Example sentences of "[be] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both National Westminster and Barclays said earlier this year that there would be significant manpower reductions when their annual results were published . |
| 2 | In any event , there is likely to be significant variation in views as to how far one should condemn or condone this liberationist violence in the North . |
| 3 | The court will look at the words of the expert clause which , if unambiguous , may be significant evidence of the intentions of the parties about the procedure that eventuated . |
| 4 | The fuel which will make the largest contribution to energy demand growth will be coal though there will be significant growth in both gas and nuclear power consumption . |
| 5 | Well er that 's outside my hands but I think we should say that there should be significant growth next year as the new er as the third tranche of the community care special transitional comes in but of course there are more responsibilities . |
| 6 | In all phases of the education system , community language sessions have to be made enjoyable : such language learning is a process which has a real capacity to engage the learners even where there may not be significant material rewards . |
| 7 | On completion of the design , the accuracy of the forecast cost increases with receipt of tenders but there will still be significant inaccuracy reflecting the likelihood of unforseen events occurring , such as differing ground conditions and the introduction of variations . |
| 8 | He appeared to give carte blanche to investors , predicting that by spring there would be significant business between Britain and Poland . |
| 9 | In due course there may be significant business opportunities in these countries , but the immediate need is for educational help . |
| 10 | Fleischmann discussed radiation with them , aware that if fusion was indeed happening in the cell there could be significant health risks although he did seem to be feeling all right . |
| 11 | There may be significant entry barriers to the upper echelons of the industry , resulting from intertemporal dependencies on the demand and cost side , and from strategic competition , both of which create sunk costs . |
| 12 | It is likely that there would be significant opposition to the idea that local taxes should bear the burden of redeeming the old debt as well as building up new capital . |
| 13 | Over the last twenty years or so the regulating authorities of several States have recognised that there can be significant value in recording , and preferably investigating , the cause of near accidents . |
| 14 | The proportion of students decreased and the proportion who cited ill health increased with age , and there were significant sex differences in the reasons given for unemployment — more women than men were not in paid employment because of either ill health or homemaking ( table III ) . |
| 15 | There were significant gold showings in three of ten targets investigated . |
| 16 | Certainly government influence had a powerful impact , and could normally secure the return of favoured candidates in constituencies where there were significant government installations ( such as the postal service at Harwich , or the dockyards at Plymouth , Portsmouth and the Cinque Ports ) . |
| 17 | There were significant age effects in both tasks on these items , and many of the children in the two younger age groups failed to distinguish between deductive and empirical items and treated them all as if they were empirical items . |
| 18 | Within these overall figures there were significant phase differences . |
| 19 | Erm now it may be that on a particular site erm conditions could be laid down to ensure and secure that there were significant employment benefits accruing from the development of that site . |
| 20 | Yet there is significant concern for the quality and reliability of the output of this examination system . |
| 21 | Er it 's now in this latest manual that 's just been published , is saying twenty five percent and clearly er the road achieves that so there is significant benefit as a result er in in that measure of of noise . |
| 22 | Er whether it 's er slight moderate or substantial er i is er I say is irrelevant but there certainly is significant benefit as a result of er of thirty percent reduction . |
| 23 | That is , the critics assert that there is significant inequality between men and women , and that for a woman to be married to a man does not mean that she gains all the privileges that he has access to . |
| 24 | Indeed , there is significant overlap in these online applications with videoconference and it is artificial to try to separate them completely . |
| 25 | From this community they have spread out and have now become a part of LE for adolescents and children of all races , though perhaps ( no research has been done to my knowledge ) only in areas where there is significant contact between the black and white communities . |
| 26 | Little was known , however , of whether ESRC support was more important in some areas than others or whether , in areas where there is significant support from other sources , ESRC 's support for basic or strategic research ( as applied to applied ) might nevertheless be critical . |
| 27 | As for the Essenes ' supposed non-violence , there is significant evidence to disprove it . |
| 28 | Neumann tells us that ‘ the French minuet … by mid-century … seems to have slowed considerably ’ and that ‘ we can find scant references to fast minuets ’ , but here is significant evidence that minuets both slow and fast were played in mid-18th-century England . |
| 29 | Unless there is significant doubt as to whether it can be collected , interest from advances should be brought into the p&l account as it accrues . |
| 30 | Firstly erm there is significant traffic and environmental problems er being experienced along the A fifty nine and the A sixty one routes in Harrogate and Knaresborough . |