important clue

collocation in English

meaningsofimportantandclue

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important
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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clue
noun[C]
uk
/kluː/us
/kluː/
a sign or some information that helps you to find the answer to a problem, question, ...
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(Definition ofimportantandcluefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimportant clue

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One cannot look into the minds of a nameless crowd decades on: but there is animportantclue.
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Yet the very nature of the innovation and diffusion process we are describing as fundamental to modern economic development does suggest animportantclue.
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This fact may be animportantclueto the gifts.
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Evidence that the patient experiences recurrent bouts of pneumonia is animportantclueto aspiration that may be silent, as a result of dysphagia.
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There are two striking facts about this passage which explain why it ought to be regarded as animportantcluefor our purposes.
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The unity of biochemistry is indeed animportantclueto our evolutionary history.
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Theimportantclueto the diagnosis of common or solitary trunk is seen in the three-vessel view, in which only two vessels are identified.
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More importantly, we can examine how business-cycle features are different in both regimes, which may provide animportantcluein determining which regime was in place historically.
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None the less, animportantclueis provided by the comparison of the articles with the parish constitutions stipulated by episcopal authority when licensing select vestries.
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Secondly, treatment inflicted on an asylum seeker in the past would obviously be animportantclueto what might happen to them in the future.
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Finding out where people have worked provides animportantclueto the cause of problems, and we are certainly prepared to think about that.
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It is also likely to reduce the period of detention in those quite common cases where fingerprints are animportantclueto the identity of the offender.
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It might afford animportantclue.
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Anotherimportantclueis the manufacturers label found on the vintage film projectors kept in the projection room.
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Animportantcluefor this is that in 1638/39 the town council could buy a new organ for 240 imperial talers.
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Animportantclueis the failure of hereditary angioedema to respond to antihistamines or steroids, a characteristic that distinguishes it from allergic reactions.
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The scalar nature of the effect is animportantcluewhen considering higher dimensions.
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Police finally break the case after receiving animportantclue.
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Government policy provides animportantclueas to one reason for the relative newness of the national car parc.
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Also, an ashtray full of half-smoked cigarettes is animportantclue.
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