Example sentences of "a small [conj] important " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is even a small but important market for English seeded hops in Belgium , and the United States with its burgeoning microbrewing industry . |
| 2 | But to end our book on jet-lag and shift-work would be too negative , and so we will end by describing an area in which the knowledge of daily rhythms has enabled a small but important contribution to medicine to be made — the diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease . |
| 3 | The aftermath of the war did oblige Mrs Thatcher to engage in a piece of Cabinet reform on a small but important scale . |
| 4 | This is a small but important point at which geometers and M. C. Escher do go further ; as , for example , Escher 's Sphere Surface with Fishes or his Circle Limit series . |
| 5 | A small but important African press existed in South Africa . |
| 6 | Thus it was a small but important beginning . |
| 7 | The signal box at Bradley Fold West , situated between Bolton and Bury , was a small but important unit miles from anywhere controlling the up and down main lines and both goods loops . |
| 8 | Third , there is a small but important category of provision deriving authority from Section 137 in the Local Government Act 1972 which allowed local authorities to spend the product of a rate of 2p in the pound on anything ‘ which in their opinion is in the interests of their area or any part of it or all or some of its inhabitants ’ . |
| 9 | Yet when a chance came to her — a few extra lines , a small but important part — she would forget to learn the lines , forget to come in on cue and for a while would not be asked again . |
| 10 | They were also , since they were increasingly used by a small but important educated public , a link between diplomacy and the wider social world in which it operated . |
| 11 | A small but important part of Middlesbrough 's Vistorian heritage is to be saved and restored and used as an education centre . |
| 12 | Clearly there is still much to be done , but whatever choices are made we all have a small but important part to play . |