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

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1 One of the few but important things Preston and William had in common as children was the dominant role of women in their lives .
2 Ken Thwaites , who remembers being told the news in the asssembly hall at Normanby Primary School , recalls : ‘ The sad and important words were recognised , but what worried me more was would ‘ Boro 's FA Cup tie with Doncaster Rovers due that afternoon at Ayresome Park be postponed ?
3 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 .
4 Nothing that I have read about the case leads me to the conclusion that anything untoward happened or that the basic and important principle of the GP 's right to refer has been undermined .
5 For many people there is a temptation to sift through the urgent and important in-trays again looking for the work which they know they can deal with quickly and easily .
6 A rear drag is featured and one of the good and important points is that the on/off anti-reverse is easy to reach and operate when fishing fast water .
7 Deep-water and mid-water communities are surveyed briefly , including the little-known but important cephalopods .
8 First , the banal but important point that things were not that bad over the 1960s for the mass of the electorate , so that those Labour voters who had neither expected not desired revolutionary socialism had no real reason to feel betrayed .
9 I congratulate the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) on his success in securing this debate and thank him for raising the disturbing and important question of the use of knives in crime .
10 ‘ He did not paint in the ghastly but important details then .
11 Before describing more precisely the nature of the application and the difficult and important questions of public interest which it raises , it is convenient first to indicate why C.N.L. , say that they now need to see these documents for justice to be done in the libel proceedings .
12 His elevation to the wealthy and important see of Winchester confirms his influence .
13 This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s .
14 Another important function of predicated theme is to signal information structure by presenting the element following It + BE in the main clause as the new or important item to which the hearer's/reader 's attention is drawn .
15 His intention was to convey the significant or important characteristics of a building .
16 There is no decided case bearing directly on the main and important issue .
17 To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years .
18 The Independent of April 8 noted that this Luxembourg meeting of the European Council would be the fourth special meeting in 18 months [ see pp. 37028 ; 37363-64 ; 37782-83 ] and detected " a subtle but important change in the character of the Community , away from supranational roots where the European Commission holds sway , towards a more intergovernmental future under the guiding hand of the European Council " .
19 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 . "
20 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 ’ .
21 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 . ’
22 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 announcement by British Coal of the loss of 13,000 jobs at the Prince of Wales , Sharlston , Kellingley and Whitemoor collieries and the closure of the topping cycle plant at Grimethorpe . ’
23 The hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford ( Mr. Lofthouse ) asks 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 effect on unemployment of the announcement by British Coal to further run down the coal industry in his own and in neighbouring constituencies . ’
24 ‘ The risk of pregnancy is a further and important distinguishing characteristic of rape . ’
25 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 .
26 So your donation will play a direct and important part in our work .
27 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 .
28 A splinter group of the NPFL , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , had emerged by this time as a separate and important force .
29 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 ’ .
30 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 .
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