Example sentences of "[conj] most significant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conventionally , those patterns whose left-hand or most significant bit position contains a zero represent positive values , and those where it contains a one represent negative values . |
| 2 | These two values are represented in fixed-point binary format , the exponent as an integer and the fraction with the binary point to the left of its left-hand or most significant bit ( although , as we shall see , the latter convention is not invariable ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first , and most significant , was the re-imposition of the state of emergency in 1986 . |
| 5 | The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic . |
| 6 | The largest and most significant effect of the glitch is seen to be the persistent change in slowdown rate , amounting to 0.04% . |
| 7 | It includes some of the most controversial and most significant for social services . |
| 8 | Without doubt the rarest and most significant item offered yesterday was the ‘ Ashburton Cabinet ’ , an ormolu-mounted ivory-inlaid kingwood and parquetry bureau-cabinet by the Piedmontese sculptor and cabinet-maker Pietro Piffetti of around 1770 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 19 , June 1992 , p.18 ) . |
| 9 | In the end there is nothing external to the broadest and most significant institutions . |
| 10 | The beard was a kind of super beard , a beard to end all beards , a great reprise on some of the world 's finest and most significant beards . |
| 11 | The exhibition , curated by Joan Solomon and Sue Isherwood , highlights the first and most significant relationship in most women 's lives ( until 22 Mar ) . |
| 12 | The worst and most significant job loss , in the overall period 1981 to 1987 , was met in Cleveland ( 32.9 per cent ; see Chapter 10 ) , and this area demonstrates one of the severest proportionate ‘ differential shifts ’ among those mapped at Figure 5.4B , along with Greater London and Merseyside . |
| 13 | Sanskrit is the language of classical India , one of the oldest and most significant of the civilisations of the world . |
| 14 | Later , it was argued that the coming of cultivation meant another , although admittedly much less traumatic change , and resulted in weaning becoming established as a major and most significant developmental stage . |
| 15 | Performance related pay for chief officers to be determined by the police authority and most significant of all , fixed term contracts for chief officers . |
| 16 | All these and many more will be considered for awards in the following categories : Most impressive contribution by a major organization in the South East , most interesting contribution by a local organization in the South East , and most significant presentation in nineteen eighty two We have two further categories : the most imaginative idea developed in nineteen eighty two and the most promising project for nineteen eighty three . |
| 17 | Had he stayed , there was every chance that he might have been forced eventually to join the Militia — a thing few Titfords would face with relish ; but most significant of all , perhaps — apart from his obvious inner resilience and entrepreneurial spirit — he had the singular advantage of having well-off relations to latch onto in London . |
| 18 | More important are the political demands , but most significant of all was local discontent at the action of royal officials in the shire . |