Example sentences of "[noun] were central to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If discipline and religion were central to the BB philosophy , so too was friendship — it was the Trojan horse in which ‘ influence ’ hid , awaiting its opportunity . |
| 2 | Headteachers were central to this school management process : making day-to-day decisions , advising the LEA ( both officers and councillors ) , motivating their staff , supervising the administration and organisation within the school and ensuring that educational priorities were the basis of this management process . |
| 3 | Catholicism as an ideology and the Church as an institution were central to the strength of Spanish conservatism both before and during the Republic , thanks to the power not only of school , pulpit and press , but also of a large and comprehensive network of church-sponsored social , professional and farmers ' organizations within which much of the Catholic population was enmeshed . |
| 4 | The nature of the Church and its tradition were central to the unfinished business from Vatican I ; Modernism and the Roman reaction to it had left serious questions about the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible and about the development of doctrine ; the Liturgical Movement was already revealing both the need for major pastoral renewal and a vision of what its fruits could be , not merely inside the Catholic Church but also in its ecumenical relations . |
| 5 | ‘ The confidential papers I have seen demonstrate that what were called various tax benefits were central to negotiations . |
| 6 | He played a vital role because the Lords were central to Unionist tactics and because the only alternative leaders there — Selborne or Curzon — had each alienated some Unionist peers by their actions in 1911 . |
| 7 | The public choice approach suggested that coalitions and rent-seeking were central to understanding this . |
| 8 | Because expensive capital equipment and the attainment of a rapid through-put of production were central to this development , ‘ the craft skill and judgement of the workers had to be as much as possible superseded , as did the control of workers over the pace of work ’ ( Lazonick , 1983 , p. 112 ) . |