Example sentences of "to [be] central [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes one , possibly two patients , appear to be central to the outbreak and should , if possible , be moved to another setting .
2 Points of view could be said to be central to the formal legal enterprise .
3 The collation of this information and its subsequent analysis is seen to be central to the procedures within the unit .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The American factor and the continued strength of a spirit of religious intolerance had proved decisive in Manchester and in 1854 they were equally to be central in the failure to find a single national organisational focus for antislavery commitment .
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