Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] important " in BNC.
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| 1 | However that may be , we suggest that it is more important to have committed members than representative ones , and in this regard our evaluation of the Coordinating Team is very positive . |
| 2 | Some suggest that it is more important to be able to bring political pressure to bear , so that the elected representatives of whatever sex will pass legislation of benefit to women . |
| 3 | Tom adds that it is very important for young horses to have their teeth checked before they are bitted and broken ; racehorses usually have their first session at two years-old . |
| 4 | They should also know that it is very important that there must be established in the child 's mind at a very early age a dawning awareness of the fact that for all his life he will be required to submit to control from some source or other . |
| 5 | It was stressed that it was vitally important for those going to work in other countries to have training in the cross- cultural dimension . |
| 6 | He thinks that it is more important to convince doctors that ‘ teaching ’ is a broad term and covers much of what they do every day and to ensure that they receive adequate training and support to carry it out well . |
| 7 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation . |
| 8 | SeaWatch director Sven Hansen says that recent international agreements to reduce pollution mean that it is particularly important to set up a system capable of ensuring standards are being met . |
| 9 | Responding to our piece on Power Now , the Santa Cruz , California company 's Pentium initiative ( CI No 2,129 ) , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc says that it is less important to re-compile the operating system than the applications software , which tends to be more numerically intensive . |
| 10 | Responding to our piece on Power Now , its Pentium initiative , in last week 's issue , The Santa Cruz Operation says that it is less important to re-compile the operating system than the applications software , which tends to be more numerically intensive . |
| 11 | It is difficult to persuade people who are eagerly straining to learn to speechread that it is also important to learn how to stop . |
| 12 | I do feel that it is extremely important to think first what your nearest and dearest would really like before you begin to knit . |
| 13 | It was important that this strategy did not succeed and it was also important that the tactics of intimidation seen in 1979 did not win through in 1982 . |
| 14 | Risks to health and the environment can be minimised and it is also important to produce the energy cleanly . |
| 15 | People naturally want to retire and it is therefore important to offer opportunities for fulfilment in leisure , education and voluntary activities and to recognise the valuable role played by older people within the family . |
| 16 | In addition , experience has shown that it is equally important to make a provisional assessment of factors such as development and staffing costs , and the technical feasibility of pursuing any proposed computer initiatives . |
| 17 | During the drying process particle aggregation may occur and it is most important that sieve residues should be checked , using a hand lens where necessary , to detect the presence of aggregates which form clusters considerably larger than the original single component grains . |
| 18 | ‘ Everyone likes to win but it is more important to produce first-team players . |
| 19 | I wonder how important it is for those players because the the competition over here has its detractors , what about over there , I ca n't imagine the Italians being that bothered about doing well in this competition , certainly the gates over there do n't suggest that it 's that important ? |
| 20 | Mendès-France thereby demonstrated that it was more important to him to keep the French army free from supranational controls than it was to prevent German rearmament . |
| 21 | Said Mr Robinson : ‘ Several views were aired and it is now important that we all try to push in the same direction to the benefit of the club . ’ |
| 22 | Finally , I believe that it is less important for feminists to establish a particular set of nonsexist conventions as ‘ standard ’ than to make people aware of the non-neutrality of language . |
| 23 | Er we feel that it 's very important that we do have an additional ten so that er what before next day to Royston and initially on a temporary basis erm for at er er Watford so we address the problems in those areas . |
| 24 | I feel that it is very important that everybody playing tennis has good technique . |
| 25 | And one of the features of the current policy is that affordable supply is partly a matter to be negotiated and it 's very important that it 's negotiated out of the general er supply made by private sector builders . |
| 26 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 27 | Just because the regional dimension has not received the attention afforded to monetary union , that does not mean that it is less important to our future economic well-being . |
| 28 | Erm , it 's certainly true that we reduced the total size of a particular team or unit dealing with international affairs , but only on the grounds that we actually felt that it was very important that all the teams should be working on international and European dimensions of their work , rather than seeing it as compartmentalised in one area . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont said on June 23 that G-7 ministers had concluded that it was more important for the Soviet Union to initiate a programme of domestic economic reform than to be the recipient of massive financial aid . |
| 30 | It also means that it is extremely important to get the matching stage right because no amount of back-seat driving will persuade new parents to change their basic way of running their family . |