Example sentences of "significant because it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 The departure of Rauschning was significant because it meant that the last liberal conscience , the last internal barrier to the complete and violent Nazification of the city had now been removed .
2 It is significant because it affected a wide proportion of the inhabitants of Spain and because the preconditions of its strength persisted until very late .
3 Their fiction was considered significant because it succeeded in expressing this new experience .
4 However , in relation to the theme of this chapter , this development was significant because it created an urgent need to justify the massive input of resources .
5 ‘ The study was not significant because it documented something previously unknown , but because it documented overwhelmingly something already known . ’
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