Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] significant that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's significant that a strand of films showing how a group of individuals from different social backgrounds could be brought together by war and learn to forget their divisions , generally regarded as the supreme achievement of wartime ‘ realism ’ , was anticipated in Powell-Pressburger's One of our Aircraft is Missing ( 1941 ) , in which a bomber crew bales out over Holland and works its way home with help from the Dutch resistance . |
| 2 | And it is significant that for many of them , the beacon of light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . |
| 3 | And it is significant that for many of them the beacon light is Britain — yes , Margaret Thatcher 's Britain . ’ |
| 4 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 5 | Watkins fully appreciated this and it is significant that his original ‘ vision ’ was of a series of markers stretched across the landscape rather than trackways as such . |
| 6 | The second was his residence in France during the French Revolution : this direct encounter with the main movement of the age led Wordsworth into constant political agony and debate , and it is significant that one of the main characters in The Excursion , his other long poem , is the Solitary , a despondent figure disillusioned by the failure of the Revolution . |
| 7 | And it is significant that the stories she refers to relate not to her unhappy marriage but directly to the Queen . |
| 8 | They are not obviously satisfied elsewhere and it is significant that these are the main areas that have proved susceptible to analysis by stimulation . |
| 9 | A comprehensive survey of feudal and allodial tenures ( in the Bordelais only ) was made , and it is significant that Edward 's demands for military service from Gascon vassals in 1294 closely followed the lists of vassals in the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 . |
| 10 | Yes , and it is significant that the author of the book was German like Harald Keller , who with his Kunstlandschaften Italiens attempted to define regional characteristics in various Italian styles . |
| 11 | Say , the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster , was a close associate of Edward IV and it is significant that he should already consider Gloucester 's lordship valuable . |
| 12 | The ill feeling between him and the Woodvilles apparently had its roots in the previous reign and it is significant that even those chroniclers who emphasize the Gloucester/Woodville animosity , consider that it was the Hastings/Woodville feud which was worrying Edward IV on his death bed . |
| 13 | Not until the 1880s did ‘ social purity ’ have any major legislative purchase ; and it is significant that it is from this period that the earliest critiques of ‘ Victorianism ’ stem . |
| 14 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 15 | But some have not , and it is significant that these are defended in terms of types of production which are important ‘ in and for themselves ’ . |
| 16 | The novel closes with a recognition of linguistic competence : ‘ Julia had learnt the languages of love ’ ( 239 ) , and it is significant that these ‘ languages ’ are plural . |
| 17 | And it is significant that , in the Association for Science Education , an introductory report ( Billings 1989 ) drew attention to the particular importance , in the framework of new vocational qualifications , of the assessment of prior learning , an importance further underlined by Slusarchuk & Nicholl ( 1990:112 ) . |
| 18 | In these societies the beginnings of weaning and disciplined child-rearing can be seen , and it is significant that , associated with the seasonal hunters of the Palaeolithic period in Europe and elsewhere , we find the first female figurines . |
| 19 | Within the territory of England proper , the only surviving separate language was Cornish , and it is significant that this linguistic divergence was itself an issue during political troubles in the mid sixteenth century : one plea which the Cornish rebels made in 1549 in favour of the traditional liturgy was that ‘ we the Cornyshe men ( whereof certen of us understande no Englysh ) utterly refuse thys newe Englysh ’ ( 73 , p. 135 ) . |
| 20 | Say , the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster , was a close associate of Edward IV and it is significant that he should already consider Gloucester 's lordship valuable . |
| 21 | The ill feeling between him and the Woodvilles apparently had its roots in the previous reign and it is significant that even those chroniclers who emphasize the Gloucester/Woodville animosity , consider that it was the Hastings/Woodville feud which was worrying Edward IV on his death bed . |
| 22 | MPs spent two hours discussing the make-up of a committee to draw up a new system of presidential power and cabinet veto , and it was significant that the 12 names mentioned for the committee included several Christian deputies , but only one Maronite . |
| 23 | In the longer term , of course , this would not necessarily have been true , simply because the loyalty , and the ability , of Gloucester 's successors were an unknown quantity , but it is significant that the terms of the Cumberland grants were less generous than those north of the border . |
| 24 | The teacher , or anyone else present , could take steps to test the truth of the statement , ‘ Here is a piece of chalk ’ , but it is significant that the more stringent the test the more theory is called upon , and further , absolute certainty is never attained . |
| 25 | These asymmetries are continually negotiated and re-negotiated , but it is significant that they seem to have settled down , in our own period , mainly along a line of division between newer and older means of production , with the market dominant in the new reproductive technologies and subsidy most evident in the older ‘ live ’ forms . |
| 26 | This example was meant to illustrate the unexpected links that might make up a chain of natural interactions , but it is significant that no experimental work was done to test the idea . |
| 27 | The government has so far been equivocal about the resources to be made available , but it is significant that the Griffiths proposal for a specific grant has been rejected , except in the case of the mentally ill . |
| 28 | Much of his career in fact seems to have been devoted to Amazon-slaying , but it is significant that if heroes like Heracles represent the revolt of the son against the phallic mother then they also give evidence of their dependency on her when we find our hero forced to don women 's garb and do women 's work as proof of his love for the Lydian queen Omphale , while she wears his lion 's skin , brandishes his club and spanks him with her slipper if his handiwork does not please her . |
| 29 | In the longer term , of course , this would not necessarily have been true , simply because the loyalty , and the ability , of Gloucester 's successors were an unknown quantity , but it is significant that the terms of the Cumberland grants were less generous than those north of the border . |
| 30 | ( 1985 : 687 ) suggest something quite similar to Jespersen — " the infinitive marker to may be viewed as related to the spatial preposition to through metaphorical connection " — and illustrate this by the series : How far this metaphorical connection extends is not specified , but it is significant that both Quirk et al. |