Example sentences of "[verb] a significant [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus exposure to FGF-4 causes a significant increase in the number of cells initiating DNA synthesis . |
| 2 | We conclude that acute cigarette smoking causes a significant fall in gastric secretion ( Vg ) , and suggest that this results in raised gastrin values that have a tropic effect on the parietal cell , thereby accounting for the raised secretory capacity of chronic smokers . |
| 3 | Both estimates suggest a significant increase in the numbers of elderly with chronic health problems in the early decades of next century . |
| 4 | This was based on the 1975 white paper which proposed a significant increase in home food production to reduce dependence on imports which had risen sharply in cost . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When Newham 's custody of that school ceased , the standards of education were appallingly low , but Her Majesty 's inspectors now report a significant improvement in educational standards there — |
| 7 | However , there are conflicting results ; Corbett et al found a significant fall in ejection fraction in patients who later suffered cardiac events but these findings were not confirmed by Borer or Abraham . |
| 8 | One study found a significant increase in childhood leukaemias in the corridors of land underneath the country 's network of power lines . |
| 9 | In a further study of the platelet-aggregate ratio in diabetic subjects , Preston et al found a significant reduction in the diabetic group and this was due mainly to those diabetics with evidence of microvascular complications ( Preston et al , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | SIR — Wang and colleagues ' meta-analysis of intensive blood-glucose control found a significant reduction in late complications . |
| 11 | Lee found a significant improvement in bottom-up word recognition — 45.3% to 53.4% . |
| 12 | We found a significant difference in the antral mucosal peptic activity before and after treatment . |
| 13 | Among the randomised trials of exercise based rehabilitation after myocardial infarction performed in the 1970s and 80s only one reported a significant reduction in cardiac mortality , but some of these trials offered only short term follow up while others were small and vulnerable to type II statistical error . |
| 14 | The Bank of Botswana reported a significant decline in revenue from the main exports of diamonds , copper-nickel and meat for the first quarter of 1990 . |
| 15 | Some older people suffering from these and other major conditions can undergo a significant change in personality which can be distressing to people close to them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The patients not only showed an improved continence mechanism , but also reported a significant decrease in urgency . |
| 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 | Thus , neither Latin American political developments nor Latin American suspicions of the USSR — although either or both may lie behind isolated set-backs to Soviet policy — can any longer be considered a significant factor in the overall development of commercial relations . |
| 20 | It is clear from the evidence on British kinship that people do acknowledge a wide range of uncles , aunts , nieces , nephews and cousins as forming part of their kin network in some sense , but whether these people place a significant part in structures of support is quite another matter . |
| 21 | ‘ The UK is a logical next step for Alco Office Products and Erskine House is an ideal fit considering that it also has a significant presence in the US market and complementary interests in Germany , ’ Alco chairman and chief executive Ray Mundt commented . |
| 22 | West Africa also has a significant proportion in the countries of the Ivory Coast , Nigeria , the Congo , Gabon , Zaire , Cameroon and Madagascar . |
| 23 | And it is crucial to recognize that widespread racial discrimination has been an important factor in reproducing these patterns of employment and settlement and , as we shall see , also has a significant role in explanations of levels of achievement by black pupils in British schools . |
| 24 | Generation has a significant role in this paradigm because in many bilingual communities , the first generation who settled in Britain from abroad were native speakers of a language very unlike English and had had little or no exposure to English . |
| 25 | Furthermore rural unemployment rates are higher on average than those in towns , so that although it is less visible than urban unemployment , because the absolute numbers involved are so much smaller , rural unemployment has a significant effect in dampening down rural wage increases . |
| 26 | The leisure group , which has a significant holding in Rank Xerox , has included a summary unaudited balance sheet in its interim report for the first time ( the report covers the 28 weeks ended 16 May 1992 ) . |
| 27 | The ceremony , as a religious ceremony , is a mockery , yet as a social ceremony , with the gathering of relatives and friends , the honour of being asked to be godparents , the tea-party afterwards and the christening presents given ( silver objects in particular ) , the whole thing has a significant place in the lives of the people concerned . |
| 28 | Little evidence , sceptics argue , has been adduced to support the claim that such teaching has a significant impact in reducing prejudice . |
| 29 | It has a significant interest in the Harp lager consortium , and about 11 per cent of the take-home brown ale market . |
| 30 | The Panel will not regard an adviser as independent if he is in the same group as the financial adviser to an offeror , or if he has a significant interest in or financial connection with either an offeror or the target company of such a kind as to create a conflict of interest ( Rule 3.3 ) . |