Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] important [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food and drink were extremely important and luncheon might consist of pâté de foie gras , lobster , roast chicken and York ham with all the trimmings followed by pêche Melba , cheese and biscuits , crystallized fruits , coffee and liqueurs , washed down with fine wines and vast quantities of champagne . |
| 2 | This is highlighted in Gittins 's ( 1986 ) study of a Devon town in the years 1850–1930 , where she argues that relationships with kin were more important than marriage for the women in terms of the structures of support within which they were engaged . |
| 3 | Friends were more important than money . |
| 4 | So , slowly , Creggan came to learn the routine and the lore of the Zoo and , without realizing it , to let his world , which had once been so wide and full of hope and freedom , close in and grow small ; a place in which the trivial things like the way Woil talked to the Men , or where the vultures were , were more important than flight , freedom , the sky and the winds they were banned from . |
| 5 | The mythic animals are an even stronger reminder that the fresco artists were depicting another world than the everyday one ; it is a symbolic world where general concepts such as fecundity were more important than accuracy of detail . |
| 6 | Bike sheds were as important as car parking today . |
| 7 | Form was more important than function because in some cases the efficiency of the adaptation was impaired because the Creator wished to maintain the consistency of the basic pattern . |
| 8 | Mike MacFarlane , the international sprinter from Haringey , looked back on his school years in Hackney : ‘ In those days , living was more important than education . ’ |
| 9 | Even if , to the youth , ‘ living was more important than education ’ , engaging in competitive sport can bring home the new realization that achieving results in education can be important to living . |
| 10 | Bill Shankly was only joking when he said football was more important than life and death . |
| 11 | When the course began in 1976 its tutors believed that content was more important than process . |
| 12 | We failed to realise that product life was more important than machinery life . |
| 13 | Perhaps of all psychological instruments , the IQ test symbolizes the philosophy of personal advancement and Dennis 's notion that intelligence was more important than class . |
| 14 | In her state sleep was more important than food . |
| 15 | In this new mood where religion was more important than politics , he thought he would like to see how the Church went in East London , at that time notorious as a depressed urban area within the national life . |
| 16 | To me , it was more important than politics . ’ |