Example sentences of "[be] [adv] important [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coalitions are especially important when change is needed because innovation — new projects or developments — generally involve going outside of current sources of organizational power . |
| 2 | People for whom career goals are less important than comfort goals ( lower achievers in an organizational sense ) are more likely to watch others play sport ; their first sexual experiences occur younger and more frequently thereafter . |
| 3 | And on the other side , there are political systems ( those of empires or of the European feudal societies ) in which these factors are less important than allegiance or subordination to a particular ruler or ruling group . |
| 4 | The technical literature suggests that structural factors may have been more important than price factors in explaining the persistent deficit . |
| 5 | However , there are important cases , particularly Senegal and Tanzania , where the tendency towards a national identity has been more important than localism , which is not to say that the conflict has not existed . |
| 6 | Never has it been more important that News At Ten provide a big prime-time audience . |
| 7 | This treasure-trove of collections is proof that , when it comes to home making , imagination and ingenuity are more important than money or design trends |
| 8 | Their sales campaigns have resulted , for example , in increasing consumption of white bread , confections and soft drinks among the poorest people in the world by convincing people that status , convenience , and sweet taste are more important than nutrition . |
| 9 | Personal relationships are more important than technique an productivity . |
| 10 | Principles , in my opinion , are more important than cash . ’ |
| 11 | Good sight lines are more important than evenness of chair layout . |
| 12 | In this sense , ‘ people systems ’ are more important than technology . |
| 13 | It is now known that contact and reassurance are more important than food in providing bonds of attachment and affection . |
| 14 | The lawyer may wish to eschew the elevation of efficiency if he thinks it is being pursued at the expense of other desirable goals such as fairness and equality of opportunity , goals which he may feel are more important than efficiency . |
| 15 | For B&O , form has long been as important as function , allowing it to avoid the open-sandwich school of Danish design . |
| 16 | Matters of control , both quality and quantity , have been as important as income . |
| 17 | Attitudes are as important as knowledge . |
| 18 | As with any PC product , hardware endorsements are as important as software , so at its UnixWare early access announcement last week ( UX No 388 ) Univel sewed up a bunch of supporters like WangTek and WangDat , UltraStor , SMC , Microfield , Maynard , Future Domain , DPT , Digiboard , Comtrol , Computone , Ciprico , BusTek , Arnet , Always Technology , Adaptec and 3Com . |
| 19 | But there is evidence to support my thesis that status and occupation are as important as cash . |
| 20 | I do not know whether admissions about the past are as important as agreement about the future . |
| 21 | In the broad scheme of things , Kingmaker are as important as Suede . |
| 22 | Job knowledge can be less important than willingness to learn . ’ |
| 23 | Quality can be more important than price for bed-and-breakfast customers and there is a demand for more en suite bathrooms as long as they can be fitted without changing the character of the house , and for secluded , self-catering accommodation with a rural character , rather than multiple units . |
| 24 | In the contract market , quality seems to be more important than price and it would seem to be good for the company to concentrate on contract carpet sales . |
| 25 | He was genuinely concerned for the children and considered their happiness and development as responsible citizens to be more important than exam results . |
| 26 | Both Marshall and Sweeney and our group have shown that systemic inflammation may be more important than infection in determining mortality . |
| 27 | Education , about what computers can and can not do , will be more important than training in the early stages of the project . |
| 28 | In this respect , it would seem to be more important that family relationships improve , whether or not husband and wife remain together , rather than urging parents to ‘ stick it out for the sake of the children ’ in unhappy marriages . |
| 29 | Almost 60 Tories have signed two early day motions calling for quality to be as important as money in franchise allocation . |
| 30 | How important could you from this work of making known this father 's name and kingdom , he said to his disciples my food is for me to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work why did Jesus consider God 's work to be as important as school ? |