Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] important [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself . |
| 2 | Two days later he granted me a private audience , a remarkable consideration during those eventful days to his youngest and least important guest . |
| 3 | Even you must admit that it 's become an exciting and extremely important job over the last few years , certainly as far as Carlisle Flint is concerned ! ’ |
| 4 | I have seen my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford being poisonous or venomous , but neither poison nor venom did I detect when he raised a fair , sensible and extremely important matter that needs to be debated frankly and fully on the Floor of the House without the sort of ignorant , absurd and childish platitudes that we have so recently heard . |
| 5 | She could not find any reason why Benny Hogan from the shop across the road and Eve Malone from the convent up the town should not sit and drink coffee in her bay window , but somehow she would have preferred to keep the space for wealthier and more important matrons of Knockglen . |
| 6 | How far judges consciously or unconsciously subserve the wider interests of governments is another and more important question . |
| 7 | ‘ That was part of it , but I had another and more important reason for opposing him . ’ |
| 8 | It is dependent , however , on another and more important connection , a fifth , between a causal circumstance and its effect . |
| 9 | Molotov was opposed to the evacuation of any Soviet military bases for fear of setting a dangerous precedent which could apply to other similar and more important issues . |
| 10 | But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries . |
| 11 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 12 | The second and more important lack is that of any real constitutional analysis of the crisis . |
| 13 | There is a second and more important way in which corporate organizations and wealthy individuals use financial muscle to weaken electoral competition , namely , their ownership and control of the mass media . |
| 14 | The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world . |
| 15 | During his second and more important period as foreign secretary in 1822 – 27 Canning went considerably further in this direction . |
| 16 | The second and more important reason is to impose liability on the vendor in the event that the assets are inadequate or defective or the vendor does not have adequate title . |
| 17 | To the liberal ‘ scientific ’ mind , a solution of this second and more important slippage would involve a strict limitation on police and judicial discretion and less stigmatization either by decriminalizing some behaviours , or imposing less incarceration ( Schur 1973 ) . |
| 18 | Community policing will be further marginalised with priority going to intermediate response type of incidents I am confident however that this council will make some crucial and vitally important decisions during the next er budget rounds and the importance of policing an inadequately funded service will be unanimously supported . |
| 19 | This contains a much lengthier and more important consideration of tribal social organization , as well as of classical and oriental societies . |
| 20 | Parental responsibility should be treated as the greatest and most important undertaking of human life , albeit the one potentially holding out the promise of the greatest happiness . |
| 21 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 22 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 23 | The largest and most important cities of the Empire are Altdorf , Nuln , Talabheim and Middenheim . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A new nature reserve on the Somerset Levels , near Glastonbury , which will eventually form part of one of the largest and most important wetlands in Europe , has been formally opened by Sir David Attenborough . |
| 26 | The company is now recognised as one of the largest and most important manufacturers of veterinary ethical pharmaceutical products in the world , with own-label and contract manufacturing services provided . |
| 27 | Edinburgh is Scotland 's capital , and , until overtaken by Glasgow in the middle of the eighteenth century , was its largest and most important city . |
| 28 | The mouth of the River Exe is the largest and most important estuary for birds in the south-west peninsula of Devon and Cornwall . |
| 29 | Consequently due diligence forms a larger and more important part of share sales than of asset sales and in terms of legal costs can be an expensive process . |
| 30 | Both the rump of the Takeshita faction , led by Obuchi , and the new Hata-Ozawa faction , consisting of around 44 of the Takeshita faction 's 109 Diet members , were represented within the new Miyazawa administration , but together they controlled fewer and less important portfolios than had been held by the Takeshita faction prior to the reshuffle . |