Example sentences of "an important [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests a possible molecular basis for the association of HLA-B53 with resistance to severe malaria , and identify LSA-1 as an important antigen for attempts to induce CTL-mediated immunity to this infectious disease . |
| 2 | For a year and a day the boy did not work and hardly ever spoke but one day when he was watching his father fashion a sword for an important chief he exclaimed " That is not the way to do it " and taking the tools soon made a sword the like of which was never seen before , and so began the famous Islay swords . |
| 3 | The Shah had repeatedly been to American during the last thirty years. ; he had been welcomed with full honours as not only an important chief of state by also a vital ally by every single president since Harry Truman . |
| 4 | It 's not that Binbrook was such an important station to warrant all this staff , but as the size of the RAF contracted more and more , Waafs were posted there from the closing satellite stations and at one point there were twelve of us . |
| 5 | In the year of the 900th anniversary of the death of Queen Margaret , who laid the foundations of the great abbey and raised the town 's status from a crude settlement to an important station on the pilgrim map , Dunfermline District Council has commissioned two important research prints from Scotland 's only historical illustrator , Jurek Putter , a St Andrews artist . |
| 6 | An important phenomenon behind recent legislation in the area of sale and supply of goods is the role of the European Community . |
| 7 | This perception found expression also in an important Audit Commission Occasional Paper ( Audit Commission , 1987 ) from which Banham 's statement quotes and which is itself a direct repetition of Lemann 's views . |
| 8 | GLA is an important substance in the body 's production of prostaglandins , which play a vital part in many of the body 's functions — including the menstrual cycle , the regulation and control of cell growth and the maintenance of normal skin . |
| 9 | Biochemical pathways are sequences of chemicals that constitute successive stages in some useful process , like the release of energy or the synthesis of an important substance . |
| 10 | It was such an important day , a day of healing , of explanation , of real dialogue between mother and daughter . |
| 11 | This really is an important day . |
| 12 | It was an important day for her . |
| 13 | Now , with news of an important day for Oxford United , a bad night for Hereford United , and a strange type of dog racing , here 's Nick Clark . |
| 14 | Mrs Taylor said Sunday was an important day for her and her family and that she also wanted to go to church . |
| 15 | ‘ This is an important day for our language and culture , ’ said Mr Macdonald . |
| 16 | ‘ This is an important day for us , ’ said Peter Donald , the Scottish League secretary . |
| 17 | As late as the middle of the seventeenth century we find , for example , that even at the age of 30 Samuel Pepys ( 1633–1703 ) , already an important government official , did not possess a watch . |
| 18 | The third policy development in 1987 was the emergence of a curious body , English Estates , as an important government agency in urban regeneration . |
| 19 | It constitutes an important work of reference . |
| 20 | Apart from The Proslogion in which he propounded his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ , Anselm wrote an important work entitled , Why did God become Man ? |
| 21 | Recently , SAVE has been to the rescue of a small but delightful Methodist chapel in a Lincolnshire village , to stop it being dismantled and shipped to the USA ; the Pavilion Theatre at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , which the local council had agreed to demolish ; and a popular Hampstead pub , Jack Straw 's Castle , which , though an important work by the architect Raymond Erith , the brewers wished to alter radically . |
| 22 | An important work relevant to many fields of study is The Dictionary of National Biography . |
| 23 | The pictures alone , however , make this an important work . |
| 24 | Just as the Barnes disputes seem closer to resolution , another Pennsylvania museum is seeking to challenge accepted practices and deaccession an important work of art . |
| 25 | This is an important work of discographical biography and a labour of love on the part of the author . |
| 26 | Mr Goto was in the market for an important work of art as part of his company 's centenary celebrations . |
| 27 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 28 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't disturb your father , Andrew , ’ Nanny would say , ‘ he 's an important man . ’ |
| 30 | It 's not the sort of thing the son of an important man should say . ’ |