Example sentences of "it [is] strike [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that although these are er fairly different relatives in terms of bacteria it 's striking that the ETEC organism has been able to acquire in some way almost exactly the same gene that 's present in choleri . |
| 2 | It is striking that Lewis did not want it known in College that he wrote ‘ pomes ’ , but only natural that he should have looked outside Magdalen for soulmates within his own Faculty . |
| 3 | The poll is not analysed , but it is striking that countries where pollution from cars has become a major problem have the highest percentages of people who believe that the state of the environment requires urgent action : 85 per cent in Italy ( at the top of the list ) , where Milan , one of the world 's smoggiest cities , now has car-free days and the capital Rome also suffers severely from vehicle congestion and pollution ; 84 per cent in Greece , where restrictions on cars in Athens are imposed to save the citizens ' lungs and their ancient monuments ; 80 per cent in the most vehicle emission-conscious country in Europe , West Germany , whose dead trees have become the symbol of pollution . |
| 4 | It is striking that it does not mention a battle . |
| 5 | It is striking that while Leapor writes amusingly , sometimes angrily , of intellectual constraints , she rarely complains of the physical rigours of domestic service . |
| 6 | However , it is striking that discussions of the state , of relations of production , and patterns of surplus extraction are almost completely absent . |
| 7 | It is striking that at a time when just about every other human value has been called in question , the value of life is still universally accepted as an absolute . |
| 8 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 9 | And it is striking that this week 's pressure on the peseta did not reflect a fundamental misalignment of the currency : on most estimates , the Spanish currency was not at all over-valued . |
| 10 | There are two crystallographically independent copies of the sCD2 molecule in the crystal and it is striking that this association occurs , in similar forms , for pairs of both copy 1 and copy 2 molecules ( the two versions are compared in Fig.5 a ) . |
| 11 | In the passage just cited for example it is striking that Cixous includes the Hegelian dialectic in the forms of political oppression which she describes . |
| 12 | It is striking that there was this shift from principle to aesthetic response as the war progressed . |
| 13 | The duchy resources were still used on behalf of the royal retinue and it is striking that most of the best offices and farms went to the king 's household . |
| 14 | With so little at Gloucester 's disposal , it is striking that most of his grants went to former servants of his brother . |
| 15 | The difficulty in finding such variables is in itself a measure of how internally divergent BV actually is , and it is striking that the variables that show the sharpest patterns of social variation are subsets within the larger sets . |
| 16 | Once again , it is striking that these transformations , which include the development of many of the forms of marketing , design and distribution characteristic of mass production , occurred before the rise of machinery in this industry . |
| 17 | Against this background , it is striking that almost no basic research into contemporary Vietnamese society is occurring . |
| 18 | It is striking that the form reserved for inanimates is used , as is appropriate when the item qualified is a relation , despite the presence of the animate noun [ m . |
| 19 | The duchy resources were still used on behalf of the royal retinue and it is striking that most of the best offices and farms went to the king 's household . |
| 20 | With so little at Gloucester 's disposal , it is striking that most of his grants went to former servants of his brother . |
| 21 | It is striking that in London Caribbean families where there are several individuals each with their own characteristic style of talk ( for example , the S. family of Conversation A ) there seems to be little pressure to conform to a single " family norm " . |
| 22 | ( It is striking that the one major Catholic foundation in this field , Westminster Cathedral , has already been dubbed ‘ le plus latin des choeurs anglais ’ by a French reviewer . |