Example sentences of "make a significant [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These simple changes will make a significant reduction in the fat content of your diet . |
| 2 | Although technology to reduce pollution could make a significant contribution to the problem , the industry showed ‘ minimal ’ commitment to innovation , research and development , it said . |
| 3 | No one will now make the mistake of thinking that industrial employment is ‘ impossible side by side with crofting ’ , but it is still possible to make the contrary mistake of thinking that agricultural improvements by themselves can make a significant contribution towards a permanent solution of the crofting problem . |
| 4 | Mental and emotional problems , which began long before the food intolerance , could make a significant contribution to the symptoms , once the gut has become sensitized and over-reactive . |
| 5 | Therefore , such systems can make a significant contribution to maintenance tradeforce flexibility and job satisfaction . |
| 6 | Gray ( 1982 ) has indicated that programmes of health education amongst older people ‘ can make a significant contribution to the promotion of a healthy life ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ It is right , I think , to look to see if the private sector can make a significant contribution . ’ |
| 8 | If these products replace those derived from fossil fuels , it will make a significant contribution to reducing the greenhouse effect . |
| 9 | Although the pilot study demonstrates that a domain-specific dictionary can make a significant contribution to the recognition of a same-domain document , it is not necessarily the case that this effect will be repeated in other domains . |
| 10 | Evidently , the general collocation dictionary derived from the LOB corpus can make a significant contribution to the recognition of domain-specific documents . |
| 11 | Removal , along with nitrites , will make a significant contribution to the control of algae in freshwater tanks too . |
| 12 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 13 | In this field as in others physical geographers are only one group of contributors to research but recent endeavours have included field measurement of soil water and relationship between condition of the environment including soil water status and plant growth , and it is suggested that the impact of atmospheric pollution on crop growth and yields in advanced industrial countries is an area of research where physical geographers could make a significant contribution . |
| 14 | The results of this very detailed , long-term study do therefore make a significant contribution to the policy question of the relevance of different treatment approaches as hospitals are replaced by alternative services . |
| 15 | As ‘ the most successful mathematics students will generally be versatile learners ’ , this , if it is true , could make a significant contribution to our understanding of the processes by which girls are gradually marginalised in mathematics . |
| 16 | Health board staff believe that they can make a significant contribution to health education in schools . |
| 17 | They can make a significant contribution to the general health and well-being of individuals and local communities . |
| 18 | We are , therefore , proposing to provide a number of new information services which the police believe will make a significant contribution to their operational effectiveness . |
| 19 | There is considerable ground for speculation about why the Opposition have adopted such a churlish attitude to proposals which are clearly well designed and will make a significant contribution to further improvement in attitudes to training . |
| 20 | This archive will make a significant contribution to a number of debates in social science which have so far lacked appropriate data . |
| 21 | All of you can make a significant contribution by using your experience from your own workplace to improve our efficiency further and help us do the job ‘ right first time ’ . |
| 22 | Closing the Park to through traffic could make a significant contribution in this direction . |
| 23 | The family and local historian can make a significant contribution here . |
| 24 | Consequently , they might make a significant contribution to the development of computer-aided instructional materials and delivery systems for machine-readable information which will be found increasingly in the commercial as well as in the academic worlds . |
| 25 | BEING THRIFTY Some of the ways in which you can be thrifty with food will be covered in the next chapter and energy management discussed in Chapter 3 , should make a significant difference to your heating bills in the winter . |
| 26 | These modifications ( which amount mostly to improvements in the quality of pots , switches and plugs ) should make a significant difference to the way your wireless system and guitar interact . |
| 27 | I believe , however , that over the past 20 years an important body of evidence has emerged which strongly suggests that schools do make a significant difference both to pupil attainment and pupil behaviour . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the rug market can be extremely volatile , and a few months either way can make a significant difference to prices . |
| 29 | And yet a small adjustment at the right place can make a significant difference . |
| 30 | Does this make a significant difference to the the hous household requirement ? |