Example sentences of "so [pers pn] is [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is not surprising that deconstruction was reduced to what could be easily handled and passed on . |
| 2 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So it is not surprising that China 's leaders have welcomed President Bush 's envoy . |
| 5 | So it is not surprising that some solitary horses will go to extreme lengths to join other horses ; even though the other horses may be quite unfriendly . |
| 6 | Although a minor error in the recitation of the Vedas was looked upon with strong disapproval , passing events were regarded by the Hindus as devoid of real significance and so it is not surprising that no importance was attached to providing them with accurate dates . |
| 7 | Most of the time Harry was playing for Crystal Palace we were a Third Division club and so it is not surprising that most of the great achievements to which he helped to take us were in the FA Cup . |
| 8 | So it is not surprising that adolescents sometimes make heavy weather of the whole process . |
| 9 | So it is not surprising that each field-worker tries to select an unstudied people , or if that fails , a community whose present circumstances render them acutely interesting for ‘ theoretical reasons ’ . |
| 10 | So it is not surprising that efforts have been made to apply New Critical methods to prose fiction . |
| 11 | So it is not surprising that those suffering the greatest stress — who are disadvantaged in terms of income , housing , environment , and health — are also those most likely to need help . |
| 12 | So it is not surprising that the Mittelland overrides cantonal frontiers . |
| 13 | So it is not surprising that few people exist who have ideal qualifications . |
| 14 | So it is not surprising that we can not get computers to understand them . |
| 15 | It is criticized by the Tories and the media and of course they never explain how it works , so it is not surprising that the general public is suspicious of it . |
| 16 | Religious support is normally little called upon — indeed the record of most religions with regard to these issues is not regarded as good , and so it is not surprising that many see religion as the suppressor of human rights rather than as their advocate . |
| 17 | So it is not surprising that they also occur in the second part of the novel . |
| 18 | So it is not surprising that his interest developed from driving them very fast and very skilfully to the point where he now heads a business specialising in accident repairs and coachbuilding with a turnover in the region of £7.5 million . |
| 19 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 20 | So it is hardly surprising that John Cranko , already a ballet pupil , although of very limited experience , was able to make himself useful when the two Cape Town companies had seasons in Johannesburg towards the end of 1943 . |
| 21 | So it is hardly surprising that the place has bred a line of hardy , taciturn beings who , accustomed from birth to fighting the elements simply to survive , are not given to public demonstrations of any kind of emotion . |
| 22 | So it is hardly surprising that nablabs are seen merely as a distress purchase . |
| 23 | Their origins , their tectonic and metamorphic history , and their structural relations , present geologists with some of the most complex problems to be solved within the science as a whole , and so it is hardly surprising that many universities have research interests here . |