Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to be important " in BNC.

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1 For such a configuration the parameter is large , and therefore general relativistic effects are expected to be important .
2 Agreement with the objectives will help to ensure that they are seen to be important and that activity will be directed towards their achievement .
3 One of the strengths of this approach is that it becomes much more immediately apparent why certain issues are felt to be important .
4 The evidence presented is consistent with a standard single equation approach to asset demands as the level and growth of wealth together with expected relative returns are shown to be important determinants of the level of investment .
5 Psychological theories of semantics have been shown to be important , since the human information processing system is the best example of a language processing system , and that such theories attempt to produce cognitive models that should be computationally implementable .
6 While community services may provide a richer material environment and wider opportunities for constructive activity than institutions , the patterns of staff behaviour which have been shown to be important in enabling active participation by people with severe or profound learning disabilities can be overlooked or ignored in the pursuit of ‘ homeliness ’ .
7 This domain has previously been shown to be important for transcriptional activation ( 44 , 45 ) .
8 The POU domain has also been shown to be important for protein-protein interactions ( 55 ) .
9 TWO COMPLETELY new organisms have been discovered that are thought to be important contributors to the ever-increasing problem of sexually-transmitted disease — in particular so-called ‘ non-specific genital infections ’ .
10 Therefore , they are thought to be important regulators of brain development ( reviewed in [ 12 ] ) .
11 Host factors are thought to be important in determining the severity of the response to this parasite .
12 Hummingbirds and hawkmoths are largely associated with trees producing flowers near the forest floor , where noctuid moths are found to be important pollinators in the smaller species of Meliaceae and butterflies in such families as Rubiaceae .
13 This covers all types of mental handicap , including mild cases where social and environmental factors are known to be important but the exact nature of the problem is less well known .
14 Psychological stressors are known to be important contributory factors in relation to accidents .
15 The olfactory channel is used and has been found to be important in making judgements about a person being ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ !
16 As lack of discipline at home had been found to be important to later sociopathy , she recommended improved discipline at school for such at-risk youngsters : a more vigorous role in preventing truancy , supervision for completion of assignments , controlled use of leisure time and so on .
17 MULTISTRANDED DNA structures based upon guanine association have been proposed to be important in the structure of chromosome telomeres and in immunoglobulin class switching .
18 The boy shrugged , raising his brows with a mild affectation of surprise that it could be thought to be important ; but the stillness of his face and the steadiness of his eyes on Hotspur went some way towards betraying him .
19 Attitudes can then be shown to be important in the learning of a language , whether signed or spoken .
20 Well he knows that his views may not necessarily be the majority and count in the end , but at least they 're being taken into account and being considered to be important .
21 Although corporacy and good relations were thought to be important , both sides acknowledged that conflicts of interest were bound to happen which had to be worked through by negotiation and bargaining .
22 Former headmen were known to be important organizers of the illicit trade in stolen cattle .
23 Firstly , positive school experiences were found to be important .
24 they should include the key elements that are perceived to be important in achieving the identified and attainable level of ‘ best ’ performance .
25 Such disclosure is considered to be important in achieving the financial reporting characteristics of understandability and comparability .
26 We must also ensure that teaching is seen to be important , and a simple way to start is to insist that all doctors must document their experience when applying for jobs and that all appointments committees should ask about it .
27 Where it is felt to be important , information on number can therefore be encoded lexically .
28 The doctrine , which may be concerned with national liberation , the emancipation of a class , the emancipation of women or some other general aim which is felt to be important by large numbers of people , has also to include or be founded upon a social theory which can elucidate the principal issues , clarify the objectives and ways of attaining them , and outline alternative forms of society .
29 The loss of the conserved Arg525 in patient A could prevent substrate recognition because this residue is thought to be important in the substrate-specific domain .
30 Maternal responsiveness is thought to be important in cognitive development and for secure mother-infant attachment : thus infants of mothers with chronic schizophrenia are at risk of disrupted bonding and its sequelae of impaired social behaviour and problem solving .
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