Example sentences of "[adv] important than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
| 2 | After a study of academic enterprise in the US , Matthew Bullock of Barclays Bank , concludes that specific ‘ technology transfer mechanisms ’ are less important than the willingness of universities to allow their academics to work for industry ‘ on the side ’ . |
| 3 | The question of who can sue is less important than the question of who will sue . |
| 4 | In some areas the size of the shell is less important than the thickness of the shell . |
| 5 | The guidelines include a list of entry qualifications which for the most part are similar to those granting entry to the Council 's teacher-training courses for would-be school teachers ; in that respect , they do not accord with NATFHE 's belief that formal entry requirements are less important than the achievement of terminal standards . |
| 6 | The degree to which any particular development is exclusively attributable to the project remains a moot point , but in our view this is less important than the degree to which the project complemented and extended existing and coincidental developments , and in this respect the project has been most successful . |
| 7 | But in a pragmatist society he would have to predict whether the judges would be likely to consider his case as one in which the virtues of predictability were less important than the substance of the law , and whether , if they thought substance more important , they would think a decision for him better or worse for the community . |
| 8 | The exact chronology is , however , less important than the recording of a definite Saxon tradition , the inauguration of a new political unit . |
| 9 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
| 10 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 11 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
| 12 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 13 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 14 | And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year . |
| 15 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 16 | Surely , she reasoned , the future of a child was more important than a promise to a man who was now dead ? |
| 17 | In this , nothing is more important than a core of energetic teachers with an interest and commitment to such related trends as those of RBL , study skills , information handling and integrated thematic approaches . |
| 18 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |
| 19 | Coming from a country where the use of the appropriate word is more important than a gesture in daily life , both choreographers have resolved that words must be replaced by gestures within the choreographic design . |
| 20 | Simple accounting systems are no longer adequate or appropriate for monitoring and evaluating job performance : tasks are intertwined and interdependent , and the quality of work is often more important than the quantity of work . |
| 21 | For me nothing could be more important than the scandal of world poverty in the late 20th Century . |
| 22 | A more viable approach accepts the on-going nature of educational change — the journey is more important than the destination in the sense that one is real and the other never more than a shifting image . |
| 23 | The sediment geochemistry , which will be discussed in full elsewhere , implies that erosion of subsoil ( fraction c in Fig. 2 ) , possibly by gullying , was more important than the removal of fine weathered topsoil ( fraction a ) . |
| 24 | But time-wise the gap between them may well be much more important than the time-span within them . |
| 25 | In this area , the message is more important than the medium of communication . |
| 26 | Even more important than the size of the type , though , is the amount of leading that is inserted between the lines . |
| 27 | What is to be avoided is the point-scoring conflict that develops between groups who see their relative success and status vis-a-vis their neighbours as being more important than the pursuit of the common good . |
| 28 | A national survey of teachers ' attitudes to equal opportunities found that men were more likely to be opposed to promoting equal opportunities than women , but that differences in subject taught were more important than the sex of the teacher in determining his or her attitude . |
| 29 | The total dose given is probably more important than the frequency of dosing . |
| 30 | But the techniques discussed in this book are more important than the frequency of their use would suggest , for a number of reasons . |