Example sentences of "of [art] first importance " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was of the first importance to him . |
| 2 | Eliot made clear in Notes that his true concern was ‘ a problem of the first importance … that of the transmission of culture ’ . |
| 3 | In wartime , stations have been since the days of the American Civil War an essential element in the transportation of men and materials and consequently a military target of the first importance . |
| 4 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 5 | The Lao PDR has good metalliferous mineral potential for profitable commodities of the first importance in world markets , as well as for gems and industrial minerals . |
| 6 | The Lao PDR has good mineral potential for gold , copper , lead and zinc , which are currently ranked as mineral commodities of the first importance in world markets . |
| 7 | It is considered of the first importance that young persons should receive correct and permanent impressions on this subject and to assist in securing that object it is intended to exhibit a model of a SLAVE SHIP which was recently captured upon the coast of Africa . |
| 8 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |
| 9 | The work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is of the first importance in this area . |
| 10 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 11 | ‘ Whatever you see never exists simply and solely by itself , as an isolated sign or symbol , but by playing its part within a context in which relatedness as such is of the first importance ’ . |
| 12 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 13 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 14 | This advance is of the first importance to the population of the People 's Republic of China , and an agreement is being entered into between the Rank Xerox Unit and the Demography Institute of the University of Peking in Beijing . |
| 15 | This phenomenon of mastery of the anal drive turns out to be of the first importance for pastoral peoples because , as I have demonstrated elsewhere , pastoral psychology is often based on the introjection of sadistic drives which would otherwise threaten the herds on which the pastoralist depends for his existence . |
| 16 | Secondly , an individual needs to undergo toilet-training not merely because of the demands of common decency and modern personal hygiene , but , much more importantly , because we live in a culture in which an ability to control sadistic drives is of the first importance , both for the quality of our civilization and for the acquisition and protection of our cultural wealth in general . |
| 17 | Its lessening and perhaps even virtual disappearance in some cases as a culturally-marked developmental period is of the first importance and is one of the most disquieting symptoms of modern social change . |
| 18 | This information is of the first importance . |
| 19 | His company decimated by murderous shell-fire even before reaching the objective , Jubert found himself alone , possibly the only surviving officer , and sent off a message to his battalion commander : ‘ I do not know where I am , but the position is of the first importance , and I have only ten men to hold it . ’ |