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

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1 Coach Mike Luke is right to stress the positive aspects of the CANZ contacts when he says : ‘ This is the single most important development tour we can undertake and we learned a great deal about some of Canada 's future World Cup players in one of the strongest and most testing environments the game has to offer .
2 The completion of the modernization of the Exhibition Hall at the end of June marked the beginning of a new era for the Library , and probably constitutes the single most important development in the field of Library exhibitions since the opening of the George IV Bridge Building over thirty years ago .
3 The new Medical Officer , a highly visible public figure , was instrumental in pushing for increased professional status , especially in the campaigns over the Medical Act of 1858 , the single most important measure governing medicine .
4 No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ .
5 But the single most important song for me was Public Image by Public Image Ltd .
6 It was already a specifically trade union response to the single most important question trade unions face : the question of maintaining and improving the wages paid to their members by employers .
7 If there is a single most important component of this course it is the notion that parents , not professionals , solve problems .
8 In conjunction with changing Postglacial sea levels , high winds have driven large quantities of mineral sand and shell fragments inshore and inland to form machair , arguably the single most important habitat in the Western Isles for man as well as wildlife .
9 The yardages for each tournament are the single most important function of a caddie .
10 Lastly , they would remove what is undoubtedly , in the case above , the single most important feature needed to understand what is being said : the fact that these two people are involved in moving a piano and A ( a middle-aged man trying to assert his authority ) is already supporting its weight : hence , perhaps , his impatience , breathlessness , and desperate switch from ordering to pleading with B , a youth who has only reluctantly agreed to come along and help .
11 Step 4 Select the single most important behaviour that is causing you concern .
12 Having pretty much failed in the single most important objective of Systems Application Architecture , that of creating a single user interface for all its disparate operating system families with Common User Access , IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products group is trying again , this time with the Workplace Shell of OS/2 2.0 .
13 Assisting with the creation of a viable payments union in the area that used to be described as the Soviet Union would be the single most important contribution that the Twelve could make to that unstable and dangerous part of the world .
14 Apart from that , in midlife as at every age , a good cut — about once every six weeks — is the single most important way to keep hair looking good , with an occasional soft perm or demi wave , when required .
15 In fact , broadcasting , first through radio and then even more dramatically on television ‘ has been the single most important influence on the development of sport in this century .
16 Thus the single most important element in the multiple barrier is the sediment cover .
17 But perhaps the single most important element in such groups is to support , encourage and pray for one another .
18 The single most important element of a page is its overall design , regardless of , but strongly influenced by , its content .
19 Sybille was the single most important element which eased daily pressure for both her and Bernard in France .
20 Perhaps the single most important decision was to set up a Wirral-wide counselling service for drug users .
21 The other single most important factor responsible for raising the standard of care was the recognition of venereology as a clinical specialty in its own right .
22 This is the single most important factor in effective book provision .
23 However , the single most important factor militating against employers ' cooperation was that they never regarded the ‘ problems ’ highlighted by reformers — indiscipline , excessive occupational mobility , absence of vocational guidance , lack of systematic industrial training , and inadequate preparation for family responsibilities and exercise of the franchise — as problems for which they felt responsible ; they had little interest in the search for solutions .
24 Again and again we find this the single most important factor in church planting .
25 Stuart Christine , who teaches the new church planters ' programme at Spurgeon 's College , concluded after his initial research that the single most important factor in the planting of a new church is the calibre of the leader .
26 From a very young age I learned that my duty was the single most important factor in my life and that everything I did must be dedicated to it .
27 Best himself seems to have few doubts as to why he got the nod , citing the growing importance of the Divisional Championship as the single most important factor in his — and England 's — meteoric rise .
28 A recently released consultant 's report commissioned by the local authorities declared that the arrival of the Llangollen Railway in Corwen would be the single most important factor in the economic regeneration of the town which has for so long lived in the shadow of Llangollen , ten miles to the east .
29 For example , the home situation may be seen as the single most important factor ‘ causing ’ the child 's behaviour problems .
30 In his analysis Atkin ( 1979 ) points to the ‘ fragmentation of community ’ as the single most important factor feeding accountability pressures in the USA .
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