Example sentences of "important [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been important enough to warrant a strong , positive reaction , whereas Rob was just a pleasant friend , but nothing really special . |
| 2 | If the product to be sampled is important enough to rate a press launch then this is the obvious time to organise the sampling . |
| 3 | Shearer explains : ‘ The fact that childhood has never been important enough to create an educational project around it shows how little thought is given to it . ’ |
| 4 | This subject is important enough to justify a book in its own right . |
| 5 | Here he obviously considered the pharmaceutical value of this plant important enough to include an illustration , and he felt the economic significance of Rubia tinctorum , madder , warranted an engraving by John Sebastian Miller , from Hortus Cliffortianus . |
| 6 | We believe that it 's important enough to ask the general tennis playing public for its views . |
| 7 | Herod Antipas , tetrarch ( a title for a ruler who was not considered important enough to have the rank of king ; again it amounted to being a ‘ governor ’ ) of Galilee . |
| 8 | However , he did consider this event important enough to send a report to an Australian station on Lord Howe Island . |
| 9 | Ollie had then built up the impression that he actually had a right to all these advantages and was , therefore , a very important dog in the pack — not important enough to challenge the humans , but able to get their attention when he wanted it , and to defend his position against Stan . |
| 10 | When , however , a sentence " has time " to introduce the supernumerary information contained in a non-restrictive clause , but apparently fails to introduce the information on which the definite article relies , despite the definiteness being felt important enough to deserve an intensifier , then the sentence has a dislocated feel to it and the very is left dangling ; this is the case of sentence ( 23 ) . |
| 11 | Peregrine did n't think he was important enough to interest the Special Branch . |
| 12 | Laura , however , declined on the grounds that she was not nearly important enough to share the limelight with such august people . |
| 13 | That Merymose had died because he had discovered something important enough to threaten the killer was clear , and Huy knew that his own reluctance to take the policeman into his confidence had been one indirect reason for his death . |
| 14 | She stresses that the reader should not focus on the behaviour of the mother in the novel to the exclusion of all else ; ‘ It 's very important not to see a novel as summing up the entire state of women — yes there are weak women but there are also very strong women . |
| 15 | erm I think it 's important not to see the city as a sort of down-trodden , poor , hard-working , well , I 'm sure they were hard-working , but very poor people . |
| 16 | Because Karajan was a legend in his own lifetime and thus in some ways indistinguishable from the legendary figures of the past , it is important not to overlook the ways in which he effected a thoroughly modern revolution in both the method and the manner of orchestral training . |
| 17 | In the enthusiasm to challenge the injustice in the system it is important not to overlook the needs of the teachers . |
| 18 | When developing good relationships , too , it is important not to judge the other person too soon . |
| 19 | It is important not to despise the use of defences . |
| 20 | The men who inserted these phrases knew what they were doing , and they knew also that it was important not to overdo the subject of the primacy . |
| 21 | It is important not to touch the rash . |
| 22 | It is important not to allow a mechanical aid , however powerful , to interfere with the careful specification of analytic goals and the selection of appropriate means of attaining them . |
| 23 | It is important not to confuse a collar and a ‘ choke chain ’ . |
| 24 | It 's also very important not to treat a confused person as a child . |
| 25 | FIGURE 2 In scumbling , the aim is to create a light and airy surface so it is important not to overload the brush or stay too long in one area . |
| 26 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 27 | It is important not to take a dogmatic stance with regard to the categorisation of terms as always concentrating on the nature of the breach . |
| 28 | It is important not to overuse the checkstays because excessive use can close the leech of the main , slowing the boat . |
| 29 | It is especially important not to reduce the carbohydrate content of the diet . |
| 30 | It is important not to regard the development of social policy in Britain as simply involving two dramatic jumps forward in the periods 1906–11 and 1944–9 . |