Example sentences of "important than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People agreed with Lord Henry , who once said , in his amusing way , that a good dinner was more important than a good life . |
| 2 | Speed of scoring , flowing from a range of strokes , is more important than a watertight technique . |
| 3 | This is more important than a long nose , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 4 | The general qualities of those appointed as judges , chairmen or lay members of tribunals , are considered more important than a detailed knowledge of the law relating to the particular types of dispute likely to be considered by those persons . |
| 5 | One human life was more important than a whole herd of pigs . |
| 6 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 7 | In 1939 nearly everyone had a direct or indirect memory of mass warfare and mindless patriotism was much less important than a conscious commitment to the idea that aggressive fascism could not be stopped by any method short of war . |
| 8 | He thinks this is more important than a high turnover of staff , despite the fresh minds and attitudes this may encourage . |
| 9 | A high level of linguistic competence is obviously an advantage but a flair for friendship is more important than an impeccable accent or a perfect lexicon . |
| 10 | Where we have a different point of view is the point of view that says that a general education which will train the mind erm and expand capacity for judgement and so on , erm is perhaps more important than an exact knowledge of erm some particular political science theory . |
| 11 | Others are aimed mainly at a middle-aged market , where comfort and quality are more important than the current fashion . |
| 12 | Nate could n't possibly have believed that the Turkish problem was more important than the European Plan . |
| 13 | But two other factors were more important than the simple diversity of organisations . |
| 14 | Times have changed — and got greener — so that some typical decorations like coral are no longer acceptable , while style and fashion has made a good-looking living picture in your lounge far more important than the simple challenge of keeping pet fish alive . |
| 15 | Whether or not this small-scale self-publication works in terms of sales is less important than the extraordinary experience it can provide : that of working hard with a few other writers at making something , putting something into print . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ It is more important than the general election itself that we maintain a constitution that has served us well for generations , and ought not to be lightly tampered with for party political purposes in the midst of the general election . ’ |
| 17 | The selection of an anecdote to narrate the significance of an occasion is more important than the general sense of what was actually said or done . |
| 18 | It seemed more important than the Triple Crown and the world championship put together . |
| 19 | The amount of moisture left in it became even more important than the substantial amount of relatively thick green grass left on it . |
| 20 | There really was a time when some thought that trade union leaders were more important than the Prime Minister and the Cabinet ; when families were stopped from buying the council homes they lived in ; when we were taxed more heavily on our incomes and savings than almost anyone else in the developed world ; when many of our most important industries were run at enormous loss by the State . |
| 21 | The mastery of a new urban idiom or style was more important than the specific content of any one film , and , as we have seen , anything that departed too far from tradition was not regarded as good box-office . |
| 22 | It may well be that factors other than orthofunction are producing these improvements ; factors such as better resourcing , a purposeful environment , the amount of time spent in active learning each day , or the one-to-one relationship with conductors , may be equally or more important than the specific application of the technique of orthofunction itself . |
| 23 | The individual figures are less important than the overall picture , which illustrates the limitations of production on a small farm and the unavoidable expenses . |
| 24 | In practice , the adherence to a clearly defined policy for fetal heart rate monitoring may be more important than the actual method itself . |
| 25 | Statistics , he claimed , were incompetently used , while sanitary science still perpetuated the pernicious myth that questions of back-to-back housing , privies and breast-feeding were more important than the hereditary character of the parents . |
| 26 | This analysis is often more important than the basic result . |
| 27 | You can extend this time if necessary to have it happen at a suitably dramatic moment ; the staging of the event is more important than the exact time . |
| 28 | He thinks that a proportional representation voting system is more important than the constitutional future of Scotland . |
| 29 | In a detailed examination of the issue , Donnison and Soto ( 1980 ) argue that , on the whole it does not , i.e. that location is more important than the social composition of an area for the individual . |
| 30 | But then the cricket at the Parks is perhaps less important than the social festival it brings with it . |