Example sentences of "have [adv] be a important [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I mentioned earlier , the saithe or coalfish Gadus virens has long been an important fish in Shetland , the surface-shoaling immatures being utilised by many sea-birds . |
| 2 | Gloucester has always been an important centre for the water-borne movement of goods , its quays dating back many centuries , and as far back as anyone can trace , the Severn has been used for both the import and export of a multitude of commodities . |
| 3 | One might easily assume that it has always been an important road . |
| 4 | It follows that the law which regulates the modes in which landowners can exercise this power of alienation — the law of conveyancing — has always been an important part of the land law . |
| 5 | Pride has always been an important part of his make-up . |
| 6 | Keeping the lid on his bubbly personality has always been an important part of managing Ian Wright . |
| 7 | Cleveleys has always been an important destination on the Blackpool and Fleetwood line , with an intermediate service operating there from earliest Company days . |
| 8 | Although climatic changes undoubtedly occurred during the post-glacial , it appears that the principal determinants of regional vegetational change in the Outer Hebrides have been natural soil changes , with widespread leaching , podsolisation , and bog development beginning at about 7000 B.P. From about 5000 B.P. or even earlier ( Bohnke , 1988 ) , human influence has also been an important factor . |
| 9 | Sex has also been an important variable because mortality rates for women have declined faster than those for men . |
| 10 | The issue of women in communication has historically been an important issue for us because of the sexist structure of Latin American and Caribbean society . |
| 11 | Dublin has never been an important element in the mythology of Irish nationalism . |
| 12 | It would seem sensible that strategies to help Sheffield , with the recent and very sudden collapse of its steel industry , may not be able to assist Liverpool or Newcastle , where steel has never been an important industry and where decline has been long-term . |
| 13 | ’ As the influence of Cézanne grew , so that of Gauguin , who had hitherto been an important influence in the work of the Fauves , waned . |
| 14 | The latter hurt Israel far more than the Arab states because France had long been an important arms supplier to Israel . |
| 15 | Vauxcelles 's attack on Braque 's first Cubist paintings serves to emphasize the new and radical use to which he had put his studies of Cézanne , for in 1908 Cézanne had already been an important influence on advanced painting for some time . |
| 16 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 17 | It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction . |
| 18 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |
| 19 | Two- and three-year-old fish are too large most birds , but have traditionally been an important part of the diet of the Shetland people . |
| 20 | Humphrey Wine expressed his personal enthusiasm for acquiring more history and religious works but noted that one major difficulty was the paucity of such paintings in British private collections , which have traditionally been an important source of acquisition for the National Gallery . |