Example sentences of "to [be] fundamental to " in BNC.

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1 Beholden to an anatomically derived , heterosexually structured , and all-embracing dualism , such theories could only conceive of homosexuality as a disavowal of that very difference which is assumed to be fundamental to social , psychic , and sexual organization .
2 This state of affairs seems to be fundamental to all cracks existing in a stretched material .
3 I want to stress this connection between searching for home and finding a tongue , a writing voice , because I believe it to be fundamental to your own writing development .
4 This fact we believe to be fundamental to our understanding of how he will learn ; he will learn language through an interaction between the efforts of his own brain and events in the outside world .
5 It is this concept which ISS held to be fundamental to increasing the commitment and achievement of pupils who now underachieve , especially many working-class pupils .
6 In the previous chapter it was pointed out that both classical and neoclassical criminology had already incorporated some principles that were to be fundamental to positivism : classical criminology had insisted on practical crime control rather than retributive desert as the aim of punishment , and neoclassicism had allowed for the principle at least of ‘ determinants ’ of crime .
7 Criticism of those who see concretion to be fundamental to religion may be quite beside the point .
8 There is no uniform or objective way of reporting events in all their detail , exactly as they happen in the real world ; the structure of each language highlights , and to a large extent preselects , certain areas which are deemed to be fundamental to the reporting of any experience .
9 If one side , say the antimissile jamming device , pulled too far ahead in the design race , the other side , the missile in this case , would simply cease to be used and manufactured : it would go ‘ extinct ’ Far from being paradoxical like Alice 's original example , the Red Queen effect in its arms-race context turns out to be fundamental to the very idea of progressive advancement .
10 The Arrangements document suggests that the concepts which will be studied in the Short Courses will be ones which ‘ contribute to beliefs and values held to be fundamental to our society .
11 That has to be fundamental to our relationship , but it does n't mean I do n't care . ’
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