Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the US team were hoping to hear that martial law may soon be lifted , they may have been forestalled by a tiny but significant demonstration on the streets of Beijing . |
| 6 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 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 | Yes I think that would apply where there was a a major or significant loss of employment land . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | At a concentration of 5×10 - 5 M , N-monomethyl-L-arginine produced a partial but significant inhibition of the nerve mediated relaxations , reducing them to 72.4% ( 3.5% ) of their original size ( n=22 ) ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 18 | The SCC is particularly concerned with campaigning : we aim to promote cycling as a partial but significant solution to the problems of urban congestion and pollution , because cycling is not only pollution-free but also flexible , cheap and above all , healthy . |
| 19 | The SCC is particularly concerned with campaigning : we aim to promote cycling as a partial but significant solution to the problems of urban congestion and pollution , because cycling is not only pollution-free but also flexible , cheap and above all , healthy . |
| 20 | The SCC is particularly concerned with campaigning : we aim to promote cycling as a partial but significant solution to the problems of urban congestion and pollution , because cycling is not only pollution-free but also flexible , cheap and above all , healthy . |
| 21 | Within the broad overall picture , built up from the 129 Prison Department establishments in England and Wales , Maidstone occupies a distinctive and significant place . |
| 22 | There is a short but significant list of Aegean settlements which fulfil the requirements . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This had also triggered an assertive economic nationalism amongst a small but significant sector of the Latin American elites . |
| 25 | In 1980 , local elections were to be held , implementing the ‘ Gengshen Reforms ’ , which allowed for a small but significant element of democratisation at the local level . |
| 26 | There was nothing mysterious about the process by which a small but significant segment of the intelligentsia came to espouse the cause of a class to which they did not belong . |
| 27 | Only in rats subjected to stress did bFGF ( given subcutaneously in a large dose ) cause a small but significant attenuation of the mucosal lesions and this was accompanied by increased gastric blood flow suggesting that the maintenance of gastric circulation in stressed rats could explain this protection . |
| 28 | Within a decade of their departure from Lewis , with high hopes of prosperity in the New World a small but significant proportion of the emigrants returned . |
| 29 | So far , such encouragement has seen a small but significant increase in the numbers of acrylic courts being laid . |
| 30 | Contrary to expectations , fundholders ' NHS referral rates showed a small but significant increase from the first phase to the second phase of the study ( table III ) . |