Example sentences of "been significant [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardly surprising that Gamble concludes that " there is only limited evidence that there have been significant discontinuities in economic policy-making caused by the adversary positions adopted by the parties " . |
| 2 | Her work will also explore whether there have been significant differences between the involvement of women in Scottish party politics and that of the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 3 | In addition there have been significant decreases in fertility over the same period . |
| 4 | For the North American white population aged 65 + there have been significant decreases in mortality from stroke and ischaemic heart disease . |
| 5 | However , there have been significant developments to strengthen the accountability of administrative agencies to society 's representatives , some more revolutionary than others . |
| 6 | We must study the gap closely and we must realise that , in many of the homes that have come on to the market , on which there has been significant capital outlay by people moving into the private sector , the costs have escalated because of the massive increase in interest rates . |
| 7 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 8 | Alongside the clinical concerns there has been significant progress in our understanding of the molecular genetics . |
| 9 | They do represent , however , only a part of the record of the government and in some other areas , notably education and central-local government relations , there have been significant changes . |
| 10 | But there have been significant changes in the nature of stealing since the Second World War . |
| 11 | There have also been significant changes in broadcasting . |
| 12 | Subsequent analysis showed that in all cases there had been significant changes in the proportions with high dependency over the decade between the censuses after age and sex standardisation ( χ 2 =18.0 , df=1 , p<0.0001 ) , and these changes were significantly different between types of care ( χ 2 =61.2 , df=6 , p<0.0001 ) ( table V ) . |
| 13 | By this time there had been significant changes from the 1981–85 baseline in casualty distribution by age and road user type both locally and nationally . |
| 14 | There have been significant changes in the UK economy over the last twenty years , with a steady growth of the service sector at the expense of industry . |
| 15 | There have been significant changes in Brit , British society over the past ten years . |
| 16 | The issues of social class and racism , as I have argued , have been significant casualties of the discursive formations and apparatuses of knowledge and power which defined the emergence of the black presence as an object of public discussion and policy . |
| 17 | although in recent years there have been significant improvements in the provision of research and library facilities for M.P.s these still lag fir behind those available to their counterparts abroad . |
| 18 | There has also been significant criticism of companies that have entered into transactions that were unsuitable for their needs and that increased their financial risk . |
| 19 | Although an official inquiry had found in October 1988 that there were no grounds to conclude that the DTI 's handling of the affair had caused the investors ' losses , in his report the Ombudsman had identified five areas in which there had been significant maladministration by the DTI of the Barlow Clowes affair . |
| 20 | The requirements for audit of the accounts of nationalized industries are typically found in the Act of nationalization or , if there has been significant reorganization of the industry since then , in the reorganizing Act . |
| 21 | Such population growth as there has been since then comes from a natural internally generated increase and there has been significant out-migration . |
| 22 | Nurses run the groups and there have been significant results . |
| 23 | So you would agree that there have been significant hiccups this year ? |
| 24 | There have been significant advances in management techniques in industry , and over the past five years CAC has been actively developing ways of transferring TQM education into new working behaviour and attitudes . |
| 25 | In certain fields , such as voting theory , there have been significant advances , but the broader questions have tended to be left on one side . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , too , there have been significant statements : the Kenya Government Sessional Paper ‘ African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya ’ ( 1965 ) , ’ Seretse Khama 's ‘ Education for a Nation ’ ( 1969 ) , a speech which deserves to be better known than it is , and the statement of the Imbokodvo National Movement in Swaziland ( 1972 ) . |
| 27 | Most of the growth has been in issuance of eurobonds , but there has also been significant growth in issuance of foreign bonds , largely in Swiss francs . |
| 28 | Between 1972 and 1985 there had been significant energy savings in OECD countries . |
| 29 | Reference has earlier been made to the now extensive literature on the ‘ structured dependence ’ of the elderly , to which , in this country , Townsend ( 1981 ) and Walker ( 1981 ) have been significant contributors . |
| 30 | There has been significant restructuring of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |