Example sentences of "have be a [adv] important [noun] " in BNC.

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1	A steadily more favourable balance on the UK 's trade in primary products has been a particularly important offset : it generated a surplus in 1983 when manufactures went into deficit .
2	But this is unjust to what has been a most important influence on modern design .
3	Climatic geomorphology has been a very important element in the subject in Europe , especially in Germany and more recently in France .
4	‘ I could never have done this much before , but keeping busy has been a very important part in losing weight and keeping it off , ’ she says .
5	Pragmatism has been an especially important influence on the functionalist style .
6	Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish .
7	That must have been a fairly important decision . ’
8	‘ Simon de Montfort seems to have been a pretty important baron . ’
9	Boston had been a very important port in medieval times , importing goods from the northern European ports .
10	Most works since , whether detailed monographs , or general cross-cultural surveys , have taken for granted the merits of such an approach , and the result had been an extremely important garnering of sexual knowledge .
11	Because the laws of war derive to a large extent from standards which have developed within states , and because they have always depended for their enforcement largely on national legal systems , court decisions have been a very important source of the laws of war .
12	Regulatory barriers have been an especially important obstacle to the full development of internationally traded services .

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