Example sentences of "important as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because as recognized a century ago by Ravenstein ( 1885 , 1889 ) most movement takes place over shorter distances , migration 's role in population change becomes more important as the spatial scale of analysis descends . |
| 2 | My election chances are not as important as the good name of the party . |
| 3 | ‘ Personality , character and commitment ’ , the DES note , are as important as the specific knowledge and skills that are used in the day-to-day tasks of teaching . |
| 4 | Just as important as the specific commitment is the general recognition that older people have potential in the same way as the rest of the population , and that this should be given the chance to develop . |
| 5 | As important as the planned content of teaching — the knowledge , skills and understandings of the National Curriculum — are the messages conveyed to children about their status as learners , about the value of the ideas and understandings they bring to teaching encounters , about the control they have over their own learning , about what it is to be a successful learner . |
| 6 | That music to me is as important as the famous tenor aria in G flat major — now how many other arias can you think of in that key ? |
| 7 | He also stressed that the personal satisfaction in working for a small firm was as important as the financial contribution the sector made to the economy . |
| 8 | From the Securitate 's point of view , belief in the omnipresence of its surveillance was often as important as the actual capacity to intercept everybody 's telephone calls . |
| 9 | ( 1983 ) , who used partial data ( unemployment registers classified by last employment ) for the period 1979–82 to conclude that the regional north/south split was as important as the urban/rural split , and that future growth would probably be dominated by free-standing towns in the ‘ sun-belt ’ of the southeast . |
| 10 | The work of the pathologists is very important in aircraft accident investigation and AIB regard the detailed examination of the bodies of those killed as being as important as the detailed examination of the aircraft structure or its engines . |
| 11 | Press announcements are as important as the formal offer or defence documents which follow . |
| 12 | Recall that in Halliday 's analysis of Lok 's language , the rarity of certain categories ( eg transitive verbs ) was just as important as the high frequency of others : the most striking features of Lok 's language were its limitations . |
| 13 | The Royal Society 's report accepts that people 's attitudes to risks are just as important as the numerical value of the probability of the risk being realised . |
| 14 | But any political project which hopes to inspire ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ must be rooted in a new kind of pragmatism , one which takes into account political realities and realises that the immediate goal of a higher standard of living and a greater degree of self-determination for all is as important as the long- term goal of a classless society . |
| 15 | Sartorial elegance , though , is not so important as the playing style which makes Ferguson the natural partner for McCoist in Lisbon . |