Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] important " in BNC.
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| 31 | The second and more important reason is to impose liability on the vendor in the event that the assets are inadequate or defective or the vendor does not have adequate title . |
| 32 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 33 | Community policing will be further marginalised with priority going to intermediate response type of incidents I am confident however that this council will make some crucial and vitally important decisions during the next er budget rounds and the importance of policing an inadequately funded service will be unanimously supported . |
| 34 | This contains a much lengthier and more important consideration of tribal social organization , as well as of classical and oriental societies . |
| 35 | Sophisticated equipment , white coats and medical jargon serve to make most lay people feel ignorant and less important . |
| 36 | Rich deme evidence comes from Eleusis , one of the proudest and most important of the deme sites , partly because of its sanctuary to Demeter and Kore where the cults of the great Eleusinian mystery religion were performed , partly because of a too often forgotten feature of the place : its defences . |
| 37 | As regards the presence of outposts of overseas companies in this country , it has been observed that though ‘ the British economy is not dominated by foreign investment , the foreign presence in Britain is highly visible and statistically important . |
| 38 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 39 | Local councils were to be made more democratic but less important ’ ( Carroll and Carroll 1980:297 ) . |
| 40 | Parental responsibility should be treated as the greatest and most important undertaking of human life , albeit the one potentially holding out the promise of the greatest happiness . |
| 41 | This is very usual and enormously important . |
| 42 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 43 | The company is now recognised as one of the largest and most important manufacturers of veterinary ethical pharmaceutical products in the world , with own-label and contract manufacturing services provided . |
| 44 | The largest and most important of these is the prostate gland . |
| 45 | A new nature reserve on the Somerset Levels , near Glastonbury , which will eventually form part of one of the largest and most important wetlands in Europe , has been formally opened by Sir David Attenborough . |
| 46 | The renewed debate over whether to close the entire ancient centre of Rome to traffic , and in particular the Via dei Fori Imperiali which runs from Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum , slicing in half one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in the world , is charged with political meaning . |
| 47 | The largest and most important cities of the Empire are Altdorf , Nuln , Talabheim and Middenheim . |
| 48 | This is one of the largest and most important of all the constellations . |
| 49 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 50 | The mouth of the River Exe is the largest and most important estuary for birds in the south-west peninsula of Devon and Cornwall . |
| 51 | By far the largest and most important of this type of town , curiously ignored by Professor Hoskins here , and elsewhere . |
| 52 | National assertiveness reached the largest and most important of the Soviet Union 's republics , the Russian , in May 1990 , following the elections to the republican Congress of People 's Deputies in which radical candidates had won a substantial proportion of the vote ( see above , p. 59 ) . |
| 53 | The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor . |
| 54 | Edinburgh is Scotland 's capital , and , until overtaken by Glasgow in the middle of the eighteenth century , was its largest and most important city . |
| 55 | It was reported on Oct. 22 that Iraq had expelled members of the Mujaheddin e-Khalq , based in Baghdad and the largest and most important dissident group opposed to the Iranian regime . |
| 56 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 57 | As clothes grow simpler and less important , the human factor becomes dominant , and there Bruce is quite unique in daring to portray a reality that is seldom seen in fashion magazines . " |
| 58 | Orme 's output totalled some 700 illustrations , but his monument is his British Field Sports of 1807 , described by C. F. G. R. Schwerdt ( 1928 ) as ‘ the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries ’ . |
| 59 | ‘ We believe the case is overwhelmingly strong and extremely important for the heritage of the country ’ , Mr Empson said . |
| 60 | But those are very minor matters , and in the long term , I think , as Geoffrey has said , erm the changes will not be very large or very important . |