Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conventionally , those patterns whose left-hand or most significant bit position contains a zero represent positive values , and those where it contains a one represent negative values . |
| 2 | These two values are represented in fixed-point binary format , the exponent as an integer and the fraction with the binary point to the left of its left-hand or most significant bit ( although , as we shall see , the latter convention is not invariable ) . |
| 3 | However a small scattering of calibrated stations could provide an interesting and potentially significant source of scientific date on radio propagation . |
| 4 | The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic . |
| 5 | April brought another and more significant meeting to raise Coleridge from ‘ calm hopelessness ’ and financial worry . |
| 6 | The largest and most significant effect of the glitch is seen to be the persistent change in slowdown rate , amounting to 0.04% . |
| 7 | The worst and most significant job loss , in the overall period 1981 to 1987 , was met in Cleveland ( 32.9 per cent ; see Chapter 10 ) , and this area demonstrates one of the severest proportionate ‘ differential shifts ’ among those mapped at Figure 5.4B , along with Greater London and Merseyside . |
| 8 | In this context I want to refer to a brief but highly significant passage in Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 9 | When combined with a newly emerging and financially significant youth culture sharing a common childhood memory of war-time austerity , and specifically targeted by aggressively competitive marketing , the package boom of the fifties was irresistible . |
| 10 | The New Deal was a complex and highly significant process of change , the effects of which have continued to be felt in American history ever since the 1930s . |
| 11 | Without doubt the rarest and most significant item offered yesterday was the ‘ Ashburton Cabinet ’ , an ormolu-mounted ivory-inlaid kingwood and parquetry bureau-cabinet by the Piedmontese sculptor and cabinet-maker Pietro Piffetti of around 1770 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 19 , June 1992 , p.18 ) . |
| 12 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 13 | The exhibition , curated by Joan Solomon and Sue Isherwood , highlights the first and most significant relationship in most women 's lives ( until 22 Mar ) . |
| 14 | Kimura also found that among normal right handed subjects there was a small but statistically significant advantage in recall of verbal material presented to the right ear . |
| 15 | In the double blind component of the study by the European working party on high blood pressure in the elderly there was an apparently impressive but barely significant reduction in cardiac deaths ( -47% , p=0.048 ) . |
| 16 | A related and equally significant problem arises from Kemp 's search for causal historical relations between science and art . |
| 17 | They share a common and deeply significant trend in philosophy , and that trend is to get away from hierarchy and control and to move towards emphasis upon what Peters calls ‘ The Front Line People ’ — and we know who they are ! |
| 18 | Before looking more closely at Habermas 's contributions to the theory of ideology I will first consider Althusser 's briefer but still significant analysis . |
| 19 | Alt ( 1971 , p. 60 ) has likewise shown that before Health Service reorganization in 1974 there was a ‘ consistent , positive and generally significant correlation between Labour representation and spending on local health services ’ . |
| 20 | He regressed the change in the spot price on the change in the futures price for the previous five-minute period and found a positive and highly significant relationship . |
| 21 | At least one study has found a positive and statistically significant relationship between maternal ratings of children 's command of specific vocabulary items and performance on a formal language test ( Cunningham and Sloper 1984 ) and this provides some support for the validity of checklist assessments . |
| 22 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 23 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |