Example sentences of "[coord] it is [adv] significant [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All rabbits carry fleas and it is most significant that does , as the result of being in recent contact with a nest , always appear to have the greatest infestations . |
| 2 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
| 3 | They certainly performed the other functions of the chapel of the contemporary kings of Germany ; and it is doubtless significant that some of them were of German origin . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This seems to be precisely what happens ( Walkerdine , 1982 ; Edwards and Mercer , 1986 ) , and it is undoubtedly significant that classroom studies have exposed children 's unwillingness to ask questions ( Hargie , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | The parallel between this theory and Matthew 's more general model of mammalian evolution is obvious enough — but it is also significant that throughout the previous century Asia had been regarded as the source from which successive waves of higher races had invaded Europe . |
| 7 | From our knowledge of Nietzsche 's earlier thinking on that subject , we would naturally take such a title to imply a central concern with tragedy and its demise , but it is certainly significant that the word " tragedy " is not itself part of the title . |