Example sentences of "[adv] more important [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FSA has produced a document on safe terracing , which will be circulated next week and how entry and exit points to standing areas are perhaps more important than the terracing itself . |
| 2 | And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year . |
| 3 | Often there was a marked persistence of the traditional tendency to regard external polish and savoir-faire , good appearance and manners , as much more important than the ability to do well in examinations . |
| 4 | But time-wise the gap between them may well be much more important than the time-span within them . |
| 5 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 6 | And certainly if you look at the case for very many women not in the job tops we 're talking about low paid work erm low rates of unionisation , very , very low rates of day care erm it 's those sorts of things that I 'm talking about , and for me those are very , very much more important than the fact that we 've only got one woman Chief Officer at the top in the County Council . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Food fads create a market niche which may be short-lived ; food scares induce a glut of specific vulnerable products and economic distress , but the emerging concept of ‘ healthy foods ’ is bound to become progressively more important as the population follows the trend to healthy eating . |
| 9 | Thus it could be argued that a doctor is functionally more important than a nurse since his or her position carries with it many of the skills necessary to perform a nurse 's role but not vice versa . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He said co-operation between schools and industry was becoming ever more important as the government strives to encourage a ‘ spirit of enterprise and togetherness for the future of Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 12 | The total dose given is probably more important than the frequency of dosing . |
| 13 | Probably more important than the detail of how a left government could appropriate personal saving , is the question of deployment of the funds . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it proved to be too taxing and Peter persuaded her to give up , telling her , ‘ You 're far more important than a degree . ’ |
| 15 | Mention this to most clergymen and they will rightly say that spiritual development is far more important than a degree . |
| 16 | For the UK in particular the use of IT is far more important than the development of the technology itself . |
| 17 | THE new Gatt agreement on trade is far more important than the ego of the French and the greed of their farmers . |
| 18 | The casino demanded a context — and soon the context was far more important than the casino itself . |
| 19 | Far more important than the bombardment of such particles is electromagnetic radiation . |
| 20 | ‘ The morale factor is far more important than the food — the knowledge that the world has not forgotten them . ’ |
| 21 | It 's the practical knowledge that is far more important than the academic . |
| 22 | ‘ Quality of care is far more important than the quality of the surroundings in which they live , ’ added Jane . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So a budgeting shortfall today was regarded as more important than an energy shortfall tomorrow . |
| 25 | In the two schools in which I spent much of my working life ( one as head , one as assistant teacher responsible for physical education ) the broad aims were almost identical and may be summed up as follows : the creation of a living community of children in which the Arts , music , painting and poetry flourished ; where social awareness came before selfish intolerance ; where the written and spoken word was valued as a means to a more distant educational end rather than as an end in itself ; where understanding of number was regarded as more important than the ability to manipulate figures . |
| 26 | A consensus between powerful corporate interests is regarded as more important than the sovereignty of elected representatives . |
| 27 | The individual group was seen as more important than the umbrella organisation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ These days the chief executive is often more important than the chairman . ’ |
| 30 | Even more important than the size of the type , though , is the amount of leading that is inserted between the lines . |