1.   Although essential to children, the tissue seems less important to healthy adults.

2.   At the last Olympics, sports seemed to be less important than the blatant commercialism of the merchandise suppliers.

3.   Before that, however, consideration is given to other, relatively less important, programmes.

4.   But other varieties of negotiation are no less important.

5.   Even less important than long-distance roads were air routes.

6.   For Ure, however, special expertise is less important than the essentials of contact and clout.

7.   Good natural daylight and attractive views are less important but should certainly be taken into consideration.

8.   I have no doubt excluded towering figures who ought to have been included, and included some less important.

9.   If men closed further, accuracy became less important, and powerful grenades became extremely effective.