Example sentences of "has a significant " in BNC.

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1 The following demonstration compares a stall with a little too much rudder to a stall in a slightly slipping turn , and shows how even slightly too much rudder has a significant effect at the stall .
2 Although AMP has a significant stake , other British insurance companies own over 20 per cent of Pearl 's shares .
3 Willie Carson , Rock City 's rider , has a significant ride to start of the afternoon when he partners Nashwan 's half-brother , Mukddaam ( 1.30 ) , on his first racecourse appearance , which has been delayed by injury and hard ground .
4 Hence the mythologisation of Debord by Levin , and others , has a significant bearing upon the reception of his work .
5 If your conference has a significant attendance , it may be worth your while to stage an exhibition and sell stands to related groups .
6 Chlorinated trisodium polyphosphate is the combination of a strongly alkaline phosphate and chlorine and therefore has a significant cleaning capability although it suffers as a disinfectant through its low chlorine content .
7 Bulgaria also has a significant programme .
8 The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility .
9 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 .
10 The £1.5 billion-a-year Scotch whisky industry has a significant new player in Glasgow-based Gibson International , a buy-out company backed by 3i .
11 Many other people have rights , including those concerned with fishing , and in my native Scotland the value of fishing has a significant part to play in the local economy , particulary in remote areas .
12 West Africa also has a significant proportion in the countries of the Ivory Coast , Nigeria , the Congo , Gabon , Zaire , Cameroon and Madagascar .
13 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 ) .
14 It has a significant interest in the Harp lager consortium , and about 11 per cent of the take-home brown ale market .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 If the IMF has a significant dawn/duskward component ( out of the plane of the diagram ) , magnetic tension also causes east/west motion on the most recently reconnected field lines .
18 Information is relevant when it has a significant effect on our assumptions : in other words , when it will allow us to alter our knowledge structures to give us a more accurate representation of the world .
19 But the type of musing he entertains has a significant difference , for it is not , as that precedent would suggest , either moralistic or subjective .
20 While wage rates depend on productivity , and the degree of competition in an industry , they are also influenced by the organized force exerted by labor on capital : unionism has a significant direct effect on wages and fringe benefits … .
21 Little evidence , sceptics argue , has been adduced to support the claim that such teaching has a significant impact in reducing prejudice .
22 Where the parent company or group has a significant holding ( 10% or more shares of an undertaking or more than 10% of the investing company 's assets ) in an undertaking ( which is not a subsidiary undertaking , joint venture or associated undertaking ) the following must be stated :
23 This directed graph has a significant property which is common in real tasks : At almost all nodes , the node has at least as many children as parents , and several nodes have more children than parents .
24 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 .
25 In all this , music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations .
26 However , the Commission believes strongly that music has a significant contribution to make to the Decade of Evangelism .
27 But it can be argued that marketing has a significant role within any social work agency .
28 Indeed , as we will see later , it still has a significant role to play even when the latest presentation graphics software is being used to generate the information .
29 In so doing she demonstrates that the potential scope of the novel is enriched , not exhausted , by technological development , and that , conceived as an ‘ open ’ and heterogeneous genre , the novel still has a significant role to play in contemporary society , both as a mode of knowledge and as a means of communication .
30 Without the explicit power to charge depreciation , this effectively means that local authorities have to adopt the ‘ charge in lieu of depreciation ’ method of accounting and as such has a significant effect on their accounts ( see Chapter 9 ) .
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