Example sentences of "most significant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , this is the most significant aspect of the role of religion in the divisions and conflicts in Ireland and goes to the heart of the matter . |
| 2 | Perhaps most significant of all is the launch of the National Schools Coaching Programme . |
| 3 | Sectors are of course the most significant creation of the 1980s . |
| 4 | The most significant aspect of the New Historicism , political questions apart , is that it represents a move away from the contextless , intensive concentration on particular texts equally characteristic of the New Criticism , classical structuralism , and deconstruction . |
| 5 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 6 | The hovering presence of Ford and General Motors remained the most significant influence . |
| 7 | Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport . |
| 8 | Few appointments made by the Civil Service Commission in recent years will be so crucial , not just to the efficient running of the welfare state , but to the progress of the most significant Civil Service reform this century . |
| 9 | HUGH BISHOP was one of the most significant Anglicans of his generation . |
| 10 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 11 | Ford management chalked up its most significant coup over working practices in 1985 when 500 job titles were reduced to 58 . |
| 12 | Israeli military experts said the advanced version of the MiG-23 , from the arsenal of Israel 's most significant frontline enemy , would provide valuable data . |
| 13 | The hope that a new Church of the poor has given to the impoverished masses of this region is the most significant political development in the region in recent decades . |
| 14 | ERIC BALL will be remembered as perhaps the most significant contributor to the repertoire of the brass band . |
| 15 | One of the most significant air raids of the entire war was against Berlin . |
| 16 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 17 | The most significant of the Maori films in its care are those made by James McDonald during expeditions to various parts of the country in the 1920s . |
| 18 | And , of the instinctual components necessarily repressed and sublimated in the service of culture , the coprophilic is one of the most significant , says Freud : ‘ the excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual ; the position of the genitals — inter urinas et faeces — remains the decisive and unchangeable factor ’ ( vii . |
| 19 | Neither : let us say rather that what is most significant about such passages is the way so much is fantasized from the position of the woman ( including anal ecstasy and , elsewhere , Lawrence 's almost as notorious worship of the phallus ) , and in a voice which is at once blindingly heterosexist and desperately homoerotic . |
| 20 | We have seen already how the most significant senses of ‘ perversion , in the early period do not define a sexual pathology in the modern sense . |
| 21 | Within masculine sexuality the most significant other is the male — but it is a significance which presupposes , and is rehearsed in relation to , the female . |
| 22 | That scenario can be distinguished from another which may nevertheless overlap and converge with it : the necessary identifications of male bonding — ‘ I desire to be like you ’ — produce an intensity of admiration some of which just can not help but transform into deviant desire for , rather than just honourable imitation of , ‘ man 's ’ most significant other ( i.e. man ) . |
| 23 | The most significant change from the Green Paper was that SERPS would not be abolished but scaled down ; the proportion of earnings on which the pension would be based was reduced from 25 to 20 per cent . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There are , of course , differences and I 've often wondered what is the most significant difference . |
| 26 | The most significant part of Grundrisse for our subject is that part which has been published separately in English under the title Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations together with a very valuable introduction by the historian E. Hobsbawm . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most significant fact about Engels 's book is that the word ‘ origin ’ is in the singular . |
| 28 | But the chances of Paris opening the decade with a momentous show were always dashed when the Germans held back the three most significant new cars still due this year — the new Audi 100 and BMW 3-series in a matter of weeks and the Mercedes S-Class by months . |
| 29 | I think the Dino Berlinetta Speciale , together with the Cisitalia my father created in 1947 , are the Pininfarina cars that represented the most significant milestones in car design . ’ |
| 30 | However , the most significant obstacles to this plan were the deep trusses of heavy timbers which spanned the roof space at two locations to brace purlins supporting the rafters of each roof-slope ( Fig 49 ) . |