Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a significant [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , the University made a significant investment to improve the quality and appearance of the Prospectus , which is the most important aid in the recruitment of the brightest and best-motivated undergraduate students . |
| 2 | The case produced a significant impact at the time , and has been restrictively construed . |
| 3 | The result was that the ’ collocational overlap ’ technique made a significant contribution toward the identification of the correct words from the alternative candidates . |
| 4 | They never in any case became a significant part of the newly emerging pattern , whereas the other four did . |
| 5 | Teacher assessment constitutes a significant part of the assessment in all but one of the 20 principal GCSE subjects . |
| 6 | On the basis of this feedback , intensive subject assessment represents a significant step forward for SCOTVEC and , as a result of the experience , SCOTVEC is continuing to supplement its sampling visits with a programme of intensive subject assessment in session 1990/91 . |
| 7 | The aim of the research is to help those with responsibilities for educational provision to meet a significant challenge of the 1990s , namely : to establish systematic and credible systems for assessing the quality of schooling and thereby to improve the learning opportunities of all young people . |
| 8 | We conclude that acute cigarette smoking causes a significant fall in gastric secretion ( Vg ) , and suggest that this results in raised gastrin values that have a tropic effect on the parietal cell , thereby accounting for the raised secretory capacity of chronic smokers . |
| 9 | Little evidence , sceptics argue , has been adduced to support the claim that such teaching has a significant impact in reducing prejudice . |
| 10 | The methodology represents a significant change in the development of computing systems away from the technology , in particular , hardware and software ( including programming techniques and algorithms ) , and towards data and the way it is structured . |
| 11 | The boundary between the mantle and crust represents a significant change in rock density but there may also be differences in chemical composition . |
| 12 | The Banking dictionary made a significant contribution ( to 95% level ) to the recognition of Estate Agents ' text . |
| 13 | We have already reported that lipid peroxidation plays a significant part in the pathogenesis of gastric mucosal lesions induced by water immersion restraint stress , burn shock , and ischemia-reperfusion . |
| 14 | The earliest study reported a significant association of a particular RFLP haplotype of the COL1A2 locus and alcoholic cirrhosis . |
| 15 | Many other people have rights , including those concerned with fishing , and in my native Scotland the value of fishing has a significant part to play in the local economy , particulary in remote areas . |
| 16 | One study found a significant increase in childhood leukaemias in the corridors of land underneath the country 's network of power lines . |
| 17 | After the First World War the term ‘ regional planning ’ was used extensively , the new practice representing a significant extension to planning practice . |
| 18 | Have anxiety , fear , guilt , anger , personal embarrassment or ridicule played a significant part in what you have just been analysing ? |
| 19 | During the year our turnover received a significant boost from the enlargement of the agriculture operation and finished with a massive £612 million for the year . |
| 20 | CCG 's Training Department played a significant role in the mobilisation as CCG 's Bob Rae explained , ‘ Bookkeeping and Induction sessions were run in schools in Ryedale , Scarborough and the surrounding areas . |
| 21 | His side played a significant part in making this a good match . |
| 22 | More recently work from the Boiron Laboratories in Lyon has suggested that a 7C potency of Arsenicum album caused a significant excretion of arsenic by arsenic-poisoned rats as compared with a 7C potency of water used as a control , thus confirming the earlier observations with the guinea-pigs . |
| 23 | In this study on biopsy samples from colonic mucosa of patients with no colonic disorders , the comparison between two methods of assessing cell proliferation showed a significant correlation ( r s =0.6 , p<0.05 ) . |
| 24 | This result shows a significant improvement in pointing after adaptation . |
| 25 | The city organises the shows independently , and invites no other major institution to play a significant part . |
| 26 | An emphasis on the racial component in health maintenance marked a significant development within contemporary medical knowledge . |
| 27 | This indicates that lipid peroxidation lays a significant part in the pathogenesis of the gastric mucosal lesions induced by indomethacin , as well as gastric injuries produced by burn shock , water immersion restraint stress , and ischaemia-reperfusion . |
| 28 | The answer which is usually proffered is a variant of the ‘ snapshot ’ argument : the stock of capital is so large in comparison with variations in the relevant flows that it would take a timespan considerably longer than the Keynesian short run for variations in the rate of net investment to have a significant impact on the size of the stock of capital . |
| 29 | After World War II , the motor car had a significant impact on the travelling public , and lorries and buses took a considerable amount of business from the railway , so it was inevitable that the railway management , casting a critical eye over branch line expenditure , however scenic , considered most of these rural lines as financially unviable . |
| 30 | In studies of this kind there was evidence of a shift in the attitude to physical environment as environmental perception had a significant influence on the research undertaken by on physical geographers . |