Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] been important " in BNC.
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| 1 | This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation . |
| 2 | IN football parlance ‘ doing the business ’ on the field has always been important in the game . |
| 3 | ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure . |
| 4 | Foreign technical assistance has also been important . |
| 5 | Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash , which was chosen as the site for a Royal Naval base and dockyard . |
| 6 | Grain has always been important as an indicator of national well-being and prosperity , with bulging granaries more important to security in the long term than the missile silos which often share the same farmlands . |
| 7 | Food hygiene and quality have always been important to McDonald 's . |
| 8 | For sexually active people outside a long-term monogamous relationship , safe sex has always been important because of the danger of sexually transmitted diseases ( STDs ) — most commonly genital warts , syphilis and gonorrhoea . |
| 9 | Animal welfare and health had always been important to the Danes , he said . |
| 10 | The brain has also been important for studying the organization of the PKC family which is colocalized with the IP 3 R system . |
| 11 | Shearer explains : ‘ The fact that childhood has never been important enough to create an educational project around it shows how little thought is given to it . ’ |
| 12 | Okay , so er , transport technology has certainly been important in er , increasing trade . |
| 13 | The dual division of ecclesiastical power has also been important because the religious orders have often been the vehicle for innovative theologies differing from the Roman line . |
| 14 | Comfort had never been important to him . |
| 15 | But questions about autonomy , and related questions about self and identity have also been important to feminism , and within feminist thinking it is possible to find radically different ways of thinking about these things . |