Example sentences of "essential to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , we hare unhappy that HMG has recently felt unable to support the early conclusion of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty , since we believe — as does the Vatican 's representative at the United Nations — that a halt to nuclear testing is essential to the successful prolongation of the NPT and thus to progress in preventing nuclear proliferation .
2 Hayek points to the fact that many social institutions which are essential to the successful pursuit of our aims are the result of customs , habits , and practices which are not the product of design or invention and which , although they govern thought and action , are often not brought to consciousness .
3 Thus Titmuss has argued : ‘ The aims and content of social policy , both in peace and in war , are thus determined — at least to a substantial extent-by how far the co-operation of the masses is essential to the successful prosecution of war . ’
4 The aims and context of social policy , both in peace and war , are … determined — at least to a substantial extent — by how far the co-operation of the masses is essential to the successful prosecution of the war .
5 Philips have always regarded indigenous publishing as essential to the successful launch of CD-I in Europe .
6 This information is essential to the successful writing of a report , so ask for it .
7 Both these main suites show the combination of ease and comfort which was beginning to be considered essential to the perfect home of the Twenties .
8 A clean healthy , pollution-free environment is absolutely essential to the ongoing development of tourism ’ .
9 With Richter , one is left with the impression that there is not one single note ( whatever the rate at which it might emerge ) which is n't absolutely essential to the overall design , and there are pitifully few Liszt performances of which that can truthfully be said !
10 Although the CF-200 power amp might seem less glamorous , it 's equally essential to the overall sound and , what 's more , it leads an intriguing double life .
11 Similarly , though he insisted on doctrine which he considered essential to the Anglican faith , he did not require conformity on non-essentials , and also believed that there were divine mysteries on which it was idle to speculate .
12 But in such a modern industrialized state it was not long before many groups realized that their role in the social and economic system made their co-operation and support essential to the Communist Party .
13 It became necessary to develop a number of change-management organizations to cope with the various matrices and to move the company toward some of the major changes that were essential to the total transformation .
14 But if testing is not absolutely essential to the modern bomb-builder , why not abandon it anyway — as a gesture of goodwill to the have-nots ?
15 The existence of money is essential to the modern system of production which depends upon the granting of credit to those who undertake the manufacture of goods in anticipation of sales .
16 Intelligence is essential to the modern sportsmen ; there are so many losses and benefits to be weighed up that a sportsman needs a rational , calculating mind .
17 Yet the first crude tools our ancestors made — from flakes of rock , bits of timber and other natural materials around them — were the precursors of the computers , turbines , aeroplanes and all the other pieces of machinery essential to the modern world .
18 Water is essential to the chemical industry , it is used as a raw material ; for cooling ; for steam , power and heat ; and for washing products and plant .
19 But the Hui was essential to the orderly running of the ASP contests .
20 William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable .
21 In desperation the king and his advisers persuaded the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin and six other bishops to subscribe to a declaration that the article of the Great Charter regarding ‘ evil customs ’ was not to be construed as abolishing any customary laws essential to the continued existence of the forest .
22 The former was essential to the evolutionary process , as individuals competed for resources .
23 A sound knowledge of law is as essential to the professional caterer as is a knowledge of business management and the fundamental skills of the profession .
24 Power is also essential to the endless readjustments that members make to ensure the survival of the firm .
25 Each of these three features is essential to the narrow sense of ‘ elite ’ , and Meisel 's schema , deceptively simple in appearance , in fact constitutes a problem for elitist theory .
26 Most are from the UK , but foreign associates are also essential to the international role of the Centre .
27 We must recognise that many people who earn relatively modest wages and who are essential to the rural economy will be the first to be put at risk by those proposals .
28 Deprived of the fertilisers so essential to the poor soil , German farms were beginning to conform to the law of diminishing returns .
29 He singled out for particular attention the concepts of cause and effect , which we use and take for granted in everyday life , which are central to scientific study , and which were also essential to the theological argument from causality .
30 After all , in the discussions to which I have just referred , Freud maintains that essential to the manic state is a temporary fusion between the ego and the superego and a resulting reduction in tension which allows a joyful release of the energies previously bound up in their antagonism .
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