Example sentences of "[be] [adv] important than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The individual figures are less important than the overall picture , which illustrates the limitations of production on a small farm and the unavoidable expenses . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Class origins are less important than the objective function of serving the interests of the ruling class . |
| 5 | Cairncross ( 1949 ) has argued that , as rural-urban migration in the nineteenth century was greater in the more prosperous farming areas surrounding towns , the attraction , or ‘ pull ’ , of alternative jobs and higher wages must have been more important than the ‘ push ’ from the decline of farm jobs and the low wages in farming . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the heating of the smoke plume due to its absorption of solar energy may have been more important than the reduced surface heating such that a net warming of the lower atmosphere produced a slight enhancement of the Asian summer monsoon overall ( Browning et al. , 1991 ) or over specific areas such as the Tibetan plateau ( Bakan et al. , 1991 ) . |
| 7 | Maybe the listening had always been more important than the absolution . |
| 8 | Thus one social argument which might be mobilised in favour of the rule in the Attorney-General 's Reference case is that the savings of medical expenses resulting from conformity with the law are more important than the liberty of individual citizens to engage in fights . |
| 9 | It is always wise to remember that the seeds are more important than the nurse crop . |
| 10 | If they believe ( as they often do ) that human needs and interests are more important than the needs and interests of nonhuman animals , then they can — and , in fact , they often do — believe that we are justified in causing significant pain to animals , even if they belong to endangered species . |
| 11 | They have 10 different things in America which are more important than the Davis Cup ’ . |
| 12 | Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract . |
| 13 | But the techniques discussed in this book are more important than the frequency of their use would suggest , for a number of reasons . |
| 14 | Attitudes and motivation are more important than the ability to learn and apply rules dogmatically . |
| 15 | The company 's position is that ‘ People are more important than the equipment , because of the necessity of understanding it , maintaining it , and running it ’ ( SA Motor , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | There is now substantial clinical ( Bocca , Calearo , Cassinari and Migliavacca , 1955 ; Oxbury and Oxbury , 1969 ; Celesia , 1976 ) and experimental ( Rosenzweig , 1951 ; Satz , Levy and Tyson , 1970 ; Majkowski , Bochenek , Bochenek , Knapic-Fijalkowska and Kopec , 1971 ; Andreassi , De Simone , Friend and Grota , 1975 ; Mononen and Seitz , 1977 ) evidence to support the view that the crossed pathways are more important than the uncrossed pathways in transmitting auditory information . |
| 17 | Accuracy and steadiness under pressure are more important than the ability to produce the odd unplayable ball . |
| 18 | Our results demonstrate that the clusters of basic amino acids are more important than the zinc fingers for the interactions of NC protein with DNA in vitro , although a role for the zinc fingers in specificity of interaction or in facilitating its many functions can not be excluded . |
| 19 | Others are aimed mainly at a middle-aged market , where comfort and quality are more important than the current fashion . |
| 20 | ‘ People and their problems are more important than the airplanes ’ . |
| 21 | The presentation is somewhat terse as the principles are more important than the details . |
| 22 | My personal objection , obligations are more important than the company ones . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | The impression is that we are fast reaching the stage where the actual scoring of goals will be less important than the manoeuvres which follow . |
| 26 | The majority of bird netting is likely to be knotted ( this produces a fine and very flexible net ) or knitted , but the thickness of the thread is likely to be more important than the type of assembly . |
| 27 | ‘ But nothing can be more important than the Business Plan , ’ Mark insisted . |
| 28 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 29 | The railway stations created new settlements , some of which indeed were ultimately to be more important than the traditional towns they were supposed to serve . |
| 30 | How can the colour of your bum be more important than the safety of your brain , unless the BSJA supports the dressage riders ' theory that show jumpers are brain dead anyway ? |