Example sentences of "more important than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language development is more important than vocabulary building and offering dauntingly-high standards of written and spoken language . |
| 2 | The technical literature suggests that structural factors may have been more important than price factors in explaining the persistent deficit . |
| 3 | The personal , physical or expert power of leaders is therefore more important than position power alone . |
| 4 | It is evident from this quotation that the grammarians were mainly motivated not by considerations of linguistic naturalness or logic ( for example , the clash of singular and plural implicit in the use of they ; and as Bodine points out , why in any case is number concord more important than gender concord ? ) but quite explicitly by sexism . |
| 5 | Water quality is more important than water chemistry . |
| 6 | In understanding isolated sentences ( for example , the ones above , presented in a psycholinguistic experiment ) role mapping is more important than name mapping . |
| 7 | We failed to realise that product life was more important than machinery life . |
| 8 | We believe the most likely explanation is that , over 2 years , physiological age is much more important than calendar age . |
| 9 | Climate change is already more important than acid rain , genetic engineering a more topical issue than saving whales . |
| 10 | In other words , human need is more important than Sabbath law . |
| 11 | He was genuinely concerned for the children and considered their happiness and development as responsible citizens to be more important than exam results . |
| 12 | Whether one considers lawyers and doctors as more important than farm labourers and refuse collectors is simply a matter of opinion . |