Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the report , " the earlier expectations of a recovery in world economic activity , and consequently for the LDCs ' , have since been transformed into forecasts of further and significant decline " . |
| 2 | If this is a primitive point of reference for social criticism , it nonetheless equipped Leapor to make a brave and significant statement on rural life . |
| 3 | Normally only appropriate where significant reliance has had to be placed on management who are not the sole owners of the business . |
| 4 | Its trading account is substantially in credit and it has no overdue or significant trading debts . |
| 5 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 6 | He defined trade secrets ( at p425 a-j ) as : ( a ) information used in the trade or business ; ( b ) of which the owner limits the dissemination or at least does not encourage or permit widespread publication ; ( c ) and which if disclosed to a competitor would be liable to cause real or significant harm to the owner of the secret . |
| 7 | But the most significant point to make is that to attempt to force the fabliaux to fit some standard rhetorical classification is not just ( perhaps ) irrelevant , but , more seriously , distracting in respect of the frequently clever and significant exploitation of language in these texts . |
| 8 | If this passage does have central and significant relevance to contemporary working relationships , we must begin by clarifying in what ways the issues touched upon by Paul 's words address themselves to current situations and concerns . |
| 9 | It will be much richer , of course , since Tony Benn has played a more central and significant role in the national politics of his day . |
| 10 | The sex of the character is usually the most prominent and significant variable in characterization . |
| 11 | We are talking about a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland , which has taken the Tories from the high point of being the majority party in Scotland in the mid-1950s to the point today when they are on the edge of extinction as a serious and significant force in Scotland . |
| 12 | The NRA has also published The quality of rivers , canals and estuaries in England and Wales : a report of the 1990 survey , which confirms that there has been a ‘ real and significant deterioration ’ in the quality of some rivers since 1985 . |
| 13 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has confirmed that there has been a " real and significant deterioration " in the quality of some waterways in England and Wales between 1985 and 1990 [ see also ED 52 ] . |
| 14 | There is a consistent and significant rise in the LTB 4 from 0.21 ( median , range 0.20 to 0.64 ) before radiotherapy to 1.14 ( 0.20 to 4.0 ) after radiotherapy ( median rise 0.89 ng.ml - 1 , p=0.012 ) . |
| 15 | If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ? |
| 16 | Improving the efficiency of domestic appliances , like fridges , would be an easy but significant start . ’ |
| 17 | If the US team were hoping to hear that martial law may soon be lifted , they may have been forestalled by a tiny but significant demonstration on the streets of Beijing . |
| 18 | Although this programme can not do more than offer an introduction to the mastery of the skills needed by instructors , it is nevertheless of considerable importance in that it is a measured and significant attempt to provide the sort of training upon which the success of YOP and , even more important its successor , the Youth Training Scheme , will depend . |
| 19 | Although it would be wrong to see the injustices suffered by a Viscountess as equivalent to those of the poor , Irwin 's willingness to examine questions of gender and class together make ‘ An Epistle to Mr. Pope ’ a striking and significant composition . |
| 20 | " Unless we take very prompt and significant action to reduce greenhouse emissions we 're very likely to experience severe impacts " , said Peter Gleick , a co-chairman of a working group contributing to the Stockholm Institute report . |
| 21 | Studies by Atkinson and Kincaid in Britain , Harrington in the USA , and official government studies in both countries , reveal a persistent and significant section of the population living in poverty-stricken circumstances at any one time , to say nothing of the many others , who , at certain crucial periods of their life ( e.g. the old , families with young children ) , may temporarily lapse into poverty . |
| 22 | Internal audit is a large and significant part of the financial control of many organizations . |
| 23 | The authoritative review of the theoretical and empirical literature from a number of countries conducted by Godfrey for the OECD concluded that all the various methods used to measure the incentive/disincentive effects ‘ indicate that taxation does not have a large and significant effect in the total supply of work effort and that , in particular , the net effect on the labour supply of male family heads is likely to be very small ’ . |
| 24 | Vocational training has a large and significant effect on offer arrival rates , ceteris paribus , but other educational qualifications or a completed apprenticeship matter only insignificantly . |
| 25 | Total losses on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ — which is the largest insurance loss ever recorded — are now estimated at $65m and but for this factor we would have reported a welcome and significant return to profitability in 1992 . |
| 26 | The brief but significant poster campaign at Beida in early April took place against the background of one of the most open National People 's Congresses ( NPC ) ever held . |
| 27 | Yes I think that would apply where there was a a major or significant loss of employment land . |
| 28 | In every way , then , the party organization emerged from the war years in reasonably good shape ; it had played its part in the war and its local and national structures were attenuated but intact ( a major and significant contrast with the effect of war on the Liberals ) . |
| 29 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 30 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |