Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [conj] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sex of the character is usually the most prominent and significant variable in characterization . |
| 2 | The period between 1939 to 1949 has been called the most productive and significant period in Canadian letters to date , which matches the ‘ 10 Lost Years ’ of the post-Depression period exactly . |
| 3 | But the most significant point to make is that to attempt to force the fabliaux to fit some standard rhetorical classification is not just ( perhaps ) irrelevant , but , more seriously , distracting in respect of the frequently clever and significant exploitation of language in these texts . |
| 4 | To the old long-stay patients re-established in community settings and the younger chronic patients who may never have become institutionalized should be added the relatively small but significant number of mentally abnormal offenders whose discharge from special hospitals gave rise to the 1975 Report of the committee on mentally abnormal offenders ( Cmnd. 6244 ) , together with the growing number of elderly people with mental health problems , including dementia ( Health Advisory Service , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | It will be much richer , of course , since Tony Benn has played a more central and significant role in the national politics of his day . |
| 6 | In Shark Bay , on the northwest coast of tropical Australia , they have developed in a particularly spectacular and significant form . |
| 7 | Braque , on the other hand , although he was only six months younger than Picasso , was slower in his development and had not yet established himself as a particularly original or significant painter ; indeed , Braque subsequently came to feel that the paintings he executed in Antwerp during the summer of 1906 were his first creative works . |
| 8 | There was also a relatively minor but significant correlation between the rate of known opioid use and townships ' population size . |
| 9 | Reaching this third week is a very important and significant achievement . |