Example sentences of "assume [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere .
2 When you live alone , money assumes a greater importance than if you share your life with someone .
3 Developments in Afghanistan assumed a greater significance for Western governments than they would otherwise have had because of the place they appeared to occupy in an ‘ Arc of Crisis ’ that extended from the Middle East to South-Eastern Asia .
4 In much work that was to develop within the compass of physical geography , the chronology assumed a greater significance , it required a greater knowledge of existing and recently developed dating techniques , and it thus involved close liaison with other disciplines particularly geology , biology and archaeology amongst the broadening spectrum of the earth and environmental sciences .
5 These concepts , expressed in books and pamphlets , and directly to women , assumed a greater importance because of the professionalisation of medicine and the growing dominance of disease models as explanations for social phenomena .
6 In cases involving the assessment of fitness to be interviewed , mental state assumed a greater importance .
7 This theological argument for differentiation was to assume the greatest importance in spreading the Copernican theory .
8 Simply expressed , in a situation in which voters detach themselves from a close identification with parties then issues come to assume a greater significance in voting behaviour and electoral choice .
9 If teachers are to assume a greater role in the control of their own organisations a far wider range of knowledge and skills is required than if they are to remain ‘ in the classroom ’ — they must move from the restricted to the extended approach .
10 A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation .
11 Transport availability and costs assume a greater importance in rural areas than in urban areas .
12 One of the reasons why the purchasing power parity theorem has not worked so well over short periods is that the influence on currencies of current account flows has diminished , while capital account transactions have assumed a greater role .
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