Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] important [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries . |
| 4 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 5 | Goodfellow , who had played an opaque and evidently important role in advising Rhee in 1945–46 , left Korea in May . |
| 6 | Mother churches tended to guard their privileges jealously and even in the nineteenth century some daughter churches and chapels were still dependent in some respects on the more ancient or more important mother church . |
| 7 | The traditional and most important essence of life was obtaining a good education , which to the black immigrants was the key to success , a way out of the ruck . |
| 8 | Chronic radiation enteritis is now recognised as a frequent and clinically important sequel of abdominal and pelvic irradiation treatment for malignant disease . |
| 9 | Stephen Spender divides writers into ‘ contemporaries ’ and ‘ moderns ’ ( 1962:555 ) ; Malcolm Bradbury distinguishes between the main current of fiction and peripheral but nevertheless important work by people like Samuel Beckett , Malcolm Lowry , William Golding , and Lawrence Durrell ( 1973 ) ; and Iris Murdoch draws a distinction between the ‘ journalistic ’ and the ‘ crystalline ’ which delineates similar categories . |
| 10 | At the general level there is indeed already a wide consensus that managing schools in the future will be different — but once we move from the most general to more specific views , there is considerable and very important diversity as to the nature of those changes . |
| 11 | Even with everything mechanical working and at the right temperature , you can still unbalance the biological and most important part of the system very easily . |
| 12 | A charcuterie in Aurillac or Vic-sur-Cère or some other small but locally important town will possibly provide a pâté the like of which you never tasted before , or a locally cured ham , a few slices of which you will buy and carry away with a salad , a kilo of peaches , a bottle of Monbazillac and a baton of bread , and somewhere on a hillside amid the mile upon mile of golden broom or close to a splashing waterfall you will have , just for once , the ideal picnic . |
| 13 | The main purpose of the exhibition ‘ Leonardo e Venezia ’ now at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice ( until 5 July ) is to display the small but very important group of Leonardo 's drawings preserved in the Accademia . |
| 14 | That is the vital and most important thing that has been done . |
| 15 | Japan for instance , our largest single and most important market , has consistently increased beer sales by 6–7 per cent over the past three years . |
| 16 | One well-known and very important point about experimental work which emerges clearly from the studies discussed in this section is that in order to frame a specific hypothesis the experimenter needs to have acquired in advance a good deal of detailed knowledge ; Plutchik ( 1974 ) emphasizes this in his discussion of the applicability of experimental versus observational methods . |
| 17 | Taken together with the author 's Building & Civil Engineering Standard Forms ( 1969 with 1970 and 1973 Supplements ) and the tenth edition of Hudson 's Building and Engineering Contracts ( 1970 ) which is edited by the author , this book gives the practitioner sound and practical assistance on virtually any problem which may confront him in this difficult and increasingly important area of law . |
| 18 | ‘ He will be , as they say , a hard act to follow , but the board will rally round whoever is chosen for this difficult and very important job . |
| 19 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |
| 20 | I welcome NI tackling the difficult but vitally important issue of Debt ( Dicing with Debt NI 189 ) . |
| 21 | the chosen site must not interfere with or reduce the value of scenic and recreation areas , nor must the habitats of rare or otherwise important plant and animal species be disturbed ; |
| 22 | Section 4 of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 adds a new and more important form of interlocutory relief , available in the county court and High Court , whereby goods the subject of present or future proceedings for wrongful interference may be ordered to be delivered up to the claimant , or a person appointed by the court , on such terms and conditions as may be specified . |
| 23 | In addition , it was widely believed in the 1950s that nuclear fission would be a cheap and increasingly important source of energy in the future . |
| 24 | Peter Brown in his most recent and profoundly important book Body and Society demonstrates movingly how sexuality had so different a social meaning from what it now carries that the sexual abstinences , the noisy and sometimes virulent demands for chastity and virginity , within the early Church , far from being a symptom of self-hatred and dualism , were a radical political claim to the coming of the Kingdom : a claim which women , sometimes even more than men , could make . |
| 25 | While Ross was fighting to save his business — rather like David against Goliath — he really could n't be expected to deal with the boringly mundane but nevertheless important work of running the apartment as efficiently as possible . |
| 26 | In the large Mayo clinic series of pelvic J reservoirs with mucosal proctectomy , mean bowel frequency was 11 in 24 hours in patients over 50 years of age compared with seven in 24 hours in patients under 50 , a statistically significant and clinically important difference . |
| 27 | One way to reduce unemployment would be to attack the problems of a less glamorous but equally important technology . |
| 28 | Disgorgers are a minor but very important piece of tackle . |