Example sentences of "remarkable [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 2 | What is remarkable is the extent to which she was able nonetheless to express intelligent analysis and genuine commitment even when working through apparently tame generic materials for Rank . |
| 3 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 4 | What is remarkable is that Mrs Thatcher has interfered in departmental matters to a greater degree than many of her predecessors . |
| 5 | Deciding which achievement was the most remarkable is all a matter of taste . |
| 6 | What is remarkable is how impervious a government can be to changing public opinion when insulated from the threat of political defeat by a substantial parliamentary majority . |
| 7 | But even more remarkable is the case of the Roman Republic , where for a century designs referring to the moneyers completely supplanted the symbols of the state ; the moneyers had the freedom to choose their own personal designs , such as family achievements or origins ( see fig. 15 ) . |
| 8 | However , what does seem remarkable is just how little effort was made to pursue the thieves after the theft was discovered . |
| 9 | What is remarkable is that , in our fearless and free-thinking age , this simple plea of an honest account of events will probably be considered too controversial — and will therefore be censored . |
| 10 | What is remarkable is that he was able to do this as a Party member and an official . |
| 11 | What is so remarkable is that , given the force of the currents in which the Bolsheviks were swimming , Lenin retained such an obstinate consistency in resisting them . |
| 12 | Speaking at the 1989 BEMAS Annual Conference , Martin Davies , Director of NCC , referred back to the early gloom and outrage , but then went on to say : ‘ What is remarkable is how little dissent and how little opposition there is now the overwhelming majority have accepted the idea of a National Curriculum . ’ |
| 13 | What is remarkable is that a consensus is achieved by natural selection , and the neologism is usually accepted by most people fairly quickly . |
| 14 | What still makes it remarkable is the string of timber-framed farmhouses along its banks . |
| 15 | Sophisticated as these are , however , even more remarkable is the interplay between different kingdoms of nature — often , though apparently not always , to the benefit of each . |
| 16 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 17 | What is also remarkable is that Stanford was born on St. Leonard 's day , was elected bishop of Durham on St. Leonard 's day and was buried in St. Leonard 's Priory . |
| 18 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 19 | What is in many ways remarkable is that the family had stayed in Frome as long as it had . |
| 20 | More remarkable is the opposition between Never ! and I come to you . |
| 21 | The helical angle varies between about 6° and about 30° but what is really remarkable is that the direction of the twist or helix — which may be either right — or left-handed — is always the same in any one tree . |
| 22 | What is remarkable is that Republican resistance continued for so long after the loss of the north in mid-1937 — a tribute to improved military organization and human courage . |
| 23 | What makes it all the more remarkable is that , unlike other group-living birds , the individuals involved in these mating combinations are not close relatives . |
| 24 | An acceptance of the fact that some pupils will require adaptations to learning materials or specialised equipment such as braillers or magnifying aids as necessary rather than remarkable is a good pragmatic basis on which to work . |
| 25 | Even more remarkable is the contrast with Becket , whose new ecclesiastical persona provoked a personal conversion and a consistency of action of conspicuous grandeur . |
| 26 | What is remarkable is that , in some systems , such as the deep layers of the superior colliculus and the motor cortex , such stimulation still elicits reactions such as eye movements or muscle twitches ( Donoghue and Wise 1982 ; Schiller and Stryker 1972 ) . |
| 27 | What is remarkable is that this heavily interventionist stance was developed by a government committed ‘ to rolling back the frontiers of the state ’ and to the values of consumerism — ‘ parents know best ’ . |
| 28 | FROM the birth of radio astronomy in 1932 , when Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves and established that they come from the Galactic Centre , it has been clear that something very remarkable is taking place at the core of the Milky Way . |
| 29 | All this is admirable , but what is really remarkable is that Monet 's influence in America has gone far beyond creating a not very long-lived school of American Impressionists . |
| 30 | What is remarkable is the extent and persistence of subcontracting relations . |