Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [conj] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total losses on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ — which is the largest insurance loss ever recorded — are now estimated at $65m and but for this factor we would have reported a welcome and significant return to profitability in 1992 . |
| 2 | Its trading account is substantially in credit and it has no overdue or significant trading debts . |
| 3 | In patients with bladder cance , MRI has a small but significant advantage over computed tomography in assessing the presence of extra vesicle spread . |
| 4 | Bell has a small but significant place in English architectural history , not only for the strength of his designs but also as an occasional architect coming , unusually , from the mercantile community rather than from the court or the gentry . |
| 5 | Vocational training has a large and significant effect on offer arrival rates , ceteris paribus , but other educational qualifications or a completed apprenticeship matter only insignificantly . |
| 6 | Media is all-invasive and , some would say , all-persuasive , but it has a fundamental and significant role in our life for it forms a communication network between communities , between industry and industry and between government and people . |
| 7 | Studies by Atkinson and Kincaid in Britain , Harrington in the USA , and official government studies in both countries , reveal a persistent and significant section of the population living in poverty-stricken circumstances at any one time , to say nothing of the many others , who , at certain crucial periods of their life ( e.g. the old , families with young children ) , may temporarily lapse into poverty . |
| 8 | Introduction of air , saline ( isotonic and hypertonic ) , glucose ( isotonic and hypertonic ) , oleic acid ( without bile salts ) , and casein hydrolysate all failed to release PYY but glucose caused a small but significant increase in enteroglycagon concentrations . |
| 9 | Only in rats subjected to stress did bFGF ( given subcutaneously in a large dose ) cause a small but significant attenuation of the mucosal lesions and this was accompanied by increased gastric blood flow suggesting that the maintenance of gastric circulation in stressed rats could explain this protection . |
| 10 | So far , such encouragement has seen a small but significant increase in the numbers of acrylic courts being laid . |
| 11 | ‘ Besides being a tower of strength in education , ’ said Burrow , ‘ she has also made a systematic and significant contribution to our membership recruitment drives in collating more than 700 names and addresses of potential members from strategically important organisations . ’ |
| 12 | Contrary to expectations , fundholders ' NHS referral rates showed a small but significant increase from the first phase to the second phase of the study ( table III ) . |
| 13 | when John Brunner and Ludwig Mond teamed up as partners to start up soda ash production in mid-Cheshire in 1873 , they opened a new and significant chapter in the history of the British chemical industry . |
| 14 | Such monumental works that are extant in all parts of the empire are without decoration of any kind , but consist simply of arch after arch for miles across the landscape , presenting an impressive and significant spectacle of considerable aesthetic quality , as important in the study of Roman architecture as , for example , the Colosseum . |
| 15 | At a concentration of 5×10 - 5 M , N-monomethyl-L-arginine produced a partial but significant inhibition of the nerve mediated relaxations , reducing them to 72.4% ( 3.5% ) of their original size ( n=22 ) ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 16 | The band visible at the bottom of lane 10 is caused by methylated oligonucleotide and reflects the small but significant activity of the mutant enzyme discussed in detail above . |
| 17 | The authoritative review of the theoretical and empirical literature from a number of countries conducted by Godfrey for the OECD concluded that all the various methods used to measure the incentive/disincentive effects ‘ indicate that taxation does not have a large and significant effect in the total supply of work effort and that , in particular , the net effect on the labour supply of male family heads is likely to be very small ’ . |
| 18 | In general then , Barro 's results appear to represent a small but significant body of evidence in support of the sort of rational expectations macro-economic model developed in chapter 4 . |
| 19 | In the dark , the free cGMP level in ROS , estimated to be about 4–10 μM , maintains a small but significant number of channels in their open state , allowing for the influx of Na + and Ca 2+ . |
| 20 | If this is a primitive point of reference for social criticism , it nonetheless equipped Leapor to make a brave and significant statement on rural life . |
| 21 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |