Example sentences of "[adv] significant that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 3 | In the face of Norwegian opposition , the Joint Committee was forced to conclude that the ‘ difficulties are so significant that they can not at present be solved by the participating countries ’ . |
| 4 | The increase in the number of single-parent families has been detailed in Part I. The rise has been so significant that , had it not been overshadowed by the advent of mass unemployment , much of today 's public debate about welfare reform would be centred on how best to help this group of claimants . |
| 5 | The differences are so significant that the probability of starting fires and the degrees of difficulty in extinguishing fires , once started , can also vary quite widely . |
| 6 | Social class becomes significant when we realise that patterns of recruitment are not distributed randomly from all social strata : managerial and education , motivation , and personality variables , but this is not so significant that social background can be altogether dismissed as a relevant factor in work behaviour . |
| 7 | To my mind , it represents a change of use so significant that compensation should be given to those who suffer injury as a result . |
| 8 | The savings are so significant that we can pay a specialist mailing company to envelope , sort , bag and post the magazine for us ( this is a standard practice , very few organisations have sufficient staff to do this mammoth task , we certainly have n't ) . |
| 9 | It is obviously significant that many of the Minoan tomb entrances open towards the east ; the Temple Tomb and the Tomb of the Lady of Arkhanes both face east , the direction from which the rising sun 's resuscitating rays shine . |
| 10 | J. G. Frazer further suggests that the story of Jacob 's dream ( which was deemed so extremely significant that the spot on which it took place was henceforth sanctified in the Jewish religion ) " was probably told to explain the immemorial sanctity of Bethel , which may well have been revered by the aboriginal inhabitants of Canaan long before the Hebrews invaded and conquered the land " . |
| 11 | It is therefore extremely significant that we read of Jesus in the New Testament that the Spirit descends and remains on him ( John 1:32 ) and that God did not give his Spirit by measure or sparingly to him ( John 3:34 ) . |
| 12 | It is highly significant that he had used this expression in a letter written from the conclave to a friend , Giuseppe Piazza , the Bishop of Bergamo : ‘ My soul finds comfort in the thought that a new Pentecost can blow through the Church , renewing its head , leading to a new ordering of the ecclesiastical body and bringing fresh vigour in the journey towards truth , goodness and peace ’ ( Capovilla , 1978b , p. 47 ) . |
| 13 | In retrospect , it was highly significant that resistance to Sartre 's ‘ History ’ began by drawing attention to its ethnocentrism and Eurocentrism . |
| 14 | In the context of the present discussion of history , moreover , it is highly significant that traditional ‘ historical materialism ’ has been jettisoned in favour of the anthropological ‘ cultural materialism ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is highly significant that Simon retained the loyalty of such a man to the last . |
| 17 | Although the strong campaign of Cojuangco — a close associate of Marcos — illustrated the continuing strength of a powerful and wealthy political machine , it was considered highly significant that the other two front-runners of the campaign , Ramos and Santiago , both stood as outsiders who lacked the support of established political parties . |
| 18 | It is perhaps significant that there appeared to be more choice of newspaper than of television news . |
| 19 | And it was perhaps significant that after such a surrender , chief executive Venables was compelled to leave the comfort of the directors ' box to take his old place in the coaches ' dug-out . |
| 20 | It is perhaps significant that DES documents retained the concepts of breadth and balance , but dropped the notion of coherence in favour of two new concepts , relevance and differentiation ; these are , of course , very important curriculum concepts , but they are not the same as , or an adequate substitute for , coherence . |
| 21 | It is perhaps significant that the first reported comment by a United States court on the Convention concerned this very area . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is perhaps significant that none of the last four Lord Chief Justices — Lords Goddard , Parker , Widgery and Lane — had been law officers . |
| 26 | It is perhaps significant that both have Norse names . |
| 27 | It is perhaps significant that both have Norse names . |
| 28 | It is perhaps significant that whereas Haycocks I eventually produced a DES Circular , this one was issued only as an ACSTT Report , endorsed by the Advisory Committee as a whole and over the signature of the Chairman of the Sub-Committee . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |