Example sentences of "[to-vb] a significant [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays , too , the suggestion that a woman 's role consists entirely of slaving over the cooker , the kitchen sink and the washing is certain to irritate a significant number of people , though it is still a real enough situation for the majority of women . |
| 2 | The aim of the research is to help those with responsibilities for educational provision to meet a significant challenge of the 1990s , namely : to establish systematic and credible systems for assessing the quality of schooling and thereby to improve the learning opportunities of all young people . |
| 3 | Further to our meeting earlier this week , I am writing to you to outline how KPMG Peat Marwick ( ‘ KPMG ’ ) may assist you with your plans to establish a significant presence in Europe in [ ] services . |
| 4 | The other candidates were excluded from the run-off , but Young was unable to garner a significant share of their votes , polling 38 per cent of the total compared with 62 per cent for Miller . |
| 5 | This has enabled us to secure a significant contract relating to a drug delivery system . ’ |
| 6 | and Torrington and Weightman would seem to indicate a significant emphasis on 1 , 2 3 and 4 with substantially less stress on 5 , 6 and 7 . |
| 7 | Taken together , even with this small sample , these results seem to indicate a significant correlation between readers ' familiarity with the SF genre and their likely perception of the meaning and coherence of the text . |
| 8 | The proportion of ulcers healed after two weeks , in the presence and absence of the five prospectively defined risk factors , was assessed using Fisher 's exact test : an alpha level of 0.05 , corrected to 0.01 according to Bonferroni to allow for multiple comparisons , was taken to indicate a significant difference in healing rates . |
| 9 | The critical chain length c is interpreted as representing the dividing point between chains which are too short to provide a significant contribution to η from entanglement effects and those large enough to cause retardation of flow by intertwining with their neighbours . |
| 10 | However , the level of both permissible earnings and of increments on deferment was too low to provide a significant disincentive to retirement — an indication of the Labour government 's ambivalence on the issue . |
| 11 | Thus , while the Government 's scheme to purchase some 20,000 properties will help reduce the overhang of unsold properties , it is unlikely to provide a significant boost to the market as a whole . |
| 12 | And indeed with our external ones also who have continued to provide a significant source of income to our business . |
| 13 | It thus appears to neglect a significant part of care under the National Health Service which is of crucial importance to elderly people and their carers . |
| 14 | Fennel , Bowers and Satz ( 1977 ) , for example , took pains to devise a tachistoscopic analogue of their dichotic task and still failed to find a significant correlation between the two sets of scores , although there was an increasing agreement over four testing sessions between the side of the ear advantage and the superior visual half-field . |
| 15 | I was sorry to find a significant omission , however . |
| 16 | Barker et al also failed to find a significant association between birth weight and wheeze . |
| 17 | Bryden and Rainey ( 1963 ) also failed to find a significant hemifield difference in the perception of geometric forms , as did Lordahl , Kleinman , Levy , Massoth , Pessin , Storandt , Tucker and Vanderplas ( 1965 ) using random shapes as stimuli . |
| 18 | Employment in the years following the childrearing phase is also important in enabling married and divorced women to obtain a significant improvement in their occupational pension entitlement , and reduce the concentration of poverty among elderly women . |
| 19 | By holding NI numbers on our CPIS we were able to obtain a significant saving on labour . |
| 20 | While Germany spends 40% of her tax revenue on social security , Germans have been dismayed to observe a significant increase in homelessness and destitution on the streets of her cities , especially the rich western cities like Stuttgart and Munich . |
| 21 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 22 | It has been said that the Court should consider an interim sum ‘ which would alleviate or mitigate the sufferings or hardships of the pursuer as a result of the injuries during the interim period until the case is finally decided ’ but , more recently , some judges have been persuaded that there is no reason why the interim payment should be restricted to the period up to the date of Proof and that if some estimate of the full value of the claim can be made , the pursuer is entitled to receive a significant portion thereof . |
| 23 | McHale , who is set to receive a significant increase in his budget for next season , has signed four players and expects to increase that to five today . |
| 24 | As a result , Antarctic science was one of the few research disciplines to receive a significant funding boost in the 1980s . |
| 25 | In Karnataka at least 16 people , mostly Tamils , were reported killed in violent incidents on Dec. 11-13 after the Cauvary [ River ] Water Dispute Tribunal ordered the state to allocate a significant amount of water annually to Tamil Nadu . |
| 26 | We have argued in favour of retirement relief , as land is merely one of several business assets and as such does not have to be part of a disposal for that disposal to constitute a significant part of the business . |
| 27 | Poles had proved in 1830 – 1 that they posed a genuine threat to the unity of the empire , but Ukrainians were not to constitute a significant danger for decades . |
| 28 | The group award should be designed to cover a significant range of activities . |
| 29 | Until the advent of man in physical geography it could be argued that physical geographers had escaped from the effects of human activity by concentrating their endeavours upon rural and unmodified spatial areas and upon time scales prior to the time when human activity began to exercise a significant influence . |
| 30 | Our business is concentrated in two main producing regions , the UK and Indonesia , where we continue to focus a significant amount of our activity . |