Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] significant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither the creation of the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , however , nor the orders to Nazimov promised to be significant milestones . |
| 2 | The outcome , whether a journal article or a book or a commercial patent , has to be significant and recognized as such . |
| 3 | The cost of using a library was considered to be significant by all . |
| 4 | On the other hand , an excess of isolated teeth is all the more unlikely to be due to sampling error , and so excess is considered to be significant and to indicate preferential destruction of mandibles and maxillae . |
| 5 | As it stands , this claim will be of no explanatory interest if the relevant descriptions of events are trivial in the light of our projects and concerns , and a persuasive conception of determinism must therefore include some method of selecting from among the multifarious possible descriptions of events those that are considered to be significant . |
| 6 | For soft X-ray attenuation is generally considered to be significant . |
| 7 | The test was used with continuity correction , and values of p<0.05 were considered to be significant . |
| 8 | Where appropriate , results are expressed as mean ( SEM ) , and statistical differences were assessed with the unpaired t test ; a value of p<0.05 was considered to be significant . |
| 9 | Statistical analysis was performed with the Mann Whitney U test and values of p<0.05 were considered to be significant . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , it seems to me that the rule requires the justices to record and to announce the facts which they judged to be significant in the making of their decision and also the salient considerations which have led them to their conclusion . |
| 11 | Only very superficially does it appear to be significant . |
| 12 | While the Carrion 's behaviour may appear to be significant — and the players will try hard to convince themselves that this is the case — this is only a spoiling attack to draw the adventurers ' attention to the Castle . |
| 13 | This was because they found that many of their animals and plants were very similar to European forms , but that they did differ in what seemed to be significant respects , such as size or colour . |
| 14 | There is , however , no firm basis for such confidence and , as will be seen to be significant in relation to notions of parliamentary sovereignty , it is by no means universally accepted that it is only the characteristics of the Parliament of England which survived these constitutional upheavals . |
| 15 | It is not the case that we can or do simply distinguish , in a completely neutral way , some major historical types of political system , even in the non-evolutionist manner that I have suggested ; for on one side , what is seen to be significant in the past is influenced by current concerns , and on the other side these concerns have , in any case , a very great practical importance and are bound to engage much of the attention of political thinkers . |
| 16 | So really if we did agree that any of those supplementary factors were going to be significant . |
| 17 | To repeat : the discussion is about investments which the group sees to be significant . |
| 18 | The interval between the onset of major depression and receipt of treatment , and the degree of pre-morbid neuroticism seem to be significant predictors of how long the illness episode lasts . |
| 19 | The system is being investigated as a good natural analogue of reactions and trace-element migration predicted to be significant in a cement-back-filled radioactive waste repository . |
| 20 | Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year . |
| 21 | On coasts of coral atolls the effects of hurricanes are shown to be significant not only to the reef morphology but also to the organisms and the total environment ( Stoddart , 1962 ) and in drainage basins in general and along river channels in particular the impact of rare floods and the time necessary for recovery has been investigated . |
| 22 | Whether or not there has been any history of violence , the association between the past and the present is bound to be significant in understanding present abuse within the family . |
| 23 | However physical replicas can only incorporate features and characteristics perceived to be significant at the time of replication and part of the justification for preserving original objects in preference to a copy is that the original can be interrogated in an open-ended way in the light of unforeseen enquiry . |
| 24 | It has been found that the intake of nutrients in the diet declines markedly in old age , and whilst it is difficult to determine to what extent this is caused by , or is the cause of , increased physical disease , the connection with elderly health is known to be significant . |
| 25 | ‘ The differences ( of opinion ) come in the superimposition of the political process , and as a result , there appears to be significant scientific disagreement when there really is not ’ . |
| 26 | Furthermore , Regan 's incompetent researchers ought not to get to first base , at least under present UK regulations , for they would have been required to state objectives , if only of an ‘ advancement of knowledge ’ , which the assessors would judge to be significant enough to outweigh any proposed harm ( under 5.4 ) to the animals at risk . |
| 27 | The absence of a caution was in most circumstances bound to be significant ( see Keen an ( 1990 ) 90 Cr.App.R. 1 ) . |
| 28 | None of the other species listed in Table 2.1 have been found to be significant accumulators of bone . |
| 29 | Similarly for Sweden , three of the four variables are found to be significant — although the results generally for that country are less satisfactory than for the other three . |
| 30 | Age at operation was found to be significant only for the adenoidectomy only group , with those who were older at operation facing a minor disadvantage ( about 2 dB ) between three and five years postoperatively . |