Example sentences of "important [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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31 | And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year . |
32 | Planning is more important than a plan |
33 | In 1939 nearly everyone had a direct or indirect memory of mass warfare and mindless patriotism was much less important than a conscious commitment to the idea that aggressive fascism could not be stopped by any method short of war . |
34 | Surely , she reasoned , the future of a child was more important than a promise to a man who was now dead ? |
35 | So a budgeting shortfall today was regarded as more important than an energy shortfall tomorrow . |
36 | A high level of linguistic competence is obviously an advantage but a flair for friendship is more important than an impeccable accent or a perfect lexicon . |
37 | So what we must consider is that whether a team performance is more important than an individual 's performance do n't forget that it is easy ( relatively ) to mark him out of a game compared to marking 11 men out off game . |
38 | Where we have a different point of view is the point of view that says that a general education which will train the mind erm and expand capacity for judgement and so on , erm is perhaps more important than an exact knowledge of erm some particular political science theory . |
39 | I do not entirely believe the member who said that their traditions were more important than the money . |
40 | That is not to say that the more traditional tools and methods are not in evidence in his workshop , but , true to form , he feels that the finished work is more important than the means . |
41 | The majority of bird netting is likely to be knotted ( this produces a fine and very flexible net ) or knitted , but the thickness of the thread is likely to be more important than the type of assembly . |
42 | In that respect , Willy Russell has accomplished a considerably trickier feat than Dame Edna : his Shirley Valentine is a one-woman show in which the show is more important than the one woman . |
43 | In attempting to influence political developments in Poland , the West was reduced to using precisely those instruments that the Bonn government ( and Social Democratic opposition ) is now belatedly attempting to apply to the GDR : first , a symbolic politics recognising the Church and opposition as partners no less important than the communist authorities who claim to be , but are not , identical with ‘ the state ’ and , second , the conditional offer of economic help ( politely called ‘ co-operation ’ ) as a goad to political change — neither pure ‘ carrot ’ nor simple ‘ stick ’ , but a carrot-cum-stick . |
44 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
45 | Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . |
46 | The London socialites come to seem no more important than the savages . |
47 | For example , when discussing the passage from matriliny to patriliny , Engels [ p. 119 ] echoes Morgan 's formulation in the following way:s ‘ Thus , on the one hand , in proportion as wealth increased ( as a result of the domestication of animals ) it made the man 's position in the family more important than the woman 's , and on the other hand created an impulse to exploit this strengthened position in order to overthrow , in favour of his children , the traditional order of inheritance . |
48 | Far more important than the military aspects of the angel 's costumes are the explicit references to the high social status of both Spanish colonial gentlemen and Inca royalty . |
49 | One is not a priori more important than the other . |
50 | More important than the qualifications of the artists and technicians working on the film is the creative environment in which they operate , and the way it organizes their collaborations . |
51 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
52 | I allude , of course , to the wave of middlebrow mature pop for whom the Song is more important than the Star — Wet Wet Wet , Deacon Blue , Hue and Cry , Blow Monkeys , Danny Wilson , Microdisney , etc . |
53 | It has long been the case that the fact of winning is far more important than the manner of doing so , and since they have found a winning formula they have a powerful argument for keeping it , especially now that the financial rewards are considerable . |
54 | ‘ But nothing can be more important than the Business Plan , ’ Mark insisted . |
55 | Nate could n't possibly have believed that the Turkish problem was more important than the European Plan . |
56 | Thus one social argument which might be mobilised in favour of the rule in the Attorney-General 's Reference case is that the savings of medical expenses resulting from conformity with the law are more important than the liberty of individual citizens to engage in fights . |
57 | He announced his credo unashamedly in his first editorial : ‘ We believe we are filling a publishing need only slightly less important than the one just taken care of by the Kinsey Report . ’ |
58 | In the orchestration of this criticism , and in the curbing of local aristocrats who were quite unrestrained by royal power , no single factor was more important than the veneration of saints ' shrines at a local monastery . |
59 | ‘ Ah , Wilson , ’ Miss Hawarth had said with a smile , ‘ the keeper is more important than the house and then there are your connections , you know . ’ |
60 | However small they may be , the introduction of a hierarchy makes them again more important than the interval between them . |