Example sentences of "it is [adv] significant [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is equally significant that the analysis of complex , multiple-locus systems ( polygenes ) is well advanced . |
| 2 | Although it is doubtless significant that the two texts on the Soviet Union written by Nizan , " Le Tombeau de Timour " and " Sindobod Tocikiston " , are centred on man 's struggle for socialist construction against the forces of nature in Central Asia , far removed from the political intrigue of Moscow , their significance is to be located in a heightened awareness of metaphysical despair rather than in any fundamental disenchantment with the social and political advances of the Soviet experiment itself . |
| 3 | It is surely significant that the enchanting country houses designed by Edwin Lutyens at this period should often be described as ‘ dream houses ’ . |
| 4 | It is also significant that the DoE study did not consider the costs of several ‘ uncostable ’ factors such as the increased corrosion and organic contamination which denitrification can cause but which would not be incurred by preventative methods . |
| 5 | It is also significant that the small improvements in productivity are due not to better production methods , but to increases in animal populations and the amount of land under cultivation . |
| 6 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 7 | It is also significant that the National Curriculum Council has established a cross-curricular Working Party focussing on the following themes : — Economic Awareness , — Careers , — Personal and Social Education , — Health Education . |
| 8 | It is also significant that the oddness of 9a can be reduced by modifying table semantically : The table with the electronic eye saw Arthur ( we know that it is the meaning of the modifying phrase which is important because the reduction in oddness depends on the open set items the phrase contains — compare The table with the melamine top saw Arthur ) ; no similar modification of bake in 11a , or table in 12a , can reduce the degree of deviance of these sentences . |
| 9 | It is also significant that the appearance of blockages from both directions at 5'-GC ( 37 of UV5 ) observed for 1 is missing ( 102 of N25 ) in the tethered complexes . |
| 10 | From our knowledge of Nietzsche 's earlier thinking on that subject , we would naturally take such a title to imply a central concern with tragedy and its demise , but it is certainly significant that the word " tragedy " is not itself part of the title . |
| 11 | It is highly significant that the two texts which Sartre chooses for the most part to ignore are L's Chiens de garde and Le Cheval de Troie , the two texts where Nizan 's communist party allegiances are most clearly visible . |
| 12 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 13 | It is perhaps significant that the first reported comment by a United States court on the Convention concerned this very area . |
| 14 | It is perhaps significant that the last strike organized by the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers was in 1923 and nearly bankrupted the Union ; although , having amalgamated with the Transport and General Workers ' Union in 1982 , farm workers may now find themselves in a better bargaining position . |
| 15 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |