Example sentences of "more important than [noun sg] [noun sg] " 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 personal , physical or expert power of leaders is therefore more important than position power alone . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Water quality is more important than water chemistry . |
5 | In understanding isolated sentences ( for example , the ones above , presented in a psycholinguistic experiment ) role mapping is more important than name mapping . |
6 | We failed to realise that product life was more important than machinery life . |
7 | We believe the most likely explanation is that , over 2 years , physiological age is much more important than calendar age . |
8 | Climate change is already more important than acid rain , genetic engineering a more topical issue than saving whales . |
9 | In other words , human need is more important than Sabbath law . |