Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [adv] important " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 2 | Orme 's output totalled some 700 illustrations , but his monument is his British Field Sports of 1807 , described by C. F. G. R. Schwerdt ( 1928 ) as ‘ the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries ’ . |
| 3 | The company is now recognised as one of the largest and most important manufacturers of veterinary ethical pharmaceutical products in the world , with own-label and contract manufacturing services provided . |
| 4 | The largest and most important of these is the prostate gland . |
| 5 | A new nature reserve on the Somerset Levels , near Glastonbury , which will eventually form part of one of the largest and most important wetlands in Europe , has been formally opened by Sir David Attenborough . |
| 6 | The renewed debate over whether to close the entire ancient centre of Rome to traffic , and in particular the Via dei Fori Imperiali which runs from Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum , slicing in half one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in the world , is charged with political meaning . |
| 7 | The largest and most important cities of the Empire are Altdorf , Nuln , Talabheim and Middenheim . |
| 8 | This is one of the largest and most important of all the constellations . |
| 9 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 10 | The mouth of the River Exe is the largest and most important estuary for birds in the south-west peninsula of Devon and Cornwall . |
| 11 | By far the largest and most important of this type of town , curiously ignored by Professor Hoskins here , and elsewhere . |
| 12 | National assertiveness reached the largest and most important of the Soviet Union 's republics , the Russian , in May 1990 , following the elections to the republican Congress of People 's Deputies in which radical candidates had won a substantial proportion of the vote ( see above , p. 59 ) . |
| 13 | The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor . |
| 14 | It was reported on Oct. 22 that Iraq had expelled members of the Mujaheddin e-Khalq , based in Baghdad and the largest and most important dissident group opposed to the Iranian regime . |
| 15 | Parental responsibility should be treated as the greatest and most important undertaking of human life , albeit the one potentially holding out the promise of the greatest happiness . |
| 16 | Arising from the deutocerebrum are four pairs of nerves : the antenna/nerves are the longest and most important , and are the sensory nerves of the antennae though the motor fibres mentioned next are also present in the same nerve ; each has two roots , one of which is derived from the antennal lobe of its side and the other from the dorsal lobe . |
| 17 | Rich deme evidence comes from Eleusis , one of the proudest and most important of the deme sites , partly because of its sanctuary to Demeter and Kore where the cults of the great Eleusinian mystery religion were performed , partly because of a too often forgotten feature of the place : its defences . |
| 18 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 19 | But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries . |
| 20 | The second and most important divining technique involves an oracular substance ( benge ) which is credited by the Zande with possessing the power of distinguishing between contrary propositions and thus solving human dilemmas . |
| 21 | The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world . |
| 22 | The second and more important lack is that of any real constitutional analysis of the crisis . |
| 23 | The second and more important reason is to impose liability on the vendor in the event that the assets are inadequate or defective or the vendor does not have adequate title . |
| 24 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 25 | But the larger and more important the elected body , the more likely it was that women 's suitability — and especially married women 's suitability — would be called into question . |
| 26 | The traditional and most important essence of life was obtaining a good education , which to the black immigrants was the key to success , a way out of the ruck . |
| 27 | When anyone is running a factory they map out every tiny detail , saying when the smallest and most important things shall be done , and by whom . |
| 28 | Even with everything mechanical working and at the right temperature , you can still unbalance the biological and most important part of the system very easily . |
| 29 | More formal was the Privy Seal office , where King or Council had their administrative orders drawn up in traditional and , if necessary , legal language , and authenticated by the older and more important Privy Seal . |
| 30 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |