Example sentences of "[be] important know [conj] " in BNC.

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1 For example , if the person is severely incapacitated and has difficulty in mobilising , it can be important to know whether , when at home , it is necessary to go upstairs to the toilet .
2 It will be important to know whether the trend in nocturnal hospital admissions has changed since the new contract was introduced .
3 It would also be important to know if the changes found reverse with abstinence .
4 ‘ It 's important to know that this is going on under our noses .
5 It is important to know whether this will impinge heavily on the poor .
6 Above all , it was necessary , in the search for quality , for LEAs to have their own direct observation of teaching and learning : " it is important to know whether improvements are needed in the organization of teaching , in the provision of equipment and materials , in the quality of teaching of one or more teachers or in some quite different area " ( Audit Commission 1989:8 ) .
7 In the example of the paperclip business it is important to know whether the vendor has its own or an external design team .
8 It has a soft , waxy nature and chemically it is important to know that it is insoluble in water .
9 While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value .
10 For the Galileo story it is important to know that over the centuries Aristotle 's philosophy had become a part of Catholic orthodoxy .
11 However , it is important to know that after infection by HIV , it can take up to three months — or sometimes even longer — for antibodies to appear .
12 Different theorists offer different explanations for dreams , but regardless of these , it is important to know that dreaming is not an indication of a good quality of sleep .
13 Second , the text shows that it was important to know whether the general clause applied or not .
14 If client experience did not change , it was important to know whether this was a result of the failure of the experimental service to work , or a failure to properly create the experimental service .
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