Example sentences of "have be a [adv] significant [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been occasional sorties by the BNP in local by-elections , but none has been a particularly significant performance . |
| 2 | The growth of the library supplier has been a highly significant development of the past 20 years . |
| 3 | But he added : ‘ However , there has been a heavy price to pay and the continual publicity has been particularly hard on my wife Pam , whose fierce and unswerving support has been a very significant factor in the outcome . |
| 4 | ‘ This could well turn out to have been a very significant moment in the history of England ’ , wrote Tom McGrath in Peace News . |
| 5 | Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers . |