Example sentences of "it is significant that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant that whenever Gloucester took a controversial step , such as seizing the prince or sending north for reinforcements , he justified it by reference to a Woodville plot to subvert the state . |
| 2 | It is significant that whenever Gloucester took a controversial step , such as seizing the prince or sending north for reinforcements , he justified it by reference to a Woodville plot to subvert the state . |
| 3 | It is significant that neither Kermode nor Lodge have inclined towards the more radical deconstructionist road . |
| 4 | It is significant that both Antony and Pachomius avoided ordination . |
| 5 | ( 1985 : 687 ) suggest something quite similar to Jespersen — " the infinitive marker to may be viewed as related to the spatial preposition to through metaphorical connection " — and illustrate this by the series : How far this metaphorical connection extends is not specified , but it is significant that both Quirk et al. |
| 6 | A simple , single school-room with an entrance porch on the east side , it catered for the children of Shawell and the surrounding villages until after World War I. It is significant that even such a simple building as this was not immune from the stylistic preferences of contemporary architects and the steeply pitched roof-slopes of the schoolroom are ‘ stratified ’ with bands of alternating plain and fish-scale pattern tiles in true ‘ High Victorian ’ fashion . |
| 7 | The ill feeling between him and the Woodvilles apparently had its roots in the previous reign and it is significant that even those chroniclers who emphasize the Gloucester/Woodville animosity , consider that it was the Hastings/Woodville feud which was worrying Edward IV on his death bed . |
| 8 | The ill feeling between him and the Woodvilles apparently had its roots in the previous reign and it is significant that even those chroniclers who emphasize the Gloucester/Woodville animosity , consider that it was the Hastings/Woodville feud which was worrying Edward IV on his death bed . |
| 9 | But at another level it is significant that almost every new initiative in British urban policy in the last decade has involved a ‘ freeing up ’ of the labour market . |
| 10 | It is significant that currently in Sweden , where resources to support visually handicapped pupils in mainstream schools are considerable and of high level and where the integration of handicapped pupils is particularly well supported and virtually universal , there are still problems for a significant number of visually handicapped pupils in terms of social adjustment ( Svenson , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | It is significant that very few women used and abused the male body in the way that their male colleagues manipulated female flesh , indeed it is rare even to find a male nude among the work of women surrealists . |