Example sentences of "remarkable is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 What is remarkable is that Mrs Thatcher has interfered in departmental matters to a greater degree than many of her predecessors .
2 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 .
3 What is remarkable is that he was able to do this as a Party member and an official .
4 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 .
5 What is remarkable is that a consensus is achieved by natural selection , and the neologism is usually accepted by most people fairly quickly .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 What is in many ways remarkable is that the family had stayed in Frome as long as it had .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 ) .
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 The accusations were flat and uniform , although what is truly remarkable is that the youth of the nation were believed not only to be free of all discipline , but also excessively affluent .
15 But what is more remarkable is that so many farmers were sentimental ( and some impecunious ) enough to keep their hedgerows in for so long .
16 What is remarkable is that the same basic truths can be experienced and expressed in such outwardly differing modes .
17 What is remarkable is that the initiative here was taken by the High Anglican clergy , who should have been the natural allies of the Stuart monarchy , and who had staunchly defended James 's title to the throne during the Exclusion Crisis .
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