Example sentences of "[art] crucial [noun sg] is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry .
2 The crucial factor is that boys and girls must be given equal choice .
3 The crucial factor is that Russia and the other republics should be eligible for macroeconomic aid on an IMF basis .
4 Oman ( 1984 , 1989 ) suggests that the crucial test is whether the arrangement involves some element of risk to the seller — and some prospect of a share in future income .
5 And finally , her particular motive for deception is surely not far to seek : the crucial consideration is that Nietzsche 's relationship with Wagner , with which the genesis of the book is bound up , was for her a sensitive issue in which her brother 's reputation was particularly at stake .
6 The crucial issue is whether this merely represents a transfer in wealth from the acquirer , or whether there is an increase in wealth overall .
7 The crucial question is whether the arbitrator 's is a typical authority , or whether the two features picked out above are peculiar to it and perhaps a few others , but are not characteristic of authorities in general .
8 The crucial question is whether it manages to liberate at least as much energy from fusions as was expended in running a particle accelerator to produce that muon in the first place .
9 While the Arts Council may survive as an advisory body , the crucial question is whether it retains a funding role : ‘ The days of the arm 's length principle are gone .
10 So the crucial question is whether , if the basic valuation is produced by an employee of a building society , any failure to exercise due care and skill can constitute maladministration .
11 The crucial question is whether it is appropriate for your Lordships to do so .
12 The crucial point is that having a great sound is one thing , but being a good subject for an article may be something else entirely .
13 But the crucial point is that the history of Christianity is completely interwoven with the history not just of this country but with that of Europe and America as a whole .
14 The crucial point is that such expressions should be warranted by conceptual and communicative purposes recognized as having point in classroom activity .
15 The crucial point is that rewards are important in determining an individual 's life-chances ; in other words , inequalities of reward are accompanied by and produce inequalities in all areas of life : conditions at work , health , housing , education , mortality , and justice .
16 The crucial point is that the non-time-related organisation requires a conceptual grasp of the content and a level of linguistic ability which allows the writer to realise the concepts successfully in the text .
17 The crucial point is that the English department was to be elevated , not so much by virtue of its importance within the institution , but because of the role it might be made to occupy in leading , coordinating , and sustaining extra-mural initiatives :
18 The crucial point is that the very potent symbol of Einstein was not a representation of the theory of relativity .
19 The crucial point is that , in most cases , group identity is expressed by the people concerned in the language of kinship .
20 The crucial point is that the structure of the bourgeois family flatly contradicted that of bourgeois society .
21 The crucial fact is that if the school is over-subscribed , the parental wishes of some parents must be defeated whatever criteria are adopted .
22 These things are expensive but the crucial thing is that both my name and the name of the RCN has been cleared . ’
23 The crucial thing is that we are talking about fees charged by the homes , not about reasonable costs .
24 The crucial difference is that a trust could be set up with a non-heir as trustee , whereas legacies remained always bound to the need for an heir to discharge them .
25 The crucial difference is that Marx emphasised the first element , while Weber emphasised the second .
26 A crucial factor is that one witness 's evidence , though plausible , may be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is accepted as being beyond doubt .
27 A crucial question is whether Britain 's small information-technology companies will ever grow big .
28 A crucial question is whether ‘ Thatcherism ’ has a distinctive position on crimes of sexual violence .
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