Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] significant [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes clear from the expressions used by Lord Wright speaking for the Privy Council to describe the duty and its breach , the important and significant date in relation thereto was not the date of manufacture but when the damage occurred : see also Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , 1960 S.C . ( H.L. ) 92 . |
| 2 | We are talking about a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland , which has taken the Tories from the high point of being the majority party in Scotland in the mid-1950s to the point today when they are on the edge of extinction as a serious and significant force in Scotland . |
| 3 | There is a consistent and significant rise in the LTB 4 from 0.21 ( median , range 0.20 to 0.64 ) before radiotherapy to 1.14 ( 0.20 to 4.0 ) after radiotherapy ( median rise 0.89 ng.ml - 1 , p=0.012 ) . |
| 4 | If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ? |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 | So far , such encouragement has seen a small but significant increase in the numbers of acrylic courts being laid . |
| 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 | There was a small but significant increase in phosphatidylethanolamine in duodenal ulcer patients compared with controls , whereas the lipid component was consistently and significantly lower in chronic atrophic gastritis patients . |
| 10 | Pretreatment with bFGF alone ( 100 µg/kg/hour ) resulted in a small but significant reduction in the number and area of stress lesions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As I understand it , Mr Maxwell 's company has approached the Housing Committee and said we are prepared to let these houses be used for homeless families , so it 's a small but significant step in the right direction . |
| 13 | In this study we have shown that long term ( 18 months ) ingestion of 133 g/kg dietary fibre resulted in a modest but significant increase in cellular proliferation in the crypts of the proximal colon but not the distal colon of the rat compared with an intake of 17 g/kg dietary fibre . |
| 14 | There was a modest but significant decrease in serum albumin concentration in the terra fullonica group ( Table III ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The UK housing market looks set for a sustained and significant recovery in 1993 , ’ says the report . |
| 16 | ‘ The UK housing market looks set for a sustained and significant recovery in 1993 , ’ says the report . |
| 17 | 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 . |