Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and significant [noun sg] " 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 | Other subjects included a summary of the current business position , and an in depth discussion on the latest and significant initiative by Stoddard Templeton to introduce fabrics into the market place alongside carpets . |
| 3 | Studies by Atkinson and Kincaid in Britain , Harrington in the USA , and official government studies in both countries , reveal a persistent and significant section of the population living in poverty-stricken circumstances at any one time , to say nothing of the many others , who , at certain crucial periods of their life ( e.g. the old , families with young children ) , may temporarily lapse into poverty . |
| 4 | Although this programme can not do more than offer an introduction to the mastery of the skills needed by instructors , it is nevertheless of considerable importance in that it is a measured and significant attempt to provide the sort of training upon which the success of YOP and , even more important its successor , the Youth Training Scheme , will depend . |
| 5 | Although it would be wrong to see the injustices suffered by a Viscountess as equivalent to those of the poor , Irwin 's willingness to examine questions of gender and class together make ‘ An Epistle to Mr. Pope ’ a striking and significant composition . |
| 6 | If this is a primitive point of reference for social criticism , it nonetheless equipped Leapor to make a brave and significant statement on rural life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Internal audit is a large and significant part of the financial control of many organizations . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Vocational training has a large and significant effect on offer arrival rates , ceteris paribus , but other educational qualifications or a completed apprenticeship matter only insignificantly . |
| 13 | Total losses on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ — which is the largest insurance loss ever recorded — are now estimated at $65m and but for this factor we would have reported a welcome and significant return to profitability in 1992 . |
| 14 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 15 | In every way , then , the party organization emerged from the war years in reasonably good shape ; it had played its part in the war and its local and national structures were attenuated but intact ( a major and significant contrast with the effect of war on the Liberals ) . |
| 16 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Besides being a tower of strength in education , ’ said Burrow , ‘ she has also made a systematic and significant contribution to our membership recruitment drives in collating more than 700 names and addresses of potential members from strategically important organisations . ’ |
| 19 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 20 | ‘ The UK housing market looks set for a sustained and significant recovery in 1993 , ’ says the report . |
| 21 | ‘ The UK housing market looks set for a sustained and significant recovery in 1993 , ’ says the report . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In terms of a laterality score there was a positive and significant correlation between the scores for spouses and between scores for mothers arid their children . |
| 24 | We will suggest that these functions are still performed to an impressive and significant degree . |
| 25 | Such monumental works that are extant in all parts of the empire are without decoration of any kind , but consist simply of arch after arch for miles across the landscape , presenting an impressive and significant spectacle of considerable aesthetic quality , as important in the study of Roman architecture as , for example , the Colosseum . |
| 26 | During the talks the USA acknowledged the environmental concerns of South Pacific countries but did not respond to Forum calls for an immediate and significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions . |