Example sentences of "lies at the heart " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 2 | It is this contract , which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel , that lies at the heart of present difficulties . |
| 3 | Chauvinism , local and national , lies at the heart of hooliganism and England fans seem to find in foreigners a convenient target fur a vague resentment at Britain 's diminished place in the world . |
| 4 | Valuation lies at the heart of all takeovers , however they are financed . |
| 5 | The Council 's thirteenth-century oath , ‘ You will in all things to be moved , treated and debated in Council , faithfully declare your Mind and Opinion , according to your Heart and Conscience ; and will keep secret all Matters committed and revealed unto you , ’ lies at the heart of the British culture of official secrecy , and the enigma of monarchy remains the secret from which all other secrets flow . |
| 6 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 7 | It lies at the heart of our philosophy . |
| 8 | The creation of a modernised democracy therefore lies at the heart of all our proposals . |
| 9 | Germany lies at the heart of Europe and thus epitomises it . |
| 10 | Negation — the refusal of the administrative rationality of the bourgeois Enlightenment — lies at the heart of Adorno 's project , and at the heart of the whole notion of critique and critical theory . |
| 11 | Stocked with a Loch Leven strain of brown trout , this excellent game fishery lies at the heart of one of Scotland 's most important nature reserves . |
| 12 | The job description lies at the heart of good recruitment and selection practice . |
| 13 | In the course of his enquiry Kerrigan meets the victim 's American partner , Ingrid Jessner ( Frances McDormand ) and their complex relationship lies at the heart of the film . |
| 14 | Harnoncourt ( ) , on the other hand , is let down by the unpredictability of his choral forces , and Gardiner ( ) is all sheen and polish , but misses the sense of the ceremonial which lies at the heart of his this most perfect of all choral masterpieces . |
| 15 | It is the attempt to examine some of these interdisciplinary intersections that lies at the heart of this text . |
| 16 | It has created 1,900 jobs but during the same period over 800 existing jobs have been lost in an area which lies at the heart of three parliamentary constituencies with some of the highest unemployment rates in Britain . |
| 17 | An explanation of the contradiction between these two themes , the seeming failure of the courts as shown by the consistent and convincing allegations of widespread perjury , and their seeming success as demonstrated by their immense popularity , lies at the heart of this chapter . |
| 18 | Conflict lies at the heart of politics ’ ( J.D.B. Miller , 1962 , p.14 ) . |
| 19 | There is no question that proper maintenance of goods vehicles lies at the heart of the licensing system . |
| 20 | Frustration lies at the heart of many of the arguments , squabbles and difficulties which families experience . |
| 21 | Indeed if we recall Dworkin 's own formulation of the principle of political equality which lies at the heart of his master-principle of equal concern and respect it would appear to support the criticisms just advanced . |
| 22 | They are more fundamentally divided by their disparate conceptions of the human individual — a fact which lies at the heart of their views of explanation . |
| 23 | The argument over decentralisation will probably dominate political debate in the future , because it lies at the heart of the Tamil issue . |
| 24 | Associativity provides a cellular analogue of classical conditioning , and is an implicit property of the Hebb synapse , the computing element that lies at the heart of the current interest in neural computation . |
| 25 | Although the campaigns in which Mrs Whitehouse and her associates have been involved during this period may , on the surface , seem particularly disparate and eclectic , if one looks below the surface — as Tracey and Morrison have done particularly thoroughly — then it is the diminishing influence of the Church in moral issues that lies at the heart of NVALA action and concern . |
| 26 | Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc . |
| 27 | Indeed Tivoli — who 's software already lies at the heart of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment and Unix International 's distributed vision of the future , Atlas — has already agreed to make WizDom compliant with the Object Management Group Request Broker specifications under its agreement with SunSoft Inc . |
| 28 | It is essential not only to the establishment of unconditional authority but also because the lack of any foundational purpose lies at the heart of his distinction between civil and enterprise association . |
| 29 | Yet the importance attached to this scheme of distributive justice by advocates of choice theory encourages them to ignore the contradiction which we noticed above between the liberal ideal of individual autonomy and the moral paternalism of the principle that promises ought to be kept which lies at the heart of their theory of contract . |
| 30 | The CSA 1985 , which is by far the most important piece of legislation , in that it lies at the heart of anti-insider dealing regulation in the UK , outlines the substantive elements of insider dealing offences . |