Example sentences of "[adv] important [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that the records available considerably underestimate winter numbers as the Coot 's status on less important areas of water is very imperfectly known . |
| 2 | Any quality assurance programme should encompass the concepts of effectiveness in achieving the benefits desired and efficiency in reaching and giving priority to the people for whom the service is intended ; it is also important to ensure that money is spent effectively and not expended on other less important areas of need . |
| 3 | In contrast lung cancer is a much less important cause of death for older women . |
| 4 | To work merely at sentence level is to ignore crucially important aspects of text . |
| 5 | A thorough understanding of the landscape and the economic structure of society lies in the future , but the need to understand the context and role of the numerous artefacts that have been excavated , particularly in cemeteries , makes this a crucially important area of research . |
| 6 | Feminist psychologists are anxious to connect with other critical psychologies , and methodology offers an especially important means of building bridges within the discipline . |
| 7 | ( Evidently , a study of language through the categories of causality , chance , measurement , statistics , etc could also miss the all important factor of meaning , in a similar way . ) |
| 8 | That The Smiths dismiss the all important mediums of video fashion and Fairlight affected pulsebeat , yet maintain their status as an immensely successful chart band , is itself a feat worthy of praise . |
| 9 | Finally , unless you can afford both , you will probably choose either a fast " daisywheel " printer or one of the new breed of correspondence quality " dot matrix " printers with a high resolution graphics capability — possibly even colour as well for graphical presentation of results Third , the all important choice of software . |
| 10 | going out of the classroom and using what you know is an extremely important part of language learning . |
| 11 | The principle difference was that characteristics relating to academic background particularly A-level results were not important predictors of non-completion among females at all , but were extremely important predictors of non-completion among males . |
| 12 | It is also an extremely important form of property , and rights of access to it are governed by legislation and custom . |
| 13 | Sir , I invite you attach no importance at all to that ridiculous concept in relation to this highly important piece of land . |
| 14 | Trusted paper became both a collateral for short-term credit and an immensely important medium of exchange . |
| 15 | Mother 's education has a more marked influence upon the survival of children aged 1–4 years than upon infants since , at these older ages , the biological and physiological factors are less influential and social and economic conditions become the more important determinants of health and mortality . |
| 16 | Among the more important qualities of water as we receive it from our supply sources are its pH and its hardness . |
| 17 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 18 | Modern scholars , conscious of the large issues involved in this struggle , have generally found this intrusion of the local and material interests of the church of Canterbury at a critical moment incomprehensible , and having their eyes fixed on the historically more important matters of investiture and homage , they have supposed that Anselm 's eyes must also have been similarly directed . |
| 19 | A majority of his sample reported that the wife typically performed a distinct range of domestic and child-rearing tasks considerably more often than the husband , and also that she deferred to the husband in more important areas of decision-making . |
| 20 | Consequently due diligence forms a larger and more important part of share sales than of asset sales and in terms of legal costs can be an expensive process . |
| 21 | She could not find any reason why Benny Hogan from the shop across the road and Eve Malone from the convent up the town should not sit and drink coffee in her bay window , but somehow she would have preferred to keep the space for wealthier and more important matrons of Knockglen . |
| 22 | This suspension was justified by senior staff on the grounds that in producing grandiose schemes for the further development of the infrastructure it was neglecting the more important area of study skills and its pivotal role in articulating library resources with the curriculum . |
| 23 | Wendy ( played by Maggie Smith plus wrinkly make-up ) has to stay in the Wendy house , while grown-up Peter forgets all about his kidnapped daughter , and concentrates instead on the more important business of bonding with his kidnapped son . |
| 24 | In warmer climates , where conditions are often unsuitable for larval survival , the carrier animal is probably a more important source of pasture contamination and outbreaks of disease in lambs and kids are most likely to occur after a period of prolonged rain around the time of weaning . |
| 25 | Although we tend to think of industrial effluent , sewage is a more important source of pollution . |
| 26 | In Iceland , however , where limpets are scarce or absent , dog-whelks are a much more important source of food to the oystercatcher ( references in Cramp et al. , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | In this chapter we shall examine only some of the more important types of stratification structure . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , they were one of the more important points of contact , since they were responsible for determining the political complexion of the House of Commons . |
| 29 | I want , therefore , to illustrate how marking can be concerned with spelling , punctuation and structure , but can also simultaneously pay attention to the more important aspects of writing — what the writer is trying to do , and whether he has achieved it . |
| 30 | In its reply the profession , while acknowledging its willingness to co-operate in the provision of relevant additional information , expressed concern that concentration on expenses and charges , while ignoring more important aspects of product and company selection such as the investment return , might not be in the best interests of consumers . |