Example sentences of "[prep] [be] a significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Costs of this magnitude and doubts about the ability to recoup them through improvements in efficiency or other gains are likely to be a significant disincentive to attempting a take-over and their scale suggests that they constitute a barrier behind which sub-optimally performing boards can find a substantial measure of protection . |
| 2 | A report commissioned from Lazard Brothers , the merchant bank , by members of the Ferranti family and obtained by The Independent , reveals that Sir Derek Alun-Jones , Ferranti 's chairman , was told that Ferranti ‘ may be unable to exercise full management control ’ and that ISC was likely ‘ to be a significant drain on its ( Ferranti 's ) cash resources ’ . |
| 3 | However , there was to be a significant change as the convoy journeyed further north . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it would seem that this was not considered to be a significant proportion . |
| 5 | Per Andersen of IDC 's European Unix Expertise Centre believes this to be a significant trend that will shape the industry over the next two years . |
| 6 | However , serum triglyceride levels did not prove to be a significant factor for coronary heart disease in this multivariate analysis and this is probably because of the correction made for the inverse relationship between triglycerides and HDL . |
| 7 | How you make a choice of career is likely to be a significant factor in determining how successful it ultimately is . |
| 8 | As well as increasing anxiety , irritability and mood changes , the menopause saps memory and concentration , causes physical pain in the joints and muscles , and , if improperly treated , is believed to be a significant factor in the incidence of osteoporosis or ‘ brittle bone ’ disease in later life . |
| 9 | The excess of expenditure over income was £83,604 , and the TBC was obliged to rely on subventions from the government ; that continued reliance was to be a significant factor in decisions that were taken later . |
| 10 | To a limited and inadequate extent this was recognised in classical criminology : Beccaria acknowledged that the content , as well as the operation , of legal rules was likely to be a significant factor in the degree of compliance that could be expected . |
| 11 | However , linear precedence has been shown to be a significant factor affecting the manner in which words associate with each other [ Church & hanks , 1989 ] . |
| 12 | Of other possible causes of these disparities in achievement , IQ differences were considered at length , but not found to be a significant factor . |
| 13 | The size of the collections which currently use LCC is likely to be a significant factor in its perpetuation . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the juxtaposition of terranes with often dramatically different lithologies and structural characteristics is likely to be a significant factor in the long-term development of landscapes . |
| 15 | If price is thought to be a significant factor in the product 's success , then the manufacturer should only deal with distributors who are willing to agree a mark-up and selling price with the manufacturer . |
| 16 | It is worth recording also that urban contraction among the extra-mural areas does not appear to be a significant feature before the mid fourth century . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Customs and Excise is celebrating what it believes to be a significant blow to the drugs trade . |
| 18 | The possibility that this approach might appear to poor parents as a punishment for their poverty was not considered to be a significant part of the equation . |
| 19 | If we are asking when the issue of who were England 's legitimate rulers was resolved , then the answer can clearly not be 1660 or 1688 ; 1715 , with the failure of the Jacobite rebellion might have a strong claim , although there are some scholars who would maintain that Jacobitism continued to be a significant threat thereafter , so that the succession did not finally disappear as a political issue until after the failure of the rebellion in 1745 . |
| 20 | Because of the historian 's reliance on the availability of information compiled by previous generations — back-projected third parties , if you like — rather than the self-compilation of information or the use of that compiled contemporaneously by third parties , the availability of ‘ documentary ’ source materials to the historian 's of the future may prove to be a significant problem hindering the study of history . |
| 21 | It is not clear whether there were actually craft workshops in the West Wing at Zakro but , if so , it seems to be a significant departure from the pattern observed at the other temples , where the votive workshops were in the east , as at Knossos , or north-east , as at Phaistos . |
| 22 | I me going to be a significant event , well it |
| 23 | Moreover , once a foreign producer has captured what he judges to be a significant share of the market he then eases prices upwards while increasing his share by other devices such as advertising and superior servicing and distribution . |
| 24 | To do this the Commission must have regard to barriers to entry likely to deter new market entrants and to whether a result of the merger is likely to be a significant raising of those barriers . |
| 25 | We thus expect there to be a significant region right next to the wall in which the velocity profile is linear , |
| 26 | However at the time of any one person 's death or loss through some other means there are likely to be a significant number of people affected , not just the next of kin . |
| 27 | There certainly seems to be a significant polarisation between the sexes in their approach to driving . |
| 28 | Discarded lead shot-gun pellets and lead fishing weights are also considered to be a significant cause of game-bird mortality in both North America and Britain . |
| 29 | This form of predation by Egyptian vultures is thought to be a significant source of egg loss for many ostriches . |
| 30 | More generally , can we identify the circumstances under which siblings are likely to be a significant source of support ? |