Example sentences of "important as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as important as establishing what to include is deciding what to exclude , and it is here that the purists may find cause to tar and feather us . |
| 2 | And about something as important as so much land and money he would speak with correctitude . |
| 3 | Site is as important as soil , for plants that prefer full sun , shade or shelter may not thrive if planted in the wrong place , and are then more likely to succumb . |
| 4 | In years to come the commercialisation of BR via sectorisation could well be seen by historians as important as grouping and nationalisation . |
| 5 | The means are becoming as important as the ends . |
| 6 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 7 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 8 | Art is at least as important as Politics , whether in Peace or war , and it is Pound 's intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others beside Peter Robinson . |
| 9 | He also stressed that the personal satisfaction in working for a small firm was as important as the financial contribution the sector made to the economy . |
| 10 | Or perhaps the Government may decide that the provision of cheap houses to its young supporters in the South-east is not as important as holding the thin green line , while cultivating the older guard . |
| 11 | People are as important as buttercups . |
| 12 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 13 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 14 | The mosquitoes and the noise of the guns were not as important as they seemed several days ago . |
| 15 | It seemed , in the wake of rival expulsions of alleged spies from London and Moscow , that Anglo-Russian relations were not as buoyant or as important as the British Prime Minister had claimed . |
| 16 | Remembrance is thus able to move further into our lives than visits to memorials , was graves or churches — important as these are as symbols and as a focus of personal and public remembrance . |
| 17 | ‘ Have you not read that restraint of profits is just as important as wage restraint ? |
| 18 | ‘ St. Magnus Martyr was not as important as Stonehenge , but still it was not insignificant . ’ |
| 19 | Important as this is , it tends to ignore other histories . |
| 20 | In defining an ideology , the claims which seek to legitimate political and social authority are surely as important as the notion of authority itself . |
| 21 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 22 | Still , the continuities were as important as the changes . |
| 23 | Almost 60 Tories have signed two early day motions calling for quality to be as important as money in franchise allocation . |
| 24 | ‘ When you enter this kind of environment , after-sales service and training are just as important as the product itself , ’ says Gian Carlo Bisone , head of Compaq 's European marketing . |
| 25 | Tenure is now only important as between a lessor for a term of years and his lessee . |
| 26 | For B&O , form has long been as important as function , allowing it to avoid the open-sandwich school of Danish design . |
| 27 | When he was a young fighter , a doctor had to chase him around a desk to give him a shot , and chaotic mobility to him is at least as important as breathing . |
| 28 | I am addressing an all-party committee , ’ Mark replied , feeling rather important as he uttered the words . |
| 29 | All Dot had to do was smile pleasantly and stand a little behind because , as Gloria pointed out , Princess Margaret was n't nearly as important as Princess Elizabeth and would never become a queen . |
| 30 | ‘ People ’ skills are , therefore , as important as dog skills . |