Example sentences of "[pron] [is] significant that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's significant that on page one eight six of our , of the blue book , we report four sentenc for er lines from the top two presbyteries expressed a desire for the whole practice of infant baptism to be re-examined , only two presbyteries . |
| 2 | I think it 's significant that in Scotland many people have absolutely no time for the monarchy ! |
| 3 | It would be interesting to know , but however that may be , it 's significant that within this very first paper Trivers makes this prediction and my interpretation of penis envy is effectively what , about what , Trivers predicted . |
| 4 | It is significant that under imitation forms , he states that ‘ the above , i.e. Nos. 170 — 178 , are dated by the Sigillata forms they imitate , which are of first century type . |
| 5 | It is significant that under s46(2) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , banks or finance companies who have only acquired goods for the purposes of supplying them on hire , hire purchase or conditional sale , are not treated as suppliers for the purposes of liability for defective products and consumer safety . |
| 6 | It is significant that during the second and third centuries B.C. what was probably a customs post at Begram , Afghanistan , on the route between China and the west was handling ivory as well as glass and bronzes from the west in addition to lacquer bowls from China . |
| 7 | It is significant that at one time in their lives both Sarah and Diana have suffered from debilitating eating disorders , anorexia nervosa and bulimia respectively . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind that all the women who appear are portrayed as homemakers of one kind or another , it is significant that on the occasions when potentially humorous situations emerge , women are the ‘ butt of the joke ’ on six of these occasions ( and Audrey as a potential one ) , despite the fact that there are fewer women overall . |
| 9 | And it is significant that for many of them , the beacon of light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . |
| 10 | And it is significant that for many of them the beacon light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . ’ |
| 11 | It is significant that in the light of Roland Barthes 's S/Z ( 1970 ) , critics would subject even Balzac to the kind of analysis usually reserved for the more oppositional novels produced by the nouveau roman ( see Jefferson 1983 ) : poststructuralist and deconstructive readings could transform the ‘ readerly ’ into the ‘ writerly ’ . |
| 12 | Even so , it is significant that in most of the volumes on cat breeding and pedigree standards , there is a small , tell-tale phrase under the heading of ‘ coat colours ’ , which states that the fur ‘ should be dense with no trace of white hairs ’ . |
| 13 | But despite this , it is significant that in the entire teaching of the New Testament epistles you will search in vain for any sustained exhortation to evangelise . |
| 14 | It is significant that in ( David Raymond ) Smith the Court of Appeal had first to perform some surgery on the relationship of mens rea to the actus reus of criminal damage to reach the desired conclusion and it is therefore unsurprising that adverse comment was expressed by some of their Lordships in Morgan . |
| 15 | It is significant that in his affidavit evidence the debtor criticises the quality of the advice he received , but he does not otherwise query the reasonableness of the charges . |
| 16 | It is significant that in the following year , in his dissenting speech in Reg. v. Warner [ 1969 ] 2 A.C. 256 , 279 , he , while agreeing with the general rule , was prepared to consider an exception from it although not that the time was right to do so . |
| 17 | It is significant that in this area of institutional studies some of the sharpest questions about the nature of sociological inquiry have been directly or indirectly posed . |
| 18 | Thus it is significant that in a more secular drama ( affected also by some of the emphases of Protestantism ) the formerly habitual direct dramatic presentation of God the Father or Jesus Christ became prohibited or unthinkable . |
| 19 | It is significant that in July 1939 , at a time when Stalin was actively negotiating the Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler , Nizan was quoting Zhdanov to the effect that the finalising of the tripartite peace agreement was being held up solely by the delaying tactics of France and Great Britain . |
| 20 | It is significant that in the mid-century the French government paid its minister in Washington less than a seventh ( 20,000 francs against 150,000 ) of the salary of its ambassador in London . |