Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] hardly surprising " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to all that the claim that Leeds has more parkland than any other city in Britain , plus a wealth of historical architecture which dates back to 1152 , and it 's hardly surprising that England 's third largest city is now fast becoming a very popular UK holiday destination . |
| 2 | To improve the quality of our work , these are erm , when I say though the current position is the technical quality is variable , these this assessment comes from internal reviews which are carried out and we have annual quality control reviews in all parts of the of the practice and the answers that have been come back coming back from those quality control reviews have and they 're pretty strict reviews it seems , strictly in accordance with the book , strictly in accordance with all the reg rules and regulations and , so if one has deviated from those and it 's hardly surprising how very high standards B S five seven five O would have , be quite easy to obtain in most of our practice areas , so it 's hardly surprising that there will be occasions when we do n't actually er come up with ten out of ten on a on an assignment . |
| 3 | Add this to the state of the economy — production down , unemployment up and interest rates still high — and it is hardly surprising that he is deeply unpopular . |
| 4 | We 've all seen pictures of Page 3 girls and pornographic images of women showing the female body in a constantly inviting , sexual way just walking into a newsagent 's on a Sunday morning often means you are surrounded by them ) and it is hardly surprising if girls themselves , as well as men , sometimes feel confused ; believing that girls might ‘ want ’ to be raped , or are asking for trouble , if they dress up to go out , or behave independently by going out or walking home alone . |
| 5 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 6 | They represented what T. S. Eliot was to call ‘ the happy combination of privilege and opportunity ’ , and it is hardly surprising if many older people now look back on them with gratitude ( which is justified ) and a regretful nostalgia ( which , I shall argue , is not ) . |
| 7 | A painful mouth will never be a responsive one and it is hardly surprising that the horse will try to evade the bit . |
| 8 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 9 | These distortions are the very essence of prejudice , and it is hardly surprising that conflict with Peter had arisen . |
| 10 | It is a gradual process of which there will be intermediate phases and it is hardly surprising that in such instances we will be uncertain whether or not to admit that the infant has made the grade . |
| 11 | These permanent passes are vitally important to the security of the Empire , and it is hardly surprising that fortresses guard these strategic points . |
| 12 | These financial burdens are magnified in the absence of other important sources of finance , and it is hardly surprising to find 99 per cent of the total number of firms going bankrupt located in the small firm sector . |
| 13 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 14 | In ancient times this magnificent monument must have been much admired and it is hardly surprising that Imhotep was remembered as a great man and eventually became a god . |
| 15 | By the time amber had reached the head of the Adriatic it was readily accessible by sea and it is hardly surprising that Kakovatos on the west coast of the Peloponnese should have yielded the richest find of amber from this period in Greece . |
| 16 | It was a fool 's paradise , but they were n't to know that , and it was hardly surprising that few worried much about the maintenance of British-financed production . |
| 17 | It may be pure conjecture but he gives the impression that he knows the words to The Sash and could sing them backwards , and it was hardly surprising when football fans nicknamed him ‘ Agent Orange ’ . |
| 18 | A lot of people have been laying into the Tomlinson report on London 's health services , and it was hardly surprising to find one of the most vociferous was NUPE 's general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 19 | Ethel Hallow was the form sneak and goody-goody , and it was hardly surprising that Mildred felt unfriendly towards her after all the mean tricks Ethel had played during their first two terms , including almost getting Mildred expelled on two occasions . |
| 20 | An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty . |
| 21 | The main difficulty there is a severe case of market constipation , but it is hardly surprising that no one is moving : no one can afford to . |
| 22 | Had all consultants done this , the problem would have evaporated , but it was hardly surprising that they did not , since the gilt on the medical gingerbread came from private practice . |