Example sentences of "it is [adv] significant [that] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is however significant that blood relationship and peculiarities of speech , the criteria noted in the last paragraph , were both mentioned . |
| 2 | It is probably significant that manufacturing employment fell at a slower rate in the North than in the South from 1984 to 1987 , and was estimated to have increased from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 3 | This seems to be precisely what happens ( Walkerdine , 1982 ; Edwards and Mercer , 1986 ) , and it is undoubtedly significant that classroom studies have exposed children 's unwillingness to ask questions ( Hargie , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | It is perhaps significant that stretching of the vortex tubes in Fig. 21.11 could be produced by the structure in Fig. 21.10 as well as by the mean flow , but this is a matter requiring further investigation . |
| 5 | However , it is perhaps significant that environmentalism received little attention as long as it was only the poor and the powerless who suffered from the detritus of industrial society . |
| 6 | It has been remarked that Spondylus shells resemble ivory and it is perhaps significant that ivory pegs with expanded terminals , possibly used for securing garments , were found together with shell ornaments in the Rhenish Flomborn cemetery . |