Example sentences of "was [adv] important [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Form was more important than function because in some cases the efficiency of the adaptation was impaired because the Creator wished to maintain the consistency of the basic pattern . |
| 2 | Mike MacFarlane , the international sprinter from Haringey , looked back on his school years in Hackney : ‘ In those days , living was more important than education . ’ |
| 3 | Even if , to the youth , ‘ living was more important than education ’ , engaging in competitive sport can bring home the new realization that achieving results in education can be important to living . |
| 4 | Bill Shankly was only joking when he said football was more important than life and death . |
| 5 | When the course began in 1976 its tutors believed that content was more important than process . |
| 6 | We failed to realise that product life was more important than machinery life . |
| 7 | Perhaps of all psychological instruments , the IQ test symbolizes the philosophy of personal advancement and Dennis 's notion that intelligence was more important than class . |
| 8 | In her state sleep was more important than food . |
| 9 | In this new mood where religion was more important than politics , he thought he would like to see how the Church went in East London , at that time notorious as a depressed urban area within the national life . |
| 10 | To me , it was more important than politics . ’ |