given moment of its history , so that a change in its morality is tantamount to the destruction of a society . |
| 11 | The national interest demands that excise duty discrimination against spirits should be ended , both for domestic reasons and because it is essential to the Government 's negotiating position in future ECOFIN discussions . |
| 12 | In spite of apparently incompatible personalities — she is small and shy , he is large and does most of the talking — they have an empathy which is essential to the way they work , a persistent mutual pestering . |
| 13 | Provision of a strong ground line is essential to the moon effect . |
| 14 | Moisture is essential to the hair . |
| 15 | ‘ There is only one way ’ , he says to Frodo , and it is essential to the story that this should be accepted as true : the Ring can not be kept , it has power over everybody , it has to be destroyed . |
| 16 | Still , it is essential to the story that such thoughts be entertained , as indeed Gandalf also says to Pippin : ‘ If you will meddle in the affairs of Wizards , you must be prepared to think of such things ’ ( 11 , 199 ) . |
| 17 | This may be appropriate in an organisation like the Army where discipline and the carrying out of orders is essential to the success of that organisation . |
| 18 | Company Involvement — we believe the presence of senior members of the organisation is essential to the success of the process . |
| 19 | An understanding of the curriculum and the needs of different groups of pupils is essential to the success of any curriculum-related database , while an awareness of the skills required to find and use information is an important factor for any teacher setting an assignment which involves pupils in information handling . |
| 20 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 21 | As a whole this volume is an important addition to the growing Ferrier bibliography , and a book that is essential to the legion of admirers of Ferrier 's noble art . |
| 22 | It is this argument which leads Durkheim to state that crime is essential to the continuation of society . |
| 23 | That history , from one perspective , could be seen as a consistent struggle to retain Lukács ' legacy in which history , the dialectic and the totality are interdependent to the extent that each is essential to the operation of the other in the production of a Marxist science . |
| 24 | It will be necessary to create deferred shares only if there is a ratchet ( see below ) in the Articles , where conversion , as opposed to redemption , is essential to the operation of the ratchet . |
| 25 | The death of the individual is essential to the survival of the biosphere . |
| 26 | A certain element of delinquency , like a certain element of altruism , is essential to the life and health of any society . |
| 27 | TB is essential to the course . |
| 28 | Finally , we have to consider whether or not oxygen is essential to the evolution of life . |
| 29 | ‘ This stripping ’ , Eliot wrote , ‘ is essential to the art . ’ |
| 30 | The simple fact is that making the prehistoric — that is , the repressed — part of the mind conscious is a vital aspect of the further development of the ego because conscious insight into itself and its motivation is essential to the ego 's rationality and competence in administering and mastering the instinctual drives of the id . |