Example sentences of "a [adv] [adv] important [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In many respects , therefore , it would appear that the family is a much less important institution in modern society than it was in the past . |
| 2 | In contrast lung cancer is a much less important cause of death for older women . |
| 3 | By comparison , advertising plays a much less important role in industrial markets , where even the first stage is dominated by personal selling . |
| 4 | Germany , of course , is different because it has a federal system , so that the central administration is important in policy-making terms and policy is tending to go more and more towards the centre , but the administration of the different states , federal states , what they call the Länder , has a very important executive role , and the central government has a much less important role in actually carrying out policy . |
| 5 | The human figure always played a much more important part in the work of Picasso than in that of Braque , and Picasso looked with particular interest at Cézanne 's figure work . |
| 6 | Titmuss felt that changes in patterns of pregnancy and childbirth had been a much more important factor in explaining changes in women 's position in society than the acquisition of legal rights . |
| 7 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer 's Budget speech ( confusingly titled , since it is primarily concerned with the raising of revenue ) has become a much more important occasion in recent years . |
| 8 | A much more important influence on the project was the Kent Community Care Scheme ( whose full-scale findings have subsequently been published in Challis and Davies , 1986 , and Davies and Challis , l986 ) . |
| 9 | It is now clear that the presence of the wall causes the fluid viscosity to enter in a much more important way into the dynamics of turbulent motion than it does for free flows . |
| 10 | They will also raise a much more important issue with him . |
| 11 | But there was a much more important shift of power away from the examining boards ( and thus away from the universities ) in the creation of the central Secondary Examinations Council . |
| 12 | A much more important demonstration of this lower status , however , is the rents and services paid by dependent settlements to the caput . |
| 13 | I sounds as if your grandmother was a much more important figure in your life than perhaps anyone realised , and you needed to grieve for her . |
| 14 | In Iceland , however , where limpets are scarce or absent , dog-whelks are a much more important source of food to the oystercatcher ( references in Cramp et al. , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Women had a much more important role in life … |
| 16 | Therefore the little Ramsey , when he arrived at Repton in 1918 , met a headmaster destined to play a far more important part in his life than is the fate of most headmasters . |
| 17 | The New Deal in fact established a far more important role for the Federal Government in a whole range of areas previously considered to be outside its scope . |
| 18 | A few miles from Gunby is a quite unassumingly important site to be found where the marshlands give way to the slightly hilly area in the shadow of the wolds . |
| 19 | A potentially more important source of external control by the judiciary lies in the ability of the courts to exclude evidence obtained by sharp police practice . |
| 20 | They represent a potentially very important method of providing good rented or cheap owner-occupier housing in rural areas since they are an established medium for obtaining finance and for managing schemes . |
| 21 | As a result there were more males than females , unlike Europe where milk was a relatively more important reason for keeping cattle . |
| 22 | Accordingly it became a relatively more important cause of death than scarlet fever , which declined fast from the 1860s ( the two diseases have some symptoms in common and were not separated in death certification until 1858 ) . |
| 23 | And finally , Tuesday night — probably to you , what , a Londoner and playing down in Torquay , the game against Swindon , never taken so much significance , but a very very important game for Oxford United and their followers . |