Example sentences of "they have important [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although they acted more as employees than as members of a profession , they had important positions within the companies for which they worked .
2 In their critique of unmanaged capitalism and of colonialism this was especially so , and , together with the related Fabians , they had important influence on the evolution of the working-class Labour Party into a specific kind of social democracy .
3 If they had important people like er such as Mark and his wife , the pianist , erm you 've heard of him of course .
4 Mr Major signalled it was business as usual when he welcomed new Welsh Secretary John Redwood at the morning 's Cabinet and told ministers they had important issues to deal with .
5 The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections .
6 In this , they have important strengths , and they can teach students skills which courses concentrating on formal features of language often omit : how to greet people , or how to maintain polite contact while listening on the telephone .
7 These statistics can easily seem impenetrable and tedious , but they have important light to throw if we can tease out their implications .
8 Although baby universes may not be of much use for space travel , they have important implications for our attempt to find a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe .
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