Example sentences of "important [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Günter Wand actually conducted the opera 's first performance in Cologne in 1957 , and it was immediately hailed by the critics as one of the most important post-Schoenbergian music theatre pieces of its era . |
| 2 | In fact , the Big Three continued to exclude de Gaulle from the most important inter-Allied conferences ( at Dumbarton Oaks in the autumn of 1944 and at Yalta in February 1945 ) . |
| 3 | He decided on all military promotions and made the important non-military appointments . |
| 4 | One other important possible market might be companies . |
| 5 | All the same it will be useful to outline some of the more important possible forms of relationship . |
| 6 | The one important possible exception to the general silence of the Turkish biographical sources on the Muftilik of Hizir Bey is the account of Mustakimzade . |
| 7 | But his definition of style , like Jakobson 's of poetry , fails to allow for its multiplicity and changeability , even if it points to an important possible source of literary effect ; and in his claims concerning readers ' responses he attributes to these a degree of regularity which to many must seem quite unrealistic . |
| 8 | Austria , which chaired the European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 , continued to press for agreement with the EC on a common European economic area ( EEA ) [ see pp. 38353 ; 38307 ] , which Economic Affairs Minister Schüssel described in January 1991 as " an important interim step … along the path to full [ EC ] membership " . |
| 9 | Stoneywood Mill , by the River Don , is an important paper-making mill in Scotland , where a large proportion of Britain 's paper is made . |
| 10 | When the collection was still in the palazzo ( it was moved about 60 years ago ) it was the most important private library in Milan . |
| 11 | With such magnificent surroundings , it is fitting that Kenwood is the home of one of the most important private collections of paintings to be given to the nation this century , including world-famous works by Rembrandt , Vermeer , Turner , Reynolds and Gainsborough . |
| 12 | The Iveagh Bequest in Kenwood is one of the most important private collections of paintings in the country . |
| 13 | For the occasion the gallery has been stocked with loans of Johns 's work in a full range of media from various museums as well as from two important private collections : those of Mr Castelli and Mr Johns . |
| 14 | His father , Martin , was a leading rare book dealer in pre-War Berlin who assembled the most important private collection of books on bibliography . |
| 15 | On 5 December Christie 's Monaco will be offering an important private collection of French furniture estimated to realise about £3.5 million in total . |
| 16 | The Harvard University Art Museums are in the process of acquiring the Gregory and Maria Henderson Collection of Korean Ceramics , the most important private collection of its kind in the West . |
| 17 | Sir Denis Mahon , owner of the most important private collection of Italian Baroque paintings , whose much-discussed future bequest to the National Gallery is the subject of on-going debate , has loaned a second Guercino painting to the Gallery . |
| 18 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum have received substantial gifts of modern American art from the estate of Edith and Milton Lowenthal , a New York couple that assembled one of the most important private holdings of American art from the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 19 | Meetings therefore always took place at five-thirty in the evening , a time when a politician , a lawyer or a captain of industry might be expected to be able to get away from his office for an important private occasion . |
| 20 | Hazard research , like few other GIS application areas , is not only stretching the present technology to its limits but is a quite remarkable focus of international effort into several important research-related areas such as expert systems and simulation studies . |
| 21 | For her he composed his most important devotional works , including several hymns and a poem in praise of virginity . |
| 22 | In contrast , in both of the earlier studies structural integration was virtually impossible without knowing the overall theme , so that most of the information contained in the passage was lost by the time the important contextual/thematic information was supplied . |
| 23 | RIGS ( Regionally Important Geological Sites ) — set up to build a network of local voluntary groups to collect geological information on their areas . |
| 24 | REGIONALLY IMPORTANT GEOLOGICAL SITES — LOTHIAN ( RIGS ) |
| 25 | Setting up of a ‘ Regionally Important Geological Sites Group ’ ( RIGS ) to promote conservation of earth science sites . |
| 26 | , English Nature has agreed to pay expenses for volunteers involved in the Regionally Important Geological / Geomorphological Sites ( RIGS ) scheme . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher was careful on the whole to appoint her supporters to the important economic ministries . |
| 28 | In the province of Punjab the most important economic change of the nineteenth century came with British colonialism . |
| 29 | There too she is never considered a significant contributor to the economic needs of the family ( because labour power is not equated with real economic value ) and there too , among the farming castes , her most important economic roles are the production and servicing of labour . |
| 30 | Our new Welsh Assembly will also have important economic responsibilities . |