Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] significant [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However a small scattering of calibrated stations could provide an interesting and potentially significant source of scientific date on radio propagation . |
| 2 | The largest and most significant effect of the glitch is seen to be the persistent change in slowdown rate , amounting to 0.04% . |
| 3 | In this context I want to refer to a brief but highly significant passage in Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 4 | The New Deal was a complex and highly significant process of change , the effects of which have continued to be felt in American history ever since the 1930s . |
| 5 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 6 | The exhibition , curated by Joan Solomon and Sue Isherwood , highlights the first and most significant relationship in most women 's lives ( until 22 Mar ) . |
| 7 | Kimura also found that among normal right handed subjects there was a small but statistically significant advantage in recall of verbal material presented to the right ear . |
| 8 | In the double blind component of the study by the European working party on high blood pressure in the elderly there was an apparently impressive but barely significant reduction in cardiac deaths ( -47% , p=0.048 ) . |
| 9 | They share a common and deeply significant trend in philosophy , and that trend is to get away from hierarchy and control and to move towards emphasis upon what Peters calls ‘ The Front Line People ’ — and we know who they are ! |
| 10 | Alt ( 1971 , p. 60 ) has likewise shown that before Health Service reorganization in 1974 there was a ‘ consistent , positive and generally significant correlation between Labour representation and spending on local health services ’ . |
| 11 | At least one study has found a positive and statistically significant relationship between maternal ratings of children 's command of specific vocabulary items and performance on a formal language test ( Cunningham and Sloper 1984 ) and this provides some support for the validity of checklist assessments . |
| 12 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |