Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [adv] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest and most significant effect of the glitch is seen to be the persistent change in slowdown rate , amounting to 0.04% . |
| 2 | The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic . |
| 3 | The worst and most significant job loss , in the overall period 1981 to 1987 , was met in Cleveland ( 32.9 per cent ; see Chapter 10 ) , and this area demonstrates one of the severest proportionate ‘ differential shifts ’ among those mapped at Figure 5.4B , along with Greater London and Merseyside . |
| 4 | The exhibition , curated by Joan Solomon and Sue Isherwood , highlights the first and most significant relationship in most women 's lives ( until 22 Mar ) . |
| 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 | Without doubt the rarest and most significant item offered yesterday was the ‘ Ashburton Cabinet ’ , an ormolu-mounted ivory-inlaid kingwood and parquetry bureau-cabinet by the Piedmontese sculptor and cabinet-maker Pietro Piffetti of around 1770 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 19 , June 1992 , p.18 ) . |
| 7 | In this context I want to refer to a brief but highly significant passage in Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A related and equally significant problem arises from Kemp 's search for causal historical relations between science and art . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | He regressed the change in the spot price on the change in the futures price for the previous five-minute period and found a positive and highly significant relationship . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |
| 16 | However a small scattering of calibrated stations could provide an interesting and potentially significant source of scientific date on radio propagation . |