Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second most significant sector is Food and drink [ excluding whisky ] , contributing 28% to the national total . |
| 2 | The first nutritionally significant foodcrop to be introduced in the past 5000 years is a hybrid of wheat and rye . |
| 3 | The only really significant inroad into the dominance of English in recent years has come from Spanish in the southern states of the US . |
| 4 | The only statistically significant difference between the groups was for the presence of blood in the stool ; 5-ASA patients had significantly less blood reported than the bismuth group . |
| 5 | Hiatal hernia was the only statistically significant predictor of oesophageal mucosal status . |
| 6 | While education was the single most significant activity the employers of Advanced Course students engaged in , when it came to job titles and the nature of the jobs the students were or would be doing , educational occupations were not dominant in the same way . |
| 7 | The single most significant feature in this landscape was the Labour Party . |
| 8 | Concentration on seatbelt usage — the single most significant contributor to injury reduction in car accidents — delayed the arrival of the airbag in Europe . |
| 9 | It 's probably the single most significant invention of the industrial age , in terms of its effect on our everyday lives . |
| 10 | In short , the single most significant factor in the unemployed status of those who had previously worked had been their use of heroin . |
| 11 | But heating and housing technology were not brought to bear on this , the single most significant change in the way we live . |
| 12 | The evidence shows clearly that the single most significant cause of decline in upland bird species in the UK as a whole is the removal of moorland habitat . |
| 13 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |
| 14 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |
| 15 | Perhaps the other highly significant change in Sussex agriculture to have affected birds is the more recent and extensive drainage of the important areas of wet permanent pasture in the river valleys and levels , which amount to some 16,000 hectares . |
| 16 | The line reach Garth in May , Llanwrtyd in June 1867 and finally Llandovery in October 1868 , having traversed the two most significant engineering problems on this section — the Sugar Loaf tunnel and Cynghordy Viaduct . |
| 17 | The next most significant bit ( bit 1 ) is also set at this stage and these two bits of the accumulator are then written to the PIA lines used as the direction and clock start/stop signals . |
| 18 | The neural mechanisms that underlie this behaviour , and especially those by which a simple act is incorporated into a larger biologically significant behaviour pattern , are now being studied increasingly , despite the many difficulties ( Hoyle , 1970 ) . |
| 19 | The circumstances of the breach ( which followed a previous less significant breach ) were drawn to the plaintiffs ' attention by the defendants ' solicitors by letter dated 30 April 1991 as follows : |