Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] significant [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The first nutritionally significant foodcrop to be introduced in the past 5000 years is a hybrid of wheat and rye .
2 The only really significant inroad into the dominance of English in recent years has come from Spanish in the southern states of the US .
3 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 .
4 Hiatal hernia was the only statistically significant predictor of oesophageal mucosal status .
5 The single most significant feature in this landscape was the Labour Party .
6 Concentration on seatbelt usage — the single most significant contributor to injury reduction in car accidents — delayed the arrival of the airbag in Europe .
7 It 's probably the single most significant invention of the industrial age , in terms of its effect on our everyday lives .
8 In short , the single most significant factor in the unemployed status of those who had previously worked had been their use of heroin .
9 But heating and housing technology were not brought to bear on this , the single most significant change in the way we live .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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