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

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1 Throughout the 1950s , '60s and '70s these restrictions were reduced or became a less important hindrance to the City 's international operations , but they remained partially effective until they were completely abolished in 1979 .
2 On the safe disposal of nuclear weapons — a critically important matter to the House and elsewhere — NATO made a general offer of co-operation in December .
3 Although triticale will never replace wheat , it is a vitally important addition to the armoury needed to defeat famine , precisely because it is so much better adapted to the marginal lands on which so many of the poor and hungry live .
4 The most important exception to the functionalist incorporation of the sociology of knowledge was the comprehensive review of the field by Werner Stark .
5 Here , perhaps , is the most important clue to the demise of the dinosaurs .
6 The most important start to a radio programme , of a newspaper article , of a television programme , is the start .
7 At the end of the tale , the wife underlines this aspect of the merchant 's lifestyle by suggesting that her spending on clothing serves the same purpose : This understanding provides a fundamentally important gloss to the moot , " must " , of the lines spoken , apparently by a female speaker , very early on in the Shipman 's Tale : Both the merchant and the monk in the tale operate by borrowing money on credit in order to make profitable purchases .
8 And a particularly important strand to the style was the emphasis on facts and data gathering , rather than conceptualization , to good decision-making ; it therefore had a tendency to place greater trust in administrative bodies than courts .
9 One might have expected the discipline most closely connected with the past to make a peculiarly important contribution to the development of the social sciences , but in fact history as an academic specialisation was of peculiarly little help to them .
10 Another initially important barrier to the spread of appliance use was the limited capacity on the consumers ' side of the terminals .
11 Fox hunting makes a very important contribution to the control of foxes and should be allowed to continue .
12 Despite this , Cureton has made a very important contribution to the study of poetic rhythm which should set the tone for rhythmic analysis for some time to come .
13 The nurse should also remember that the theatre staff make a very important contribution to the care of surgical patients ( Chapter 4 ) .
14 The hospitals themselves make a very important contribution to the care of patients in the community .
15 Bankers , accountants , commercial and public services , and advisory services all provide a very important contribution to the farming sector but all this sound advice could come to little or nothing if the human factor , that is the farmer or his family , could not translate that advice into practice on the farm .
16 The calculations in ‘ How conservation will bankrupt the conservationists ’ ( This week , 10 February , p 357 ) miss out a very important cost to the farmer .
17 One issue is that of loyalty — this is a very important theme to the play , especially with regard to the actions of Eddie Carboni .
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