Example sentences of "[v-ing] a significant [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salt business is highly profitable ( £91m on $466m sales in 1991 , representing a significant proportion of the company 's pretax profits of £214m ) and provides much of the cash for growth . |
| 2 | The answer , quite simply , is that other port employees are now allocated to dock work , representing a significant change to both working practices and labour utilisation . |
| 3 | Towards the end of 1992 Draught Guinness was launched in Sweden , representing a significant breakthrough for the import of foreign draught beers . |
| 4 | After the First World War the term ‘ regional planning ’ was used extensively , the new practice representing a significant extension to planning practice . |
| 5 | Overcrowding is becoming a significant problem with the explosion in mobile communications and broadcasting services . |
| 6 | Individuals in the party and the government came to use the situation in whatever way they could to optimize their own position , ranging from exercising the increased power which district and regional officials now had over the citizenry , to carrying out routine tasks perfunctorily while acquiring a significant income from black market activities . |
| 7 | The Soviet Union gave appreciable assistance in cultivating a significant air strength in contrast to the United States , which concentrated solely on the army in the south , ruling out aid in the air and naval spheres . |
| 8 | However , it is clear that the monitoring of contracts is not a costless exercise and it is known from more aggregate economic studies that the administrative costs of health care systems embodying a significant market element are much higher than those of the NHS ( Maxwell , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Each child registered may well bring the school an additional £500 — this extra money forming a significant part of a school 's funding . |
| 10 | Other tourist services forming a significant part of the package |
| 11 | But there is an additional condition : we should be able to see a prominent feature of style as forming a significant relationship with other features of style , in an artistically coherent pattern of choice . |
| 12 | By 1982 , stratospheric-flying aircraft , whether supersonic or subsonic , would be expected to have a ‘ negative effect ’ on ozone — that is , causing a significant depletion of the ozone layer ( Hulm , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | In addition , the Legal Affairs and Citizens ' Rights Committee has been supported by the Parliament in plenary session in advocating a significant extension of the SE Regulation . |
| 14 | Some land was disposed of in 1891 , but in 1948 over 10,000 acres were sold , marking a significant turning point in the estate 's history . |
| 15 | As the drawing suggests , the process of extraction means extracting a significant item from a whole . |
| 16 | Environmentalists unsuccessfully lobbied the US Congress in 1988 to ban the technique of encircling dolphins , but did succeed in forcing a significant law change . |
| 17 | Geoff Fear , Supervisor from Pest Control in Chester has succeeded where others failed by securing a significant price increase from a large bakery in Northwich . |
| 18 | A press release had been issued by Fidelity early in March 1984 forecasting a significant profits shortfall . |
| 19 | We are maintaining a significant presence in Northern Ireland : there will still be a higher percentage of volunteers per head of population there than in all but two of the other TAVRA areas . |
| 20 | The simple fact is that Ford can not begin to exercise its stated intention of building a significant stake in Jaguar for another two weeks . |
| 21 | Inflation stayed at four point three per cent last month bringing a significant boost to the economy . |
| 22 | I wish I 'd brought the environment committee before so I could quote from it but from er recollection it says that that organisation did not have a consistent record of producing a significant number of jobs and that the expenditure on funding them did not provide value for money . |
| 23 | Assuming a fair wind on major infrastructure , access , and drainage , it is unlikely that a new settlement would be producing a significant group of housings until somewhere around , at the very best , end ninety six into the of ninety seven period , in that context , what is happening in that short intervening period , assuming certain planning guidance comes forward to help that intervening period , and will that new settlement actually be built out prior to two prior to two thousand and six , will the fourteen hundred dwellings be built in that period , question mark , probably not , it will lap over , therefore in that context of a gap at the beginning , and a potential overlap at the end , it is very important again to revisit the peripheral land issue . |
| 24 | Although they might be observed by gamma-ray detectors on satellites or balloons , it would be difficult to fly a detector large enough to have a reasonable chance of intercepting a significant number of gamma-ray photons from one explosion . |
| 25 | In particular it provided flexibility by including a significant proportion of short term placements . |
| 26 | ‘ Such as the female of the species , ’ Lucy cut in , sending a significant glance towards Doreen . |
| 27 | The document then put forward three possible options : the setting up of a small central body , along the lines of Model A in the English Green Paper , which would have a majority of its membership from Welsh local authorities ; a Model B type central body which would disburse government funds in Wales and would take from local authority control the colleges providing a significant amount of higher education , including teacher training ; and the direct association in Wales of the solution adopted in England through the setting up of a Welsh sub-committee of the main organization . |
| 28 | Any prospect of that providing a significant amount of our energy needs ? |
| 29 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |
| 30 | Thirdly , anyone experiencing a significant loss will move into a time of yearning and searching . |