Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [conj] important " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will not say what the item is , claiming ( reasonably ) that she wo n't divulge the secret of a valuable or important item to people she does not know and can hardly be expected to trust . |
| 2 | A splinter group of the NPFL , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , had emerged by this time as a separate and important force . |
| 3 | Sleaford was described as a flourishing and important market town that had been ‘ much improved and beautified during the present century ’ ; its population had risen from 1,483 to 3,372 between 1801 and 1851 . |
| 4 | At the same time , the public hears little about a surprising and important discovery — not an assumption — of psychometrics . |
| 5 | With a new and important addition from the Swiss detective agency . |
| 6 | There is evidence on both questions , from a unique and important data source : the MRC 's follow-up study of the 1946 birth cohort , the National Survey of Health and Development , which also provided material for some of Kathleen Kiernan 's research discussed in chapter 3 . |
| 7 | In a recent and important case concerning copyright in weekly television programme listings , the Court held that it is an abuse for a copyrightholder to use its copyright to prevent the introduction of a new product for which there is potential commercial demand , into a market of which the copyrightholder has a monopoly . |
| 8 | Holland thus leads us to a dynamic and important role of reading : ‘ The psychoanalytic theory of literature holds that the writer expresses and disguises childhood fantasies . |
| 9 | Reference must also be made to a brief but important statement by the Privy Council , in the course of an elaborate opinion , largely concerned with other matters , in Government of the United States of America v. Bowe [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 500 . |
| 10 | The aftermath of the war did oblige Mrs Thatcher to engage in a piece of Cabinet reform on a small but important scale . |
| 11 | Although Lord Cairns regarded the principles applicable as extremely simple , it seems clear that the common law was faced by a new and important problem which could not be solved by merely applying the existing authorities . |
| 12 | They were also , since they were increasingly used by a small but important educated public , a link between diplomacy and the wider social world in which it operated . |