Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] important [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear is our most primitive and important response . |
| 2 | Erm but I , you know if you said I think you see , I think what Colin 's raising is a very interesting and important issue and I I naturally you know as a senior manager I 'm concerned about it . |
| 3 | The age distribution of a work force is always an interesting and important source of information . |
| 4 | While the monitoring function is clearly an interesting and important aspect of language learning and language use , one feels it deserves to be represented as a complex and subtle activity , responsive to a variety of social and psychological pressures . |
| 5 | Minsky is making an interesting and important point here and I shall refer back to it , but for the moment the quotation functions purely as a sample : what it has in common with Turing 's classic paper is that it is not philosophical argument at all . |
| 6 | Chandos 's brave and important Parry series , conducted with sterling musicianship and remarkable insights by Matthias Bamert , adds another choral disc to the four out of the five symphonies so far issued . |
| 7 | So your donation will play a direct and important part in our work . |
| 8 | The young Chinese-American Frederic Chiu displays spectacular virtuosity , glitter and panache , as well as deep sensitivity and thought in this , a most enterprising and important recording début . |
| 9 | SNP obtained sensible and important concession |
| 10 | Alex Salmond , Margaret Ewing and Andrew Welsh , you can be sure , will have weighed up carefully the predictable uproar and have decided that the obtaining , with only three votes , of such a sensible and important concession for Scotland from the Government is , in fact , a considerable achievement . |
| 11 | The significance of this fact will be dealt with later ; suffice it to say here that the effect of the listing arrived at by the formulators of the received tradition is to raise this perfectly acceptable and important generalization to the status of an unbroken rule , to smooth away all complications and to present a perfectly articulated chain of Muftis , all of whom remained in office until their deaths . |
| 12 | In this process , the tentacles serve another and important function , for the water brings with it dissolved oxygen which Lingula needs in order to respire . |
| 13 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 14 | This is often justified on the grounds that law is not a distinct and important element in understanding systems of government , but there are professional reasons too . |
| 15 | Finance Ministers and central bank governors noted especially the central and important role played by the IMF and the World Bank group institutions in the move towards economic stabilization and reform in central and eastern Europe and in the implementation of the strengthened debt strategy . |
| 16 | It made her very uneasy having hir in the same building as Ari at such a dangerous and important time . |
| 17 | If so , that is an instructive and important addition to the Labour party 's nuclear policy and , as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State reminds me , is a fourth arm in such a policy . |
| 18 | The time of proving himself was over ; John Cranko now held an official and important post in the Sadler 's Wells organization , only four and a half years after arriving in Britain as a student at the Sadler 's Wells school . |
| 19 | This is a serious and important problem which has to be tackled . |
| 20 | As well as being an early and important investor in the newspaper industry by procuring a stake in The Argus Printing and Publishing Company , Johnnies also acquired shares in South African Breweries . |
| 21 | A splinter group of the NPFL , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , had emerged by this time as a separate and important force . |
| 22 | While political independence is a contemporary and important fact of life in all but a handful of countries , the economic incorporation of their economies into the world economy continues and deepens . |
| 23 | Among these hypokalaemia is the most consistent and important finding , and its magnitude correlates well with the concurrent serum theophylline concentration . |
| 24 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 25 | It was a vague but important time in the cultural and social history of the western world , a good time for those who were in it and enjoying themselves , a bad time for those who were dismayed at ‘ young people today ’ . |
| 26 | Emergency Debates are allowed at the discretion of the Speaker under Standing Order 20 if he considers that an application relates to " a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration . " |
| 27 | If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 ( Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration ) stands over from an earlier day , paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the proceedings on the Bill for a period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) If an allotted day is one on which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 ( Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration ) would , apart from this Order , stand over to Seven o'clock — |
| 29 | I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ The need for a debate on the closure of the Volvo bus plant , formerly known as Leyland National , in my constituency ’ . |
| 30 | The hon. Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) seeks leave to move the Adjournment of the House , under Standing Order No. 20 , for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ The closure of the Leyland Volvo bus manufacturing plant in Workington , with the loss of 370 jobs , announced this weekend . ’ |