Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] important " in BNC.

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1 A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself .
2 In Nicholson 's case , however , it is more interesting and quite important to characterize the age in which he found fame — the drug infested anti-establishment set of the Vietnam era — as one of the advance guard leading the underground movements of the Sixties to the surface of American life in a cloud of head-spinning smoke , at a time when marijuana was the best cash crop in Southern California .
3 The question of what is going on ‘ at ground level ’ is nonetheless interesting and potentially important because schools that have experience in evaluation have much to offer those who are just beginning to establish procedures .
4 Two days later he granted me a private audience , a remarkable consideration during those eventful days to his youngest and least important guest .
5 Even you must admit that it 's become an exciting and extremely important job over the last few years , certainly as far as Carlisle Flint is concerned ! ’
6 I have seen my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford being poisonous or venomous , but neither poison nor venom did I detect when he raised a fair , sensible and extremely important matter that needs to be debated frankly and fully on the Floor of the House without the sort of ignorant , absurd and childish platitudes that we have so recently heard .
7 On the whole the differences in prey availability between the continents is equivocal and less important than the differences between one location and another .
8 This book — theoretically sound and politically important — fleshes out the points of similarity between the sexes ( ironically around the crises , confusions and contradictions of gender definition ) and points to the potential for radical changes which are now available with such a heterogeneous array of ‘ femininities ’ and ‘ masculinities ’ in play .
9 Arising from the deutocerebrum are four pairs of nerves : the antenna/nerves are the longest and most important , and are the sensory nerves of the antennae though the motor fibres mentioned next are also present in the same nerve ; each has two roots , one of which is derived from the antennal lobe of its side and the other from the dorsal lobe .
10 ‘ The objective of the peace process which is broader and more important because it is bound to change the region , is to implement UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 and land for peace . ’
11 She could not find any reason why Benny Hogan from the shop across the road and Eve Malone from the convent up the town should not sit and drink coffee in her bay window , but somehow she would have preferred to keep the space for wealthier and more important matrons of Knockglen .
12 Side by side with this European aspect of the balance of power went another and increasingly important one — that constituted by events on the oceans and in Europe 's colonies overseas .
13 It is dependent , however , on another and more important connection , a fifth , between a causal circumstance and its effect .
14 How far judges consciously or unconsciously subserve the wider interests of governments is another and more important question .
15 ‘ That was part of it , but I had another and more important reason for opposing him . ’
16 Now another very another and very important er competitor is the water boards .
17 All this does not at all mean that monopoly , within our framework of discussion has become less potentially dangerous or less important .
18 Sad that so important a subject should be so turgid for most of us .
19 Molotov was opposed to the evacuation of any Soviet military bases for fear of setting a dangerous precedent which could apply to other similar and more important issues .
20 But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries .
21 There is a real and very understandable temptation to regard the taught paddle strokes as correct , fixed and vitally important but this is wrong .
22 The second and most important divining technique involves an oracular substance ( benge ) which is credited by the Zande with possessing the power of distinguishing between contrary propositions and thus solving human dilemmas .
23 Second and equally important , as Fratter ( 1989 ) also asks , can parents release and mourn a child to whom they are attached or to put it more bluntly , can parents mourn a child that is not dead ?
24 Second and equally important , for there is no ‘ first ’ and ‘ second ’ class research , is that body of information about schools — you might call it a ‘ professional inventory ’ , which is as important to a curriculum planner as statistics are to a ministry planning officer .
25 The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world .
26 The second and more important lack is that of any real constitutional analysis of the crisis .
27 A second and more important ergonomic feature is the indentation directly above the tacker nose .
28 To the liberal ‘ scientific ’ mind , a solution of this second and more important slippage would involve a strict limitation on police and judicial discretion and less stigmatization either by decriminalizing some behaviours , or imposing less incarceration ( Schur 1973 ) .
29 There is a second and more important way in which corporate organizations and wealthy individuals use financial muscle to weaken electoral competition , namely , their ownership and control of the mass media .
30 During his second and more important period as foreign secretary in 1822 – 27 Canning went considerably further in this direction .
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