Example sentences of "important [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The issue of waiver is particularly important where a buyer rejects the goods for a wrong reason .
2 This is particularly important where the sample is expensive and only very small amounts are available .
3 It is understood that SFA regards an agreement as in writing for this purpose even if its terms are set out in a terms of business letter accepted merely by conduct ( which is especially important where the intermediary is not a private customer ) .
4 This is particularly important where the syndication partner or partners are to be offered a position on the board .
5 It is , however , much more important where the health authority is the main purchaser of community services — for example , in services for mental health , particularly in those for people with long term and severe mental illness and complex needs .
6 Technological influences may be important where the plant or machinery is old , or where new technology is unsuccessful .
7 As the views of parents as consumers become increasingly important so the need for sensitivity towards their views becomes sharper .
8 Unfortunately , it proved to be too taxing and Peter persuaded her to give up , telling her , ‘ You 're far more important than a degree . ’
9 Mention this to most clergymen and they will rightly say that spiritual development is far more important than a degree .
10 Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery .
11 Planning is more important than a plan
12 In this , nothing is more important than a core of energetic teachers with an interest and commitment to such related trends as those of RBL , study skills , information handling and integrated thematic approaches .
13 Thus it could be argued that a doctor is functionally more important than a nurse since his or her position carries with it many of the skills necessary to perform a nurse 's role but not vice versa .
14 And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year .
15 Surely , she reasoned , the future of a child was more important than a promise to a man who was now dead ?
16 Coming from a country where the use of the appropriate word is more important than a gesture in daily life , both choreographers have resolved that words must be replaced by gestures within the choreographic design .
17 I 'm sure that there are hundreds of dealers getting ready to write me letters at this point to tell me that a satisfied customer is more important than a sale .
18 It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) .
19 If you use your card as a way to spread payments , of course , low annual percentage rate ( APR ) is more important than a fee .
20 So what we must consider is that whether a team performance is more important than an individual 's performance do n't forget that it is easy ( relatively ) to mark him out of a game compared to marking 11 men out off game .
21 So a budgeting shortfall today was regarded as more important than an energy shortfall tomorrow .
22 He contrasted this approach with the methods of the best Russian and German directors , who almost certainly would have made a film in which the characters were less important than the system they would be condemning .
23 The question of who can sue is less important than the question of who will sue .
24 The individual group was seen as more important than the umbrella organisation .
25 Maybe the listening had always been more important than the absolution .
26 The high incidence of vessels compared with dishes may , as Evison suggests ( ibid. ) , imply that they arrived as containers of oil or wine ; the crude workmanship of some examples may emphasise that the contents were more important than the packaging , even though they may have been viewed as valuable objects in some secondary function .
27 Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract .
28 But in a pragmatist society he would have to predict whether the judges would be likely to consider his case as one in which the virtues of predictability were less important than the substance of the law , and whether , if they thought substance more important , they would think a decision for him better or worse for the community .
29 For Geoffroy , the superficial adaptations were less significant than the underlying unity of structure — the laws governing the modification of form were more important than the function that the resulting structures would serve in allowing the animals to live within their environment .
30 In this area , the message is more important than the medium of communication .
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