Example sentences of "to [be] central to " in BNC.
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1 | In this research social information , as opposed to psychiatric diagnosis , was not considered by psychiatrists to be central to their task , although they were aware of the influence of social factors on psychiatric symptomatology . |
2 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |
3 | Sometimes one , possibly two patients , appear to be central to the outbreak and should , if possible , be moved to another setting . |
4 | At the same time , Schuman ceased to be central to French foreign policy . |
5 | The idea of a chooser , a decider , who has a full capacity for rational decision and choice , seems to be central to our idea of a holder of rights … . |
6 | Points of view could be said to be central to the formal legal enterprise . |
7 | The advantage of a ‘ message ’ Christology would seem to be that , with the shift of concentration from the person of Christ to his message , we circumvent the problems which present themselves when the symbol of a male person is understood to be central to Christianity . |
8 | I call ‘ conservative ’ , for the purposes of the discussion in this chapter , Christologies which hold the maleness of Christ to be essential to his nature , and the fact that Christ was male to be central to Christianity . |
9 | Understandably , I was quite staggered and overjoyed to find , in the West Riding , very many primary schools where the creative energies of children were demonstrably seen to be central to their experience and learning . |
10 | Xorandor examines the narrative aspect of the novel by exploring the theoretical problems of story-telling from the point of view of children whose minds have been formed by their exposure to computers ; here techniques specific to narrative are shown to be central to even the most logical of sciences . |
11 | Eternal life seemed to most Christians — and therefore to most people — in the later nineteenth century to be central to their religion . |
12 | The collation of this information and its subsequent analysis is seen to be central to the procedures within the unit . |
13 | Neither the Chancellor 's speech on the Queen 's Speech nor his autumn statement , which is meant to be central to Government thinking , contained one word on the environment . |
14 | In the research project the interaction of banking and industry and its impact on industrially advanced economies is intended to be central to the investigation . |
15 | The three questions in the centre concern the proper focus of RE , attending to what religious people may consider to be central to religion : the questions of definition , integrity and truth . |
16 | The reader is constantly reminded of the two main assumptions which Petrey takes to be central to the theory : that language depends on social conventions rather than on any individual 's intentions , and that language is used to do things rather than to represent things . |