Example sentences of "too important to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no doubt that her children were too important to be brought up by anyone else and , as others went on to become household names , she became a full-time mother , writing occasional children 's books as well as a storybook-guide to the handling of epilepsy based on experiences with her own son . |
| 2 | These are fragile empathies , too important to be either romanticized or ignored . |
| 3 | It would be wrong to conclude from this debate that science is too important to be left to politicians . |
| 4 | There would be dangers in making the enjoyment of the entitlements of citizenship conditional on the performance of the legal or moral duties of citizenship , especially the ‘ voluntary obligations ’ of service to the community , since these entitlements are , it is suggested , too important to be ‘ bought ’ by community service and forfeit for lack of the required track record of active citizenship ; also , it would be unduly intrusive to place these burdens on citizens who should be entitled to a private life , and many of whom — women with young children or dependent relatives to care for , for example — do not have the time or resources to do service to the wider community . |
| 5 | Far too important to be left to the position dictated by historical accident or cultural prejudice . |
| 6 | The grosser absurdities of the consultative document have disappeared , and it is now apparent that the cross-curricular elements ( those aspects of learning that will not slot into the conventional ‘ subject ’ boxes yet are still too important to be left to chance ) are going ( somehow ) to be retained . |
| 7 | If politicians came to the conclusion that education was too important to be left to the educators , bear in mind the massive input of public resources , education 's failure to demonstrate significant improvement of standards , poor marketing , uncertain professional leadership and the fact that every year youngsters leave school ignorant of much they might reasonably be expected to know and lacking skills that could have been acquired in 11 years of schooling . |
| 8 | It 's just that I think sex is too important to be casual about . |
| 9 | Reservations continued to be expressed about the power of teacher unions in the Council and there were those who felt that ‘ the curriculum was too important to be left to teachers ’ . |
| 10 | He also asked the Bosnian Serbs to attend a special pan-Serb parliamentary session in Belgrade saying that the Vance-Owen plan was too important to be left to the Bosnian Serbs alone . |
| 11 | In most liberal democracies complex new policy arenas have been judged far too important to be left in the hands of conventional judges and lawyers . |
| 12 | And the new Sussex Toy and Model Museum is a star attraction for people who consider toys and models far too important to be left only to children . |
| 13 | While deregulation refers to the breaking down of barriers that inhibit competition , impede efficiency , and restrict consumer choice , governments nonetheless acknowledge that some policy goals are too important to be left to heavily market orientated deregulatory processes . |
| 14 | War was too important to be left to those who , by tradition , had been charged with supervising it . |
| 15 | The economic significance of slavery , both for the North American colonies and for European capitalism , is too important to be overlooked . |
| 16 | So , because of the silver mines which it controlled , Thasos was — considerations of league discipline apart — too important to be allowed to slip the leash ( 465 ) . |
| 17 | Although there is a temptation to save scarce money by cutting down on insurance , the Church 's human and material resources are too important to be exposed to needless risk or loss . |
| 18 | Education performs political , social , as well as economic functions and it is thus too important to be made the slave to the needs of the economy even though it has no option but to be its servant . |
| 19 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 20 | The implementation or administrative process is far too important to be left to its own devices . |
| 21 | The ones which could not be changed , or were too important to be missed , she shared out with the others and put a schedule on their desks . |
| 22 | But the matter is too important to be left to the Private Member 's Bill procedure . ’ |
| 23 | The issues are complex , varied , resistant to easy resolution and , of course , immensely important : far too important to be encapsulated in a simple dichotomy between quantitative versus qualitative research . |
| 24 | These efforts by foreign offices to influence opinion in part reflected an increasing feeling among sections of the public , visible well before 1914 , that diplomacy was now too important to be left to diplomats . |
| 25 | Too important to be interrupted . |
| 26 | For some though the future is too important to be left to the front runners in the election race : |
| 27 | Projects are too important to be left to the juniors , says NEIL FITZGERALD |
| 28 | Sentencing is too important to be left in the hands of one person without recourse to a higher authority . |
| 29 | The society president , Brian Adair , and his colleagues argue that legal aid is too important to be the target of such economising . |
| 30 | In yesterday 's decision , the appeal judges said that the case was too important to be heard anywhere but in the country 's supreme court . |