Example sentences of "important than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water quality is more important than water chemistry . |
| 2 | Language development is more important than vocabulary building and offering dauntingly-high standards of written and spoken language . |
| 3 | It is evident from this quotation that the grammarians were mainly motivated not by considerations of linguistic naturalness or logic ( for example , the clash of singular and plural implicit in the use of they ; and as Bodine points out , why in any case is number concord more important than gender concord ? ) but quite explicitly by sexism . |
| 4 | The technical literature suggests that structural factors may have been more important than price factors in explaining the persistent deficit . |
| 5 | The personal , physical or expert power of leaders is therefore more important than position power alone . |
| 6 | In understanding isolated sentences ( for example , the ones above , presented in a psycholinguistic experiment ) role mapping is more important than name mapping . |
| 7 | In particular , the New York Times/CBS poll of Oct. 22 found that 79 per cent believed foreign policy less important than home issues , that only 37 per cent approved Bush 's handling of the economy , and that 56 per cent believed that the recession was getting worse . |
| 8 | He was genuinely concerned for the children and considered their happiness and development as responsible citizens to be more important than exam results . |
| 9 | Whether one considers lawyers and doctors as more important than farm labourers and refuse collectors is simply a matter of opinion . |
| 10 | People for whom career goals are less important than comfort goals ( lower achievers in an organizational sense ) are more likely to watch others play sport ; their first sexual experiences occur younger and more frequently thereafter . |
| 11 | Climate change is already more important than acid rain , genetic engineering a more topical issue than saving whales . |
| 12 | We believe the most likely explanation is that , over 2 years , physiological age is much more important than calendar age . |
| 13 | We failed to realise that product life was more important than machinery life . |
| 14 | It could be argued that the weights reflect the decision-makers ' theory of investment desirability , but what theory could rate NPV 333 per cent more important than process yield and ten times as important as basic R&D ? |
| 15 | In other words , human need is more important than Sabbath law . |