Example sentences of "been [art] significant " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important side-effect of both these objectives has been the significant increase in the numbers caught in the dependency culture of means-tested assistance . |
| 2 | One undoubted plus has been the significant improvement in the performance of Britain 's economy . |
| 3 | On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition . |
| 4 | It is difficult to be precise about the outcome , but again the general impression seems to be that there has been no significant and continuing deterioration , and some well-placed observers thought that behaviour had , on the whole , improved . |
| 5 | No precise data exists ; it is known , however , that there have been no significant declines in French breeding birds associated with farmland generally since the 1936 Inventory of French Birds . |
| 6 | Since our last look at this area of the market six months ago there has been no significant shift in the level of starting salaries . |
| 7 | There has been no significant advance on the theories of the press as set out by Siebert et al . |
| 8 | And yet quite clearly there have been no significant increases in the productivity of Chinese agriculture and certainly no large scale industrialization . |
| 9 | No one had investigated inner-city language in this way before , so for all we knew there might have been no significant differences at all , and we were told by at least one colleague — not very encouragingly — that ‘ Broad Belfast ’ dialect was all very much the same . |
| 10 | There had been no significant change in the interim nor any change in the local authority 's proposed future management . |
| 11 | There has been no significant biological evolution , or change in human DNA , in the last ten thousand years . |
| 12 | It took the view that ‘ there has been no significant increase in recent times in the level of psychological maturity of girls under 16 and that [ these girls ] face greater problems today than their mothers did at their age . ’ ; |
| 13 | The previous 1991 order was discussed at a slightly later time of night , but on the same day of the week nine months ago , since when there has been no significant change in the construction industry 's circumstances . |
| 14 | It is , however , harder to explain purely in the context of the theory of contestable markets why some firms ' eurobond operations have continued to be successful while others have been unable to establish themselves , why there has been no significant decline in market concentration over time despite continual new entry , and why profitability has declined so steeply . |
| 15 | There has also been a significant decline in the cult of the saints , and many of the practices which characterized the devotional revolution of the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 16 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 17 | There has been a significant reduction in the numbers of young people placed in residential settings over the past two decades . |
| 18 | The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) . |
| 19 | Entrepreneurship has not been a significant mechanism for social mobility in Latin America . |
| 20 | Personal correspondence has been a significant means of direction down the years . |
| 21 | Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate . |
| 22 | There has been a significant growth in non-elected local government , of local quangos . |
| 23 | There has been a significant shifting of emphasis here . |
| 24 | On the debit side , there is unlikely to have been a significant shift of travel in such a small town from cars towards public transport or indeed towards the bicycle . |
| 25 | With the demolition of so much property at the centre of Birkenhead there has been a significant decline in the number of St Laurence 's parishioners . |
| 26 | Though the majority of those reviewing Braverman 's work took a positive view of his thesis , there have been a significant number of detailed criticisms and revisions to his argument . |
| 27 | Not all can be traced to the Black Death , but it must have been a significant factor . |
| 28 | Although it would be difficult to document the generalisation , it seems to me that there has been a significant decline , over the past ten or fifteen years , in the degree of confidence in the scope and security of foundations in both psychology and linguistics . |
| 29 | There will no longer be a requirement to include an accountant 's report in listing particulars or circulars unless there has been a significant change in the company 's financial position within the last three financial years , or its accounts in any of those three years have been qualified . |
| 30 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |