Example sentences of "to [be] an essential " in BNC.

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1 A world that was , per impossibile , purely particular , in the sense of not allowing forms or universals to be an essential component or determinant of it , would have nothing which intellect could grasp .
2 Those doubts and attacks have been allowed to return in the modern era following the dissolution of theocratic ideas that have supposed a particular religious belief to be an essential ingredient of sound political organisation .
3 The great fun was doing the pulling which seemed to be an essential part of the process .
4 For one very special class of viruses however , integration into the cell 's chromosomes appears to be an essential part of their normal life cycle .
5 In an ideal integrated scheme , cultural controls ( changes in farming habits ) and biological controls would largely supplant pesticides ; in practice , chemical control continues to be an essential component of IPM when a pest population has to be reduced rapidly to minimise financial loss .
6 The commonsense view that to proceed with care is to proceed slowly can also be reversed in high level skills , there are instances where speed seems to be an essential accompaniment of delicate discrimination ( Lacy , 1978 ) .
7 And erm fire-fighting but her manicure is perfect Home front hands can still be charming , tangee lipstick for beauty on duty Now foundation garments were considered to be an essential part of the trim active image which it was every woman 's duty to project .
8 The difficulty of hitting a balance between total rigidity and disciplined freedom was recognized , but was seen to be an essential aim .
9 One of the most vocal critics of reorganization , an officer of more than 20 years ' standing , deplored what seemed to him to be an essential transformation in pollution control work .
10 The Other Woman has a category to herself in Silhouette 's construction of the necessary elements of the romance novel , an indication of the extent to which she is considered to be an essential ingredient : ‘ The Other Woman Usually means over sophisticated , well groomed .
11 Espionage continued to be an essential and sometimes very important ingredient in the conduct of international relations .
12 He could also reduce the solemn to the apparently trivial ( ‘ nothing in this life is wholly serious ’ ) , lending often to his ordinary conversation , as to his poetry , that element of surprise which Elgar Allan Poe held to be an essential ingredient of art itself .
13 The deputy chief executive of London East TEC wrote in an article : ’ LETEC is proving to be an essential catalyst to the economic rejuvenation of the London East area .
14 The fact that full screen video has become an apparent norm , imposed by our experience of television , cinema and — amongst a select few — videodisc , does not mean it has to be an essential ingredient of interactive multimedia .
15 This glut of contracts can also be partly explained by the actions of some banks supporting their national exchanges , and by some governments ' policies through their tax legislation and regulation actions which are aimed at establishing a presence in what is thought to be an essential requirement for each country 's financial centre .
16 Royal favor ceased to be an essential condition for forming the Government .
17 The smith was a key man under the old farm-horse economy ; and the smithy in addition to being an essential and regular place of call was also a kind of exchange for horse and farming news in the district .
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