Example sentences of "[verb] make a significant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares in Bennett & Fountain will hit a fresh low for this year on Monday after an out-of-hours announcement last night that ‘ the group has made a significant pre-tax loss for the year to 30 June ’ , due to difficulties in the retail division . |
| 2 | Whether this input has made a significant impact on the pattern of activity is a moot point . |
| 3 | This is not to deny that Volvo has made a significant innovation in work organisation and production technology , but it is one evolutionary step and not a revolution . |
| 4 | Already the computer has made a significant contribution to the processing of much of the routine data generated by office staff . |
| 5 | The GASB ( 1990 ) has made a significant contribution to the problems of defining the reporting entity . |
| 6 | Take heart : the green consumer movement has made a significant dent in manufacturing practices over a very short time . |
| 7 | It will also take account of the successful introduction of DROPS — the demountable rack offloading and pickup system — which has made a significant contribution to the capability of the Royal Corps of Transport , given the quantity of stores that can be shifted with the available resources . |
| 8 | THE RUC has made a significant breakthrough against a large IRA killer squad operating in North Belfast . |
| 9 | The acquisition in October 1992 of The Alta Group Inc. , a leading supplier of high purity titanium , has made a significant contribution to operating profit . |
| 10 | Publication in a high-impact factor journal such as Nature represents an acknowledgment that the work is at the cutting edge of science , and that it has made a significant contribution to that science . |
| 11 | The research — which will be conducted under the auspices of the Universiti Brunei Darussalam and extends over a two-and -a-half year period — is expected to make a significant contribution to current debates about the exploitation and future of rainforest , and to attempts to place economic values on its component parts . |
| 12 | ‘ The association fully supports the society in this endeavour and stands prepared to make a significant contribution to any consultations that take place . ’ |
| 13 | This information has been shown to make a significant contribution to the recognition process , and is described in detail in Chapter Four . |
| 14 | It has been shown to make a significant contribution to text recognition , and the results are described in Chapter Three . |
| 15 | The aim is to check whether the conventional view of the characteristics of poor households can be substantiated by close empirical investigation of large samples of households and whether the measure by which households are ranked makes a significant difference to the effectiveness of anti-poverty policies . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if tomorrow I confirm a speculative theory implying that the gravitational attraction between two bodies depends on their temperature , falsifying Newton 's theory in the process , I would have made a significant contribution to scientific knowledge . |
| 17 | He might have made a significant contribution to the public life of this country had he not been totally overshadowed by his illustrious father and had he not had such a burning desire to shine as bright or even brighter . |
| 18 | The individual teacher may well have made a significant development in his or her own understanding , but that is not a sufficient condition of securing publication ( thesis three ) . |
| 19 | The 5/ a week given in 1908 to those aged over seventy would have made a significant contribution to the pre-war family economy , but the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women 's Organisations and members of the Fabian Women 's Group felt that this should be weighed against the increased friction caused by an old person coming into an already overcrowded home , pointing out that elderly people 's ideas of hygiene and childrearing might not be desirable , an argument that appealed to the infant welfare movement . |
| 20 | The unanimous condemnation of marriage as a trade by the feminist movement may also have made a significant contribution to the new emphasis on marriage as a partnership . |
| 21 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 22 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 23 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 24 | The UK Catalogue Use Study attempted to show that library instruction seems to make a significant difference to the extent of catalogue use . |
| 25 | I believe , however , that over the past 20 years an important body of evidence has emerged which strongly suggests that schools do make a significant difference both to pupil attainment and pupil behaviour . |
| 26 | As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories . |
| 27 | Remarkably this subtle difference in the way an idea is put makes a significant difference to the response . |
| 28 | Doctors believe they 've made a significant breakthrough in the fight against one of Britain 's fastest growing illnesses . |
| 29 | Now scientists working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford believe they 've made a significant discovery in how asthma is passed down the family tree . |
| 30 | In areas where fascism had made a significant challenge its presence was likely to be embarrassing . |