Example sentences of "have [been] [art] important [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there has been no important relaxation of the qualifying conditions over the years , it is more than likely that social class access to benefit has remained the same . |
| 2 | This has been an important year for the development of Enterprise Training services . |
| 3 | In the 1980s there has been an important adjustment in both exchange rates and agricultural pricing policy largely as a result of pressure from international aid agencies . |
| 4 | On the hon. Gentleman 's first point , there is no doubt that the duty differential in favour of unleaded petrol has been an important catalyst for the increased take-up of unleaded petrol , but the need for further changes to the duty differential is , as the hon. Gentleman knows , a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor . |
| 5 | Interpretation of the results of these studies has been an important battleground for theoretical disputes over the nature of perceptual learning . |
| 6 | But there has been an important exception . |
| 7 | The study of groups in work situations has been an important activity of behavioural scientists ever since the pioneering work of the Hawthorne Researchers over fifty years ago . |
| 8 | It is probably more common now in Kent than in Sussex , though there has been an important herd on the Leconfield estate at Petworth for some 200 years , where there is an increasing tendency to introduce Limousin blood into the breed . |
| 9 | ‘ Activity over 12 months of the year has been an important factor . |
| 10 | Indeed , it has actually been an idea of mine for some time that the retaining of unnecessary numbers simply for tradition 's sake — resulting in employees having an unhealthy amount of time on their hands — has been an important factor in the sharp decline in professional standards . |
| 11 | And it is crucial to recognize that widespread racial discrimination has been an important factor in reproducing these patterns of employment and settlement and , as we shall see , also has a significant role in explanations of levels of achievement by black pupils in British schools . |
| 12 | This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies . |
| 13 | David Rush ( striker ) : The young striker 's seemingly inexhaustible store of energy has been an important factor in the Cup run . |
| 14 | Showing visitors the links between agriculture and the landscape has been an important part of the thinking behind each weekend 's programme . |
| 15 | My dialogue with them has been an important part of the process of valuing their own contributions . |
| 16 | Community responsibility has been an important part of Guinness ' corporate philosophy since the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Experimental phonetics has been an important part of phonetics for almost a century , and experimental work in phonetics laboratories has produced many important discoveries about how speech is produced and perceived . |
| 18 | Medau has been an important part of my life since I started attending regular classes in 1975 . |
| 19 | This has been an important influence in promoting a communicative approach to the teaching of languages . |
| 20 | But , on the whole , the Manchester experiment has been an important breakthrough in the campaign to make the local state more accessible to its lesbian and gay citizens . |
| 21 | the athlete has been an important person and model of success for Black youth for a long time . |
| 22 | Most camcorders arc designed to be hand-held , so the minimisation of size and weight has been an important consideration . |
| 23 | And Singh ( 1977 ) , who has been an important protagonist in the debate over deindustrialization , defines it in terms of the economy 's ability to sell enough of its products abroad to pay for the nation 's import requirements , and to do these things while maintaining ‘ socially acceptable levels of output , employment and the exchange rate ’ ( p. 125 ) . |
| 24 | These conditions can also lead to selective out-migration , which has been an important feature shaping the social geography of certain rural areas . |
| 25 | As already mentioned , a refusal to enter into the merits of business judgment has been an important feature of the courts ' attitude towards directors ' negligence , and it is suggested that the basis of this refusal is , to an extent , well-founded . |
| 26 | There has been an important development in the hunt for a rapist suspected of attacking more than twenty women in the North-West . |
| 27 | Wool has been an important product of the region since the earliest days of home spinning and weaving produced a coarse grey cloth known as ‘ hodden ’ . |
| 28 | Let me be personal here , for coming to grips with this has been an important milestone in my own life as a Christian . |
| 29 | This dramatic dimension has been an important aspect of rockets from the German 1944 V-2s onwards and of satellites from the Soviet 1957 Sputnik onwards . |
| 30 | Interaction within groups has been an important focus of study by behavioural scientists . |