Example sentences of "[prep] stake was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If what was at stake was the existence of ICI , rather than its ownership , then concern would be understandable . |
| 2 | In practical terms what was at stake was the need to close the price scissors , as Trotsky termed it , that is , the disparity between the high prices for industrially produced consumer goods and means of production , compared to the prevailing world market prices , and the prices being paid for agricultural produce . |
| 3 | Not that there was ever any question of the western democracies intervening directly in the fighting ; what was at stake was the right of the Republic 's legally elected government to purchase arms , ammunition and military supplies from its fellow democracies . |
| 4 | What was at stake was the renovation of modes for achieving freely-given cultural consent to a renewed leadership ; a leadership capable of entertaining the world of " men " on terms of only apparent equality . |
| 5 | TOO much at stake was the message from both camps after an edgy Bass Cup quarter-final which Ards front man Harry McCourt almost settled four minutes from time . |
| 6 | In fact both Eisenhower and Dulles privately accepted the absurdity of a European war if all that was truly at stake was the status of East Germany and Berlin . |