Example sentences of "[be] [adv] important [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Job knowledge can be less important than willingness to learn . ’ |
| 2 | Quality can be more important than price for bed-and-breakfast customers and there is a demand for more en suite bathrooms as long as they can be fitted without changing the character of the house , and for secluded , self-catering accommodation with a rural character , rather than multiple units . |
| 3 | In the contract market , quality seems to be more important than price and it would seem to be good for the company to concentrate on contract carpet sales . |
| 4 | He was genuinely concerned for the children and considered their happiness and development as responsible citizens to be more important than exam results . |
| 5 | Both Marshall and Sweeney and our group have shown that systemic inflammation may be more important than infection in determining mortality . |
| 6 | Education , about what computers can and can not do , will be more important than training in the early stages of the project . |
| 7 | In this respect , it would seem to be more important that family relationships improve , whether or not husband and wife remain together , rather than urging parents to ‘ stick it out for the sake of the children ’ in unhappy marriages . |
| 8 | Almost 60 Tories have signed two early day motions calling for quality to be as important as money in franchise allocation . |
| 9 | How important could you from this work of making known this father 's name and kingdom , he said to his disciples my food is for me to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work why did Jesus consider God 's work to be as important as school ? |
| 10 | Foliage will be as important as flower , and we 'll need to think about texture — rough leaves versus smooth ; tall spiky plants to set against rounded shapes and so on . |
| 11 | Other than in the early stages of a completely new programme it also requires evaluation of existing training , so that evaluation may be as important as identification of needs . |
| 12 | While the distribution of resources will inevitably continue to be uneven , it should be emphasized that awareness of , and use made of resources can be as important as funding or staff available . |
| 13 | With some products , particularly new ones , advertising to the trade can be as important as advertising to the consumer . |
| 14 | Most starch and fibre sources come largely under the heading of complex carbohydrates — now known to be as important as protein to a healthy diet . |
| 15 | This will be increasingly important as cash becomes much tighter in Courtaulds . |
| 16 | However , they give little information about the obstetric features of their cases , which might be quite important since matching is essential with such small numbers — for example , were the babies predominantly born during preterm labour or were they delivered electively for some obstetric complication ? |