Example sentences of "how important " in BNC.

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1 He knows how important to the power of his writings had been his fight with the Jews and the outrageous candour of his sexual descriptions , and in the recent writings this knowledge is conveyed by the proximity of an imagined truce to an imagined impotence .
2 If you came from Mexico , he said , you would give up this shallow cynicism and understand just how important it is to keep the bookshops open , to keep the galleries open , even to keep the opera houses open .
3 They did not seem to realise how important they were ; not self-important , but important to the incantation , the altar , the ritual .
4 How important is that to the balance of trade ? ’
5 A comparison of such different ballets as Enigma Variations , Fancy Free and The Rake 's Progress emphasises how important it is for young choreographers to remember that ballet is an art of the general as well as of the particular .
6 Graham Sutherland , opposite a whole page of contacts , enthuses in a 1946 letter : ‘ Your photographs are wonderfully good ; easily the best we have ever had taken , and I can see how important was the time and care which you took over the composition and lighting and the idea …
7 ‘ On the question of regality , it 's very much a characteristic , her feeling how important she is .
8 ‘ The figures are a movable feast , but they show how important it is for anonymised prevalence testing to get under way so we can get a true picture of infection in the population . ’
9 You will understand how important it is that he does , ’ The message was that if there was no agreement at Chicago , Congress might not be in a mood to furnish further British Lend-Lease requirements .
10 This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’
11 Another mentor Laing remembers with affection was George Miller , who was the sales manager at the London factory , who taught him how important it was to have ‘ a main thrust ’ in a business .
12 Knowing ( from expensive experience elsewhere ! ) how important it is to keep the fabric in good order , I propose to get this attended to as soon as possible .
13 Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together .
14 It 's an economic argument but it 's also about image — and we all know how important that has become in stereotyping countries .
15 Mac users will know how important it is to drag icons to the correct position .
16 In 1943 the well-known painter , Hans Hofmann , asked the young Pollock how important nature was for his art .
17 Such figures underline how important it is not to forget the North-South divide amid the dust thrown up by the Eastern Europe upheaval .
18 Figures from the Treasury and the International Stock Exchange also show just how important large issues have been share ownership .
19 Mrs Sally Oppenheim-Barnes , Chair of the National Consumer Council We also hope to discover how important gravity is to mushrooms .
20 How important to it had Angela Morgan been ?
21 During my visits to Cuba I have seen how important for the country 's economy and how well managed the bagasse-based paper industry is .
22 Have you ever considered how important the hallway of your home is ?
23 How important were the depressed economic conditions and unemployment in accounting for the slow down in population growth ?
24 And , in focussing upon the events of the inter-war years , precisely how important was unemployment in shaping the political changes which occurred ?
25 One might well ask how important the element of criminal damage is to the rationale of the aggravated offence .
26 Once again you can appreciate how important it is to have a mixed and varied diet .
27 We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph .
28 ‘ Yes , I know we are primarily a mental hospital , but you must understand how important it is .
29 And how important has the Church been in promoting Paisley 's politics ?
30 The Führer has also spoken himself about how important Stalingrad is , and now he has gone and lost it .
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