Example sentences of "it is [adv] surprising that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal . |
| 2 | Given that artists such as Sonia Boyce , Brenda Agard and Jennifer Comrie were first brought to a wider public 's notice in these exhibitions curated by Lubaina , it is not surprising that we owe her a debt which , given the current backlash against Blackwomen 's Creativity , we fear that we may never be able to repay . |
| 3 | So it is not surprising that we can not get computers to understand them . |
| 4 | In arguing against the notion that the family is the origin of society , Marx and Engels reverse what they had argued in their previous writing , but Maine 's version of the argument , which gives priority to private property , is even more opposed to their general position , and so it is not surprising that they reject Maine in favour of Morgan . |
| 5 | And , given the rather jaundiced view that civil servants had by then formed of the movie business , it is not surprising that they preferred to commend Rank for observing ‘ the normal standards of commercial efficiency and honesty , which have not so far been conspicuous within the film industry ’ than listen to the arguments presented by Palache that budget control on Rank 's film productions was inadequate . |
| 6 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 7 | Insects are fragile and easily damaged , and it is not surprising that they are sometimes destroyed completely . |
| 8 | Most broilers experience very little stimulation during their seven weeks on the farm and it is not surprising that they find the sudden changes when they are caught and transported extremely frightening . |
| 9 | Since the headmen were neither recruited , trained nor even supervised in a consistent manner , it is not surprising that they were generally inactive when it came to dealing with crime . |
| 10 | It is not surprising that they come into conflict , with one side feeling threatened by innovative theory and the other feeling frustrated by established practice . |
| 11 | Since women usually are more active than men in keeping contact with relatives , it is not surprising that they are more involved in the giving and receiving of practical support . |
| 12 | On the other hand , since it is mostly women who are responsible for running households and caring for dependent members of their families , it is not surprising that they are involved in helping each other in these practical ways , which lend themselves to being organized on a reciprocal basis . |
| 13 | Since officials and clerks are not allowed to express their real feelings at work , it is not surprising that they have difficulty tolerating the feelings of their customers . |
| 14 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 15 | The early bipedal hominids were smaller than us so it is not surprising that they had smaller skulls , but there are no good grounds for supposing that men have gradually been evolving into creatures of greater and greater intelligence . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , many bishops continued to possess legal expertise , and it is not surprising that they made use of their knowledge . |
| 17 | So it is not surprising that they also occur in the second part of the novel . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that he found in addition to writing about her , he had to sing about her , too . |
| 19 | In the light of Kemp 's historiography , it is not surprising that he concludes that ideas about perception ( which were often explicitly discussed by ‘ scientists ’ and ‘ philosophers ' ) had little impact on artists ( p. 237 ) . |
| 20 | Given his scepticism about our ability to penetrate to the real essences of things , it is not surprising that he finds that none of the much-discussed contemporary theories on offer provide a satisfactory answer , and concludes that we are simply ignorant about this . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is not surprising that he became the subject of legend , his noble image inspiring the collective imagination to attach magical tales to his historical person . |
| 22 | Lear is to be blamed for believing Goneril and Regan , yet since they were merely flattering his debased scale of values , in a test which he had himself devised , it is not surprising that he did so . |
| 23 | He is also , like many archaeologists , a connoisseur of real ale , so it is not surprising that he singles out as a favourite this inscription from Upton-on-Severn : |
| 24 | It is not surprising that he failed . |
| 25 | As a man of affairs and political influence it is not surprising that he had his opponents . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not surprising that he has not arrived at Osborne House yet . |
| 27 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 28 | Given my background , as described in the previous chapter , it is not surprising that I should have felt particularly sensitive on this point . |
| 29 | But it is not surprising that it first arose in what history has called ‘ the Hungry Forties ’ . |
| 30 | It was a classic imperial response in every sense , and it is not surprising that it was to feed into Fascist Italian and German canons of architectural taste . |