While the result was exciting, researchers said its true importance lay in the way it was reached.

In the answer to that lay the importance of all that had happened here.

Its strategical importance lay in the position at the approach to the Rhine from southeast.

Their importance lay not in numbers but the important weaving skills that they introduced.

The importance of agriculture however laid in the provinces exports.

But his true importance lay in that terrible, devious brain.

The importance of the names lay in the names themselves, not the truth beneath them.

Goldoni's importance lay in providing good examples rather than precepts.

The importance of citizenship lay in the individual 'giving' to his city, rather than taking from it.

His chief importance lay in his influence as a teacher.