Example sentences of "the [adv] important [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was involved in the most important questions of policy — negotiations for the marriage of royal children : Eleanor in 1170 and John in 1173 But in view of Eleanor of Aquitaine 's masterful political activity in later years it seems superfluous to look for a power behind the throne . |
| 2 | Do all Englishmen say the most important things in Latin ? ’ |
| 3 | One of the most important changes in pub design during this period was in the plan . |
| 4 | The most extreme changes in an article which I have experienced involved alterations to the title and summary and major changes within the article itself , including making the most important tables into text . |
| 5 | BACS is undoubtedly one of the most important developments in payment systems and should be considered by all businesses . |
| 6 | The work of the German sociologist Max Weber ( 1864–1920 ) represents one of the most important developments in stratification theory since Marx . |
| 7 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 8 | As Gramsci points out ( 1971 : 260 ) , ‘ the bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in continuous movement , capable of absorbing the whole society , assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level ’ , and this would-be universalizing push provides one of the most important elements in music history of the last two hundred years . |
| 9 | And one of the most important functions of information dynamics is precisely to link a sentence to its environment in a manner which allows the information to flow through the text in the desired manner . |
| 10 | For example , one of the most important functions of cleft and pseudo-cleft structures in English ( discussed under predicated and identifying theme , section 5.1.1.3 ) is to signal information status . |
| 11 | For in such a state by far the most important conditions of production and consumption , of exchange and distribution will remain of the same quality , and in the same general relations to one another , though they are all increasing in volume . |
| 12 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 13 | Then he began to see that friendship and love , shown to our marriage partner , our friends and to God himself , are ultimately the most important dimensions of life . |
| 14 | A 1982 report to the Toronto Board of Education noted that a sense of identity and self-respect were the most important by-products of teaching heritage languages . |
| 15 | Most Christians would claim that the celebration of the Eucharist is one of the most important moments within Christianity , both in its beginnings at the Last Supper and in the life of the Church today . |
| 16 | The most important incentives for Field Chairs are thus the opportunity to exercise some control over the educational context within which their subject is taught ; the challenge of defending the interests of their discipline ; the opportunity to develop expert knowledge of the course structure and regulations through participation in debate ; and the advantage of administrative experience for career development . |
| 17 | The most important users of agency workers are establishments in the banking , insurance , finance and business services sector , again a result supporting the findings of our LFS analysis , and these are particularly concentrated in the business services sub-sector where agencies themselves are located . |
| 18 | For example , Almond cites the bureaucracy as ‘ one of the most important sources of legislation ’ and as dominant in rule-making in non-Western societies ( Almond and Coleman 1960 , p. 17 ) . |
| 19 | This is one of the most important sources of water quality problems . |
| 20 | Some of the most important sources of friction between the marketing department and other departments are as indicated below . |
| 21 | Coins are one of the most important sources of information from which archaeologists and historians can try to interpret the past . |
| 22 | Bibliographies are the most important sources of information for book selection , and a close understanding of their functions is essential — especially for stock revision . |
| 23 | These representatives corresponded regularly and sometimes very frequently with the governments for which they acted ; from the early sixteenth century onwards their despatches and reports , preserved in the official archives which were now beginning to be formed , are one of the most important sources of information available to the historian . |
| 24 | The belief that sport was character forming was adopted from the public schools and achievement in sport became one of the most important sources of status in elementary school life … |
| 25 | Figure 5.19 shows the most important sources of energy and their origins-the Sun , the Earth and the Moon . |
| 26 | The most important statutes concerning consumer affairs include the following : |
| 27 | On a par with their conception of social revolution , the FMLN sees taking power in health as a complex process where organized communities rather than individuals are the most important agents of change and empowerment . |
| 28 | One of the most important constraints on food production in Africa is lack of person-power in the rural areas . |
| 29 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 30 | Course measuring , which has been one of the most important areas of work in road racing over the past few years , has certainly not suffered for want of funding . ’ |