Example sentences of "important [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was the bulk of the time devoted to the important or the trivial agenda items ? ’ |
| 2 | This will be important where the resources are vital for the well being of a subject 's dependent young ( see also Cheney 1978 ; Wrangham 1977 ) . |
| 3 | In its Memorandum , circulated at the start of the revision process , the United States Government argued that ‘ Letters rogatory are a useful but scarcely perfect technique for securing evidence from persons abroad ’ and listed a number of limitations of the technique , limitations which were especially important where the two legal systems involved differed in their practice . |
| 4 | It is , however , much more important where the health authority is the main purchaser of community services — for example , in services for mental health , particularly in those for people with long term and severe mental illness and complex needs . |
| 5 | Technological influences may be important where the plant or machinery is old , or where new technology is unsuccessful . |
| 6 | This is important where the cold supply comes directly from the mains ( as it usually does in a kitchen ) and the hot water comes from the storage cistern . |
| 7 | This is particularly important where the sample is expensive and only very small amounts are available . |
| 8 | This is particularly important where the syndication partner or partners are to be offered a position on the board . |
| 9 | Such compromises are particularly important where the parties are embarking on the long-term and complicated relationship required for the supply of a turnkey system . |
| 10 | It is understood that SFA regards an agreement as in writing for this purpose even if its terms are set out in a terms of business letter accepted merely by conduct ( which is especially important where the intermediary is not a private customer ) . |
| 11 | As the views of parents as consumers become increasingly important so the need for sensitivity towards their views becomes sharper . |
| 12 | I do not entirely believe the member who said that their traditions were more important than the money . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The London socialites come to seem no more important than the savages . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One is not a priori more important than the other . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ But nothing can be more important than the Business Plan , ’ Mark insisted . |
| 28 | Nate could n't possibly have believed that the Turkish problem was more important than the European Plan . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |