Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] important [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother churches tended to guard their privileges jealously and even in the nineteenth century some daughter churches and chapels were still dependent in some respects on the more ancient or more important mother church . |
| 2 | the chosen site must not interfere with or reduce the value of scenic and recreation areas , nor must the habitats of rare or otherwise important plant and animal species be disturbed ; |
| 3 | Geographers are familiar with the concept of the central place — a locally or regionally important centre fulfilling a number of functions for the settlements around . |
| 4 | Many card suppliers also produce other lines , giftwrap stationery items , postcards ; some even produce books which can help to give a co-ordinated display , attracting customers and achieving that all important element of any retailing concern , increased sales and margin . |
| 5 | Anybody who 's anybody knows that a pair of brand new trainers — bright laces undone , tongues out , displaying that all important brand name — says more about you than a wallet full of gold credit cards ’ , you know it 's time to leave the country and live on a desert island in your bare feet or search the loft for your ex-issue Diadora Borg Elite or Stan Smiths . |
| 6 | This is because the assumption is made that all important power in society is concentrated in the hands of the state . |
| 7 | Although the theory is that all important power is concentrated in the hands of the state , this has not meant that the individual has been regarded as powerless . |
| 8 | Since then I have found other uses for it in my knitting room such as to anchor down that very important latch tool and to put in place the little basin on the weighing machine which tends to flop off when I go to weigh a heavy jumper . |
| 9 | However , we will not pursue here that very important problem ( see : Devlin & Murphy ( 1988 ) ) . |
| 10 | The final and most important award of the night , Best Record , went to Clapton . |
| 11 | Carpets are perhaps one of the biggest and most important furnishing investments in any home . |
| 12 | The best and most important song is ‘ No Means No ’ , a powerful comment against date rape . |
| 13 | Quite simply Nicolas Roeg 's best and most important film to date — an ideal festival choice . |
| 14 | Its key tenets are : 1 The customer comes first : The first and most important characteristic of total quality is the search continually to meet , and even exceed , the customer 's demands and expectations . |
| 15 | The first and most important consideration is that in the forty years since 9 August 1945 , despite the fact that all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars at one time or another , nuclear weapons have not once been used militarily . |
| 16 | The final and most important feature of the system is Party primacy . |
| 17 | If visiting or entertaining friends is difficult , this is the first and most important problem to be tackled , because maintaining ( or restoring ) this particular activity will do more than almost anything else to keep life in balance . |
| 18 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 19 | The temple , the oldest ( 340–250 B.C. ) and most important building of the city , was the work of Pytheos , architect of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassos ( page 35 ) and , though of more modest dimensions ( 122 feet by 64 feet ) , than the temples at Didyma and Ephesos , was finely proportioned and regarded as a model for Ionic temples in Asia Minor . |
| 20 | As husbands and wives , we recognise that our first and most important ministry is to our partner , closely followed by our children . |
| 21 | The very first and most important principle to bear in mind when planting a rose or any other shrub or tree is that this is the last opportunity you will have to do anything basic about the soil underneath , where the roots will have to work . |
| 22 | The first and most important change was the general introduction of cash limits . |
| 23 | Welcome back to Central South , on the final and most important day of the Cheltenham Racing Festival . |
| 24 | It was certainly a little depressing that the wealthiest and most important man in the area did not seem to admire her , as all the other men did . |
| 25 | Mrs Banham said : ‘ Stephen is going to miss the best part of his first and most important year of school due to illness with ear infections . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So obviously no one who 's got an establishment contract will be affected from the first of July , but really everyone who 's on a temporary contract , those contracts are very much in the melting pot , and we 've got a meeting on the nineteenth of May s an extra C S M T meeting , to say , right this is how much money we 've got , these are the people with temporary contracts but the third and most important factor really is this is a new assessment of the workload of every office , and whereas in the past careers officer establishment has been based exclusively on year eleven figures and other staffing has been based on pretty arbitrary factors of historical nature |
| 28 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 29 | The first and most important question to mull over as you gaze at your patch is : What is this garden for ? |
| 30 | Even with everything mechanical working and at the right temperature , you can still unbalance the biological and most important part of the system very easily . |