Example sentences of "much [adv] important [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
| 2 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , for the average European manager comfort , structure and relationships goals are much less important than recognition , power and autonomy . |
| 4 | In many ways , external control is much less important than ‘ internal ’ or ‘ self-imposed ’ control . |
| 5 | Other factors can cause lung cancer but they are much less important than smoking . |
| 6 | These scholars , with their narrow reliance on sometimes incomplete statistics and a hypothetical input for ‘ social saving ’ , argue that the railways were much less important than is usually assumed , because if they had not existed , something else would have emerged to take their place . |
| 7 | Although much less important than consumption in aggregate demand , investment has , through the multiplier , a significant effect on National Income , and is the most volatile element in aggregate demand . |
| 8 | On the battlefield armament was still much less important than discipline and fighting spirit . |
| 9 | Most people think if it , if it 's , if it 's real at all it 's er it 's much less important than weight . |
| 10 | In 1939 nearly everyone had a direct or indirect memory of mass warfare and mindless patriotism was much less important than a conscious commitment to the idea that aggressive fascism could not be stopped by any method short of war . |
| 11 | Submarine fans are much less important as potential reservoirs in the Z2 Carbonate than the platform or mud wedge carbonates , because they are only rarely developed . |
| 12 | The significance of the objections we have just noted is much more important than might at first appear . |
| 13 | Much more important than this was Tolkien 's vast imaginative life , one day to make him famous as author of The Lord of the Rings , but at this date completely hidden from all but his family and close friends . |
| 14 | Surely the corollary of his great ‘ mythopoeia ’ discussion with Dyson and Tolkien was that the story of Christ was much more important than any doctrine which a fallible or fallen human mind could extract from it ? |
| 15 | This did not necessarily mean that the churches opposed alleviation of pain , but it did mean that the ministrations of the pastor were much more important than those of the physician , and those of the latter should not be permitted to interfere with the spiritual task of the former . |
| 16 | ‘ This is much more important than any wedding photograph of mine could ever be , ’ Catherine assured him . |
| 17 | As in the case of genes , fecundity is much more important than longevity of particular copies . |
| 18 | It was much more important than his car . |
| 19 | It is very much more important than most people realize . |
| 20 | I mean hearing from God is much more important than scotsport , is n't it ? |
| 21 | A willingness to learn and perseverance are much more important than candles on a birthday cake . |
| 22 | Gozzard wanted to deal with headhunters who were businessmen and businesswomen in their own right , and this was much more important than even the most sophisticated data banks . |
| 23 | They became , like United , relatively much more important than in 1947 . |
| 24 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 25 | Much more important than the Duchy was the royal household , whose financial institutions , the Chamber and the Wardrobe , not only consumed a large part of the Crown 's income but also assisted , from time to time , in national government . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's much more important than it used to be , ’ concedes Martin Hawtree , Secretary of the British Association of Golf Course Architects ( BAGCA ) . |
| 27 | Asking questions is much more important than answering them . |
| 28 | But time-wise the gap between them may well be much more important than the time-span within them . |
| 29 | I think that absolute figures are much more important than percentages . |
| 30 | These results suggest that underlying health is much more important than age in determining prognosis after hospital care with community-acquired pneumonia . |