Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] important [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor .
2 Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) .
3 The mouth of the River Exe is the largest and most important estuary for birds in the south-west peninsula of Devon and Cornwall .
4 Parental responsibility should be treated as the greatest and most important undertaking of human life , albeit the one potentially holding out the promise of the greatest happiness .
5 But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries .
6 The second and more important lack is that of any real constitutional analysis of the crisis .
7 Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous .
8 The second and more important reason is to impose liability on the vendor in the event that the assets are inadequate or defective or the vendor does not have adequate title .
9 The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world .
10 The traditional and most important essence of life was obtaining a good education , which to the black immigrants was the key to success , a way out of the ruck .
11 Even with everything mechanical working and at the right temperature , you can still unbalance the biological and most important part of the system very easily .
12 The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter .
13 The fourth and very important principle which operates in personal care is gender .
14 In my case , the first and most important candle stood for the dark forest .
15 The first and most important question to mull over as you gaze at your patch is : What is this garden for ?
16 If visiting or entertaining friends is difficult , this is the first and most important problem to be tackled , because maintaining ( or restoring ) this particular activity will do more than almost anything else to keep life in balance .
17 The first and most important change was the general introduction of cash limits .
18 Its key tenets are : 1 The customer comes first : The first and most important characteristic of total quality is the search continually to meet , and even exceed , the customer 's demands and expectations .
19 The first and most important consideration is that in the forty years since 9 August 1945 , despite the fact that all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars at one time or another , nuclear weapons have not once been used militarily .
20 The first and most important reason is that ketamine can readily induce a state of virtual helplessness , within the dose range normally taken by users , to a far greater extent than most other substances of abuse .
21 The first and most important thing is to talk to your doctor .
22 The first and most important step , therefore , was to give the orders to ensure a lessening of tension in the neck area so that the normal functioning of the Primary Control could be restored .
23 The first and most important step is to get the baby examined by a doctor , who should check for serious problems such as gastro-oesophageal reflux — acid passing from the stomach up into the gullet ( oesophagus ) , and thus causing pain — or intestinal obstruction .
24 The first and most important step is to identify the weaving category ( p. 11 ) , because this will automatically preclude those countries which do not produce , for example , nomadic or village rugs .
25 Whichever method one used , the first and most important step was to formulate objectives , the ‘ what do I want to know , why , and what can I do with the result ? ’ guiding principles for research .
26 The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month .
27 The first and least important distinction is between local and global sceptical arguments .
28 It was certainly a little depressing that the wealthiest and most important man in the area did not seem to admire her , as all the other men did .
29 Carpets are perhaps one of the biggest and most important furnishing investments in any home .
30 That 's why Save The Children is marking this seventy fifth birthday year with the biggest and most important fund raising appeal in the organisation 's history .
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