Example sentences of "have a [adv] significant [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This has a very significant influence on costs .
2 Statements such as , ‘ I did n't see it previously ’ ; ‘ I 've just noticed something new ’ ; I can see all sorts of things of interest which I had n't seen before' ; ‘ I was n't interested in that before … suddenly it has a very significant part to play ’ ; ‘ the painting is actually changing for me ’ ; ‘ I 'm just discovering it ’ ; ‘ I 've started now to appreciate … ‘ , abounded .
3 Syria has a very significant role now to play and we ought not to be seeking ways of annoying them .
4 This project aims to discover whether similar results can be established for an economy in which money has a more significant function .
5 At another level , however , this inelasticity feature is unattractive , because on a merit good , and some ‘ externality ’ arguments , the objective of government policy should be to reduce consumption , and owing to the price inelasticity tax rises will not have a very significant impact on the level of consumption .
6 However , when the analysis was extended from consideration of only a single variable relationship to a multiple regression model which controlled for other possible influences on strikes , such as unemployment , profits and real wages , it was then found that bargaining structures did not have a statistically significant influence.l'
7 But for industry , the difficulties and costs of physical experimentation are the two factors which are having a particularly significant impact on product development .
8 Similarly on the syntactic level , individual features are likely to have a less significant effect than features in combination .
9 When he set up Channel 4 , he was given a mandate to have a very significant chunk as education , which was n't his background .
10 Conversely , construction and financial services were expected to have a more significant role .
11 Certainly it had a more significant effect on English politics than any purely political event in my lifetime .
12 The car-PLA2 values had a highly significant correlation with the syn-PLA2 values in the regerssion analysis ( r=0.939 , p=0.001 ) , whereas there was no correlation with pan-PLA2 or CRP or between PLA2 and CRP ( Table ) .
13 Mean attitude scale scores for the different sub-groups of teachers , derived from the factor analyses for each phase , were then used to test whether any of the institutional and demographic matters listed above had a statistically significant effect on these attitudes .
14 We have a rather significant research effort .
15 Indeed , there is a powerful school of thought within the profession of financial analysis that earnings per share indeed the figure for earnings itself — is an analytical tool , and , therefore , that analysts have a very significant contribution to make in the calculations involved .
16 And that 's extremely difficult to do something about the equity target , since National policy , the distribution of income , housing policy , all the things that we tackle on this committee and committees of the council have a very significant effect on the health of the people who live in the city , and it 's not in our control .
17 However , his average price still increases by 18% in 1991 , while we have a very significant downturn for Italians , while the decreases are of the order of 10% , 18% and 35% for the Flemish , French and Italian drawings respectively .
18 ‘ We have a very significant audience in Northern Ireland , although no figures have been produced , ’ says Brian Pierce , manager , RTE radio sales .
19 If men and women are faithful to do what God has called them to do and to serve where God has called them to serve , they have a genuinely significant ministry .
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