Example sentences of "[adv] important [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that existing structures of policing ( or defence ) are more effective than what is proposed is less important than the principle that such matters should be the preserve of a united European Government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Here the actual process of perception by the audience is less important than the knowledge resulting from perception which the playwright wants the audience to receive at this point in the play . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The question of who can sue is less important than the question of who will sue . |
| 7 | The British Museum had natural-history collections , but these were poorly housed and were considered less important than the museum 's artistic holdings . |
| 8 | In some areas the size of the shell is less important than the thickness of the shell . |
| 9 | I accept that my development as myself is less important than the chance to become part of a couple . |
| 10 | The guidelines include a list of entry qualifications which for the most part are similar to those granting entry to the Council 's teacher-training courses for would-be school teachers ; in that respect , they do not accord with NATFHE 's belief that formal entry requirements are less important than the achievement of terminal standards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The degree to which any particular development is exclusively attributable to the project remains a moot point , but in our view this is less important than the degree to which the project complemented and extended existing and coincidental developments , and in this respect the project has been most successful . |
| 13 | But in a pragmatist society he would have to predict whether the judges would be likely to consider his case as one in which the virtues of predictability were less important than the substance of the law , and whether , if they thought substance more important , they would think a decision for him better or worse for the community . |
| 14 | The exact chronology is , however , less important than the recording of a definite Saxon tradition , the inauguration of a new political unit . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The frequency of a particular kind of syntactic structure ( say a relative clause ) will probably be less important than the fact that that structure tends to occur in a particular position in the sentence ( eg at the end , or at the middle ) . |
| 19 | The existence of such systems is less important than the fact that they are technically feasible and get reported as such . |
| 20 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
| 21 | This possibility is available because the fetus is regarded as less important than the mother . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
| 24 | In the ninth and tenth centuries the financial aspect of feudalism was on the whole less important than the military . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 27 | The weeding out of the congenitally unfit was only a secondary process , less important than the pressure encouraging most individuals to become fitter . |
| 28 | This emphasis upon the need for cultural and social reinforcement , though often overlooked by educationalists , is crucially important if the learning process is to be useful and related to the experience of the community groups so that they feel they can go on to employ practical applications of their learning . |
| 29 | These distinctions are especially important since the development is easier to illustrate in broad terms than to measure precisely . |
| 30 | Flexibility is the key to success and is especially important when the employment situation is difficult and changing rapidly . |