Example sentences of "[adv] important [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is neither more nor less important that a mentally handicapped adolescent finds a place of work than it is for any other adolescent . |
| 2 | In 1939 nearly everyone had a direct or indirect memory of mass warfare and mindless patriotism was much less important than a conscious commitment to the idea that aggressive fascism could not be stopped by any method short of war . |
| 3 | In attempting to influence political developments in Poland , the West was reduced to using precisely those instruments that the Bonn government ( and Social Democratic opposition ) is now belatedly attempting to apply to the GDR : first , a symbolic politics recognising the Church and opposition as partners no less important than the communist authorities who claim to be , but are not , identical with ‘ the state ’ and , second , the conditional offer of economic help ( politely called ‘ co-operation ’ ) as a goad to political change — neither pure ‘ carrot ’ nor simple ‘ stick ’ , but a carrot-cum-stick . |
| 4 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
| 5 | Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . |
| 6 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
| 7 | He announced his credo unashamedly in his first editorial : ‘ We believe we are filling a publishing need only slightly less important than the one just taken care of by the Kinsey Report . ’ |
| 8 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 9 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
| 10 | The individual figures are less important than the overall picture , which illustrates the limitations of production on a small farm and the unavoidable expenses . |
| 11 | Depending upon the attitude of his parents , he may begin to feel that he is either far more or far less important than the other children of the family and this too will affect his relationship with them . |
| 12 | The farmers in the extended LFA are mainly dairy farmers or dairy with sheep , and it may well be that compensatory payments because of LFA designation will be less important than the substantial payments they can attract under the EEC 's existing Sheepmeat Regime . |
| 13 | The latter is no less important than the former , and if bibliographical decisions are made wrongly no amount of logistic information can redeem the situation . |
| 14 | Free fatty acids , which are bound to albumin , are quantitatively less important than the lipoproteins but may be very significant in the context of poorly controlled diabetes with accumulation and production of ketone bodies . |
| 15 | After a study of academic enterprise in the US , Matthew Bullock of Barclays Bank , concludes that specific ‘ technology transfer mechanisms ’ are less important than the willingness of universities to allow their academics to work for industry ‘ on the side ’ . |
| 16 | In the ninth and tenth centuries the financial aspect of feudalism was on the whole less important than the military . |
| 17 | This possibility is available because the fetus is regarded as less important than the mother . |
| 18 | The exact chronology is , however , less important than the recording of a definite Saxon tradition , the inauguration of a new political unit . |
| 19 | That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state . |
| 20 | The explicit conflict between Henderson and MacDonald over the meaning of ‘ democratic diplomacy ’ was ultimately less important than the implicit contradictions in Labour 's politics between liberal internationalism and socialist nationalism . |
| 21 | Whether or not this small-scale self-publication works in terms of sales is less important than the extraordinary experience it can provide : that of working hard with a few other writers at making something , putting something into print . |
| 22 | The word ‘ mothering ’ is sexist in many contexts because it reinforces the ‘ natural ’ connection of women with children and childcare — a connection that feminists have criticised , since under our present social arrangements it has the entirely sexist consequences of defining non-mothers as non-women , restricting women 's opportunities to do other things if they wish , exploiting their unpaid labour and in some cases causing them to be seen as less important than the children they give birth to . |
| 23 | In some areas the size of the shell is less important than the thickness of the shell . |
| 24 | That sport and , for that matter , entertainment may not be viable avenues from despair is less important than the fact that they were seen as such by groups who saw no alternatives . |
| 25 | He contrasted this approach with the methods of the best Russian and German directors , who almost certainly would have made a film in which the characters were less important than the system they would be condemning . |
| 26 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 27 | The fact that the public law applicant is usually challenging the exercise of a discretionary power does not mean that what is at stake for him or her is any less important than the sort of interests protected by private law . |
| 28 | Gloucester 's justifications for his actions were , however , less important than the underlying realities of the situation . |
| 29 | The exact mechanism of Hastings ' fall is , however , less important than the motives behind it . |
| 30 | On the whole the differences in prey availability between the continents is equivocal and less important than the differences between one location and another . |