Example sentences of "have [be] central " in BNC.
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| 1 | This notion has been central to Conservative self-presentation from the emergence of Conservatism in its modern form in the early nineteenth century , and it has found particular favour in the writings of some of the most eloquent spokesmen of twentieth century Conservatism . |
| 2 | As I have reminded groups before now , the reality of incarnation has been central to Catholic spirituality and practice ; that is not so true of other traditions . |
| 3 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 4 | The Marquess of Lothian initiated the Country House Scheme , which has been central to the preservation of great houses and their contents . |
| 5 | It has been central to the nouveau roman 's poetics to establish a literary-historical metanarrative as a legitimizing strategy . |
| 6 | Guatemala has been Central America 's sideshow . |
| 7 | Retirement has been central to all of these , although the complexity of its impact has yet to be fully explored . |
| 8 | Reciprocity The concept of reciprocity has been central to academic studies of kinship , especially in anthropology . |
| 9 | This question in relation to pornography has been central to government commissions on the availability of pornography in Britain , the USA and elsewhere . |
| 10 | There is also progress to report in identifying immune effector mechanisms , an area in which research on schistosomiasis has been central . |
| 11 | The issue of commodity bundling has been central to a number of celebrated competition policy cases , including those involving IBM in both the United States and Europe . |
| 12 | Controlling current spending by local authorities has been central government 's major headache ever since it decided in 1961 that local government expenditure was part of public expenditure and therefore should be controlled by the Treasury . |
| 13 | In the long history of workers ' education the role of the RBs has an important place : from the early days of University Extension , through the founding of the WEA , and the development of Trade Union education , the idea of ‘ education for citizenship ’ to enable a genuinely participative and egalitarian democracy to emerge , has been central . |
| 14 | Pursuing a focused commercial strategy while effectively managing the nuclear liabilities has been central to our implementation of the Pushing the Limits strategy over the last three years . |
| 15 | Eric Lindsay , head of economics at Methodist College , has been central in organising the fair . |
| 16 | The role of bureaucracy in politics has been central to Marxist debates about the state in capitalist societies , though the details of bureaucratic structures and processes have not received the attention they deserve . |
| 17 | The model based on these two types of coherent structure — particularly the former — has been central to our understanding of turbulent boundary layers for two decades ( possibly to the neglect of other aspects ) . |
| 18 | As we shall see , this is an area which has been central to the most fundamental controversies in macroeconomics . |
| 19 | As early as the thirteenth century , powers to control the street had been central to the police mandate . |
| 20 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 21 | In a statement on July 31 the IRA said that Gow had been killed because he had been central to the formulation of British government policy decisions on Northern Ireland , including those during the hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the " shoot-to-kill " operations of 1982 , and had remained a close confidant of the Prime Minister until his death . |
| 22 | In its November 1987 Offer For Sale Eurotunnel stated that ‘ safety and security considerations have been central to the overall design of the System and the plans for its operation ’ . |
| 23 | Some of the other issues discussed in this book have been central to historical writing on South Asia which treats more traditional subjects . |
| 24 | The main producing areas have been Central Wales , north-west Wales ( Llanwrst ) , the Lake District , the Isle of Man ( Lamplugh , 1903 ) and the Southern Uplands of Scotland ( Leadhills ) . |
| 25 | A collection of essays edited by Ellen Kennedy and Susan Mendus , Women in Western Political Philosophy ( 1987 ) , presents a feminist perspective on questions that have been central to political philosophy and raises questions about the philosophical underpinning of political theory . |
| 26 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 27 | These questions have been central to recent studies and the answers may be unexpected . |
| 28 | He argues that ‘ the failure of both disputes revealed and reproduced the regional nature of management-labour relations in the industry ’ ( p. 35 ) , because ‘ miners ’ interpretations of the two disputes , and of the underlying arguments , are understood as embedded in the nature of collective social relations at work … the constitution of workplace relations has varied between coalfields and … variations in management and labour strategies have been central to this process ' ( p. 36 ) . |
| 29 | These complex relationships have been central to the fortunes of the two countries over the past three centuries . |
| 30 | Women have been central in the leadership , organisation and maintaining of these structures , dealing with health care , education , food production and distribution , the internal economy etc . |