Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [adv] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest and most significant effect of the glitch is seen to be the persistent change in slowdown rate , amounting to 0.04% . |
| 2 | The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic . |
| 3 | The worst and most significant job loss , in the overall period 1981 to 1987 , was met in Cleveland ( 32.9 per cent ; see Chapter 10 ) , and this area demonstrates one of the severest proportionate ‘ differential shifts ’ among those mapped at Figure 5.4B , along with Greater London and Merseyside . |
| 4 | The exhibition , curated by Joan Solomon and Sue Isherwood , highlights the first and most significant relationship in most women 's lives ( until 22 Mar ) . |
| 5 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 6 | Without doubt the rarest and most significant item offered yesterday was the ‘ Ashburton Cabinet ’ , an ormolu-mounted ivory-inlaid kingwood and parquetry bureau-cabinet by the Piedmontese sculptor and cabinet-maker Pietro Piffetti of around 1770 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 19 , June 1992 , p.18 ) . |