Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [prep] the heart " in BNC.

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1 A second water wheel is in the heart of the main building , this being a smaller one producing around six horse power .
2 This irony is at the heart of the British Museum 's witty and challenging exhibition , ‘ Fake ?
3 Having a strategy which is both long and short term is at the heart of the Society 's activities .
4 Effective liaison is at the heart of LX philosophy : effective liaison inter se ( Networking/cohesion/coordination ) , effective liaison with/through all manner of UK organisations with which the network maintains contact : CBI , BOTB , Chambers of Commerce , Language and Export Associations , DES , Regional Pickup Offices and all associated initiatives ( e.g. , LENS , TOURISM & other LCPs , TAPS , Open Learning Centres , LINGUA , The Pickup Europe Unit ) plus the educational sector .
5 And directed rather than aimless living is at the heart of Christian discipleship .
6 The subject of operator licensing is at the heart of the law governing the activities of all hauliers .
7 Anticipating future sources of competitiveness is at the heart of successful negotiations between firms and states .
8 The principle of proportion is at the heart of our aesthetic awareness and close to the life principle controlling plant growth .
9 I believe still that Britain 's place is at the heart of Europe , although every time that puffed-up functionary , M.
10 Shame is at the heart of much of the grieving which women experience when men leave them .
11 ‘ … the notion of value within science is at the philosophical heart of scientific administration , just as truth is at the heart of the practice of science ’ .
12 The lecture room is in the heart of the International Centre for brewing and distilling at the Heriot Watt , the only such facility in the UK .
13 The organ is at the heart of the musical life of most churches , although other instruments , including the piano and electric keyboards , are increasingly being used .
14 Second , differentiation theory as developed here envisages no mechanism for generating acquired equivalence , whereas secondary generalization between two stimuli on the basis of their both having associations with some other , common event is at the heart of the mediation theory .
15 But there 's another reason why continuous news is at the heart of the information part of the Charter Review document .
16 Good teamwork is at the heart of BP 's revival plan .
17 Let me offer you a quote " I believe that the voluntary movement is at the heart of our social welfare provision .
18 Her role is at the heart , the core of the civilisation .
19 It is well to share this perception that learning is at the heart of development because , even after nearly three decades of activities in the NHS , development is still associated by many managers with ‘ going on courses ’ .
20 But here the main action of digitalis is on the heart , and the removal of excess water is a consequence of improving the circulation of blood and the transport of water .
21 Alghero is at the heart of some of Sardinia 's most attractive coastline .
22 The mechanism of the ‘ waiting list ’ worked in this way in The Netherlands during the twenty-five years up to 1975 ( Rutherford 1986 ) and the logic of rationing scarce custodial space is at the heart of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission .
23 Like Eliot 's sharply witty version of this paradox : The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part ; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer 's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart , the meditator in the short text exclaims : But the force of this metaphor of healing is lost , together with the lyrical cadences of alliteration , in the long version : This existentially known contrast between the body of death through which is encountered the possibility of life is at the heart of Christian mysticism itself experienced in playing the game of faith which renews the truth of the Incarnation .
24 The Psychiatrist , Dr William Glasser , author of " Reality Therapy " and " Control Theory " holds that the search for unconditional love is at the heart of addictive disease .
25 The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago .
26 Mutuality is at the heart of the Godhead , ‘ the divine litany , the Father to Son to Spirit communication that is going on in the life of God himself . ’
27 Oxford Youth Theatre is at the heart of Pegasus Theatre and is for 14–25 year olds living in Oxfordshire .
28 Size is at the heart of it .
29 But one must remember that the divergent reading of the Christian myth by Reformation and Counter-Reformation is at the heart of the religious as opposed to the rough interpretation of the conflict .
30 The human egg as centre of fertility is at the heart of Sweeney Agonistes and of the rites on which it is patterned .
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