Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] significant " in BNC.
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| 1 | An essential skill of the technical manager is his ability to recognize technically or commercially significant results . |
| 2 | Conventionally , those patterns whose left-hand or most significant bit position contains a zero represent positive values , and those where it contains a one represent negative values . |
| 3 | These two values are represented in fixed-point binary format , the exponent as an integer and the fraction with the binary point to the left of its left-hand or most significant bit ( although , as we shall see , the latter convention is not invariable ) . |
| 4 | It is entirely wrong to assume that older women , who have been involved in employment during their lives , should experience retirement as any more or less significant than it is for older men . |
| 5 | Depending upon the type of society concerned , more or less significant political changes may result from the introduction of a new technology ; from trade or warfare ; from a palace coup , a change of dynasty , the accession of a competent or incompetent monarch , or the emergence of an exceptionally talented political leader , from cultural and intellectual movements , from the rise and fall of particular social groups , among them classes , religious and cultural groups , and elites which represent distinct social interests . |
| 6 | Where statistically significant differences do not exist is between high-achieving men and high-achieving women . |
| 7 | Our most important finding was that there was no statistically or clinically significant difference in the acceptability of serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic and related antidepressants in patients with major depression . |
| 8 | It is , however , questionable whether Manne 's ‘ negative ’ insider dealing conception ( that is , not selling on the basis of inside information ) is a dominant or even significant means of insider dealing . |
| 9 | The evidence on the extent to which actual index futures prices depart from the values predicted by the no-arbitrage condition generally supports the view that economically significant departures do exist . |
| 10 | Although less significant it still provides about 15 per cent of funds . |
| 11 | The correlation between the area of reticulin collapse , however , and hepatic venous pressure gradient , although statistically significant , was poor . |
| 12 | When all students regardless of age were examined a correlation was found between A-level grades and degree results which although statistically significant was always weak . |
| 13 | This was in any case already known from the fact that statistically significant ear differences in reaction time or accuracy of report have been observed even with monaural stimulus presentation ( for a bibliography see Henry , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | Within the English tradition of radical , ‘ Marx-influenced ’ , sociology the tendency has been to concede that social mobility is in principle important ( large-scale mobility would make a difference to one 's analysis ) , but to deny that really significant social mobility has taken place . |
| 15 | These studies support our findings that clinically significant amyloid deposits in the muscularis propria are more likely in AL amyloidosis than in AA . |
| 16 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 17 | The first , and most significant , was the re-imposition of the state of emergency in 1986 . |
| 18 | The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic . |
| 19 | The largest and most significant effect of the glitch is seen to be the persistent change in slowdown rate , amounting to 0.04% . |
| 20 | It includes some of the most controversial and most significant for social services . |
| 21 | Without doubt the rarest and most significant item offered yesterday was the ‘ Ashburton Cabinet ’ , an ormolu-mounted ivory-inlaid kingwood and parquetry bureau-cabinet by the Piedmontese sculptor and cabinet-maker Pietro Piffetti of around 1770 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 19 , June 1992 , p.18 ) . |
| 22 | In the end there is nothing external to the broadest and most significant institutions . |
| 23 | The beard was a kind of super beard , a beard to end all beards , a great reprise on some of the world 's finest and most significant beards . |
| 24 | The exhibition , curated by Joan Solomon and Sue Isherwood , highlights the first and most significant relationship in most women 's lives ( until 22 Mar ) . |
| 25 | The worst and most significant job loss , in the overall period 1981 to 1987 , was met in Cleveland ( 32.9 per cent ; see Chapter 10 ) , and this area demonstrates one of the severest proportionate ‘ differential shifts ’ among those mapped at Figure 5.4B , along with Greater London and Merseyside . |
| 26 | Sanskrit is the language of classical India , one of the oldest and most significant of the civilisations of the world . |
| 27 | Later , it was argued that the coming of cultivation meant another , although admittedly much less traumatic change , and resulted in weaning becoming established as a major and most significant developmental stage . |
| 28 | Performance related pay for chief officers to be determined by the police authority and most significant of all , fixed term contracts for chief officers . |
| 29 | All these and many more will be considered for awards in the following categories : Most impressive contribution by a major organization in the South East , most interesting contribution by a local organization in the South East , and most significant presentation in nineteen eighty two We have two further categories : the most imaginative idea developed in nineteen eighty two and the most promising project for nineteen eighty three . |
| 30 | On the other hand , there are different levels and degrees of both conformity and dissent , and in a context where prevailing versions of good practice tended to emphasize the visual and organizational , a strategic surface conformity allowed the more subtle and perhaps significant aspects of practice to be retained and underlying attitudes and assumptions to persist . |