Example sentences of "have be a [adv] important [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
6 | That must have been a fairly important decision . ’ |
7 | ‘ Simon de Montfort seems to have been a pretty important baron . ’ |
8 | Boston had been a very important port in medieval times , importing goods from the northern European ports . |
9 | 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 . |