Example sentences of "important [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whichever strategy is adopted there are going to be problems and it is important to be tuned into them when trying to interpret research in psychobiology . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cecil and Michael are a good point at which to resume a discussion of the new cruelty ( if only because there 's nothing chic or otherwise important to be said about either ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | It 's so important to be seen at these things and — I know it sounds very philistine — to show people that you have money . |
| 10 | He believes it important to be seen to be a good community person and to put back in some of what we take out . |
| 11 | He does convince us that the questions are sufficiently important to be asked . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is important to be reminded , moreover , that although Darlington Hall was to witness many more events of equal gravity over the fifteen or so years that followed , that conference of March 1923 was the first of them ; one was , one supposes , relatively inexperienced , and inclined to leave little to chance . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The economic significance of slavery , both for the North American colonies and for European capitalism , is too important to be overlooked . |
| 16 | Too important to be interrupted . |
| 17 | Intergraph felt it was important to be associated with one of the ‘ major players ’ , not a company that was likely to disappear overnight . |
| 18 | This paper was thought sufficiently perceptive and important to be reprinted in England in 1876 , in France in 1877 , and in the USA in 1895 . |
| 19 | It would be wrong to conclude from this debate that science is too important to be left to politicians . |
| 20 | Far too important to be left to the position dictated by historical accident or cultural prejudice . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | War was too important to be left to those who , by tradition , had been charged with supervising it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The implementation or administrative process is far too important to be left to its own devices . |