Example sentences of "important [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ownership ( in terms of the receiving account ) of the message can also be established automatically , and this may be important where authentication or time stamping is a crucial issue , as in commercial Electronic Data Interchange ( EDI ) , where orders are placed internationally by subscribing companies via an electronic network . |
| 2 | The choice of subsection can also be important where odours arise from a works registered under The Alkali , etc. , Works Regulation Act 1906 as amended . |
| 3 | Questions on data availability are likely to be particularly important where users are heavily dependent on secondary sources . |
| 4 | Ease of use , Mr Rosenbaum admits , still requires some work but ‘ we are working hard to establish a common ‘ log off ’ — important where billing is by the minute ! |
| 5 | This is particularly important where interview panels are made up of people who do not normally work together , and also where there are a lot of people who will take correspondingly longer to learn to work as a team . |
| 6 | The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats . |
| 7 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 8 | But the economy is still more important than psychology : in Russia , we already have a capitalist economy , which makes the Russian language essential . |
| 9 | Age is the most important single influence over whether people are using credit currently — even more important than income . |
| 10 | The conformation should reflect the breed 's dual-purpose nature , and quality is more important than size . |
| 11 | Other factors can cause lung cancer but they are much less important than smoking . |
| 12 | It was the beginning of a move away from the belief that " faith is more important than competence " . |
| 13 | Water quality is more important than water chemistry . |
| 14 | Elsewhere — as in the Jura — corals are more important than rudists and usually it is only a reef limestone in the broadest Gallic sense of that term ; that is to say , a massive limestone without bedding planes and commonly recrystallised . |
| 15 | Friendship is more important than mountaineering , and so for their sakes I told them they 'd done very well and we turned back to the prospect of a more leisurely Sunday afternoon , with colour supplements , cats , coffee and carpets to lie on . |
| 16 | I will accept letters from any male 16+ , 6ft+.I consider personality more important than looks . |
| 17 | By contrast socialism reverses the priorities : control is more important than freedom ; and control extends to the whole of the economy , with concessions to freedom being minimal . |
| 18 | Polymorphisms of the genes encoding enzymes involved in the metabolism of collagen , such as the collagenases and their inhibitors , or genes controlling the transcription of collagen may ultimately prove to be more important than polymorphisms of the collagen genes themselves in determining individual susceptibility to the fibrotic effect of alcohol . |
| 19 | Language development is more important than vocabulary building and offering dauntingly-high standards of written and spoken language . |
| 20 | Style has become more important than substance . |
| 21 | Are wealth and power more important than love ? |
| 22 | Representative Lee H. Hamilton of Indiana , who co-chaired the congressional joint investigation of the Iran-contra affair , declared that those hearings , because they affected current US foreign policy , were more important than questions of individual criminal liability . |
| 23 | Some working-class groups are the same , able to have a knees-up in a pub , sing in a bus or appear on panel games on television in which they laugh loudly , show disappointment openly and accept the idea that luck is more important than knowledge . |
| 24 | Einstein noted that imagination is more important than knowledge . |
| 25 | His story was obviously more important than Joseph de Jussieu 's — or mine . |
| 26 | Personal relationships are more important than technique an productivity . |
| 27 | Although much less important than consumption in aggregate demand , investment has , through the multiplier , a significant effect on National Income , and is the most volatile element in aggregate demand . |
| 28 | She had no idea how long she stayed there , simply gazing into the beautiful sea-blue eyes which had become more important than life itself to her , but everything she saw there somehow made all of her doubts , all of her fears just slide away , leaving her lighter of heart than she could ever remember being . |
| 29 | Bill Shankly was only joking when he said football was more important than life and death . |
| 30 | He mentioned stuff about his family … and how football was nt more important than life or death ( Shankly ) . |