Example sentences of "more important than [noun] [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 | His story was obviously more important than Joseph de Jussieu 's — or mine . |
| 6 | Water quality is more important than water chemistry . |
| 7 | In understanding isolated sentences ( for example , the ones above , presented in a psycholinguistic experiment ) role mapping is more important than name mapping . |
| 8 | We failed to realise that product life was more important than machinery life . |
| 9 | We believe the most likely explanation is that , over 2 years , physiological age is much more important than calendar age . |
| 10 | So why I 'm I 'm slightly puzzled as to why Robert Atkins is actually more important than John Selwyn Gummer ? |
| 11 | Climate change is already more important than acid rain , genetic engineering a more topical issue than saving whales . |
| 12 | More important than George Darley ? |
| 13 | In other words , human need is more important than Sabbath law . |
| 14 | Income inequalities among those in employment have been widened by inequitable wages policies , but even more important than wages policies as a means of promoting inequality have been changes in the tax system . |
| 15 | He was genuinely concerned for the children and considered their happiness and development as responsible citizens to be more important than exam results . |
| 16 | Whether one considers lawyers and doctors as more important than farm labourers and refuse collectors is simply a matter of opinion . |
| 17 | Media coverage of politics near to elections is more important than media coverage at non-election times . |
| 18 | Prioritisation was necessary , he said , citing the example that tree death was more important than fish death , which was sad but economically unimportant . |