Example sentences of "less important than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
| 2 | After a study of academic enterprise in the US , Matthew Bullock of Barclays Bank , concludes that specific ‘ technology transfer mechanisms ’ are less important than the willingness of universities to allow their academics to work for industry ‘ on the side ’ . |
| 3 | The question of who can sue is less important than the question of who will sue . |
| 4 | In some areas the size of the shell is less important than the thickness of the shell . |
| 5 | The guidelines include a list of entry qualifications which for the most part are similar to those granting entry to the Council 's teacher-training courses for would-be school teachers ; in that respect , they do not accord with NATFHE 's belief that formal entry requirements are less important than the achievement of terminal standards . |
| 6 | But in a pragmatist society he would have to predict whether the judges would be likely to consider his case as one in which the virtues of predictability were less important than the substance of the law , and whether , if they thought substance more important , they would think a decision for him better or worse for the community . |
| 7 | The exact chronology is , however , less important than the recording of a definite Saxon tradition , the inauguration of a new political unit . |
| 8 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 9 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
| 10 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |