Example sentences of "[be] not surprised that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a further 11,000 refugees were arriving yesterday in the hope of sharing this prosperity before the back door from Czechoslovakia was closed again , Becker added : ‘ I am not surprised that they want to come . |
| 2 | The baby is well and so am I. You have always been so much a mother that I am not surprised that you feel like a grandmother , even without ‘ legal sanction ’ . |
| 3 | HAVING watched M. Desclaux 's performance at Cardiff I am not surprised that the French are always complaining about referees . |
| 4 | I am not surprised that they did n't tell me about it ; we had very little money in our house . |
| 5 | I am not surprised that the Minister failed to mention the condition of schools in Greater Manchester . |
| 6 | I am not surprised that the Minister declines to give us the figures because is not the truth that about 60 to 80 times the amount of money is being spent per capita on students at the city technology college than is spent on pupils at secondary schools in Sunderland and surrounding boroughs ? |
| 7 | I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman avoided the first point , because the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Poole ( Mr. Ward ) referred produced the following answer within the Labour party : ’ Some argue it will highlight one of our weaker points ’ . |
| 8 | I am not surprised that the Minister has not mentioned redundancy payments for miners when they are closing pits willy-nilly . |
| 9 | I am not surprised that he ventured into the fray this evening , because he has already won an outstanding victory for his constituents and I well understand his desire to enjoy another . |
| 10 | I am not surprised that the Minister looks away with some embarrassment . |
| 11 | ‘ I wondered if he would come back , but knowing his personality so well I have to say I am not surprised that he has returned , ’ Roxburgh said . |
| 12 | We are not surprised that water became the symbol of baptism because of its associations with ordinary things like washing and refreshment . |
| 13 | We are not surprised that the leaders of the Catholic community in Darlington are outraged and anxious ; so are we . |
| 14 | If they are a sample of your usual conversation I 'm not surprised that he does n't listen to you . |
| 15 | I 'm not surprised that David Lee ( Oct issue ) had an epic on Cust 's Gully . |
| 16 | I 'm not surprised that our offices are in a mess , |
| 17 | I 'm , I 'm not surprised that , erm , you 're erm , you you 're having problems with it . |
| 18 | I 'm not surprised that Mr is happy to propose it because in fact it actually means that the status quo will in fact be cemented that that the situation that we 've been faced with will in fact be enshrined and supported by the council and and the Labour party have been consistently advocating that really a and they will get their way if this motion is passed . |
| 19 | and so on , so I 'm not surprised that people have these ideas about us . |
| 20 | When I was in South Africa the attorney general of the Transvaal who has brought the charges made it abundantly clear that he was not er going to be influenced by er political issues , and I 'm not surprised that he 's taken the line that he does . |
| 21 | We were not surprised that our son just could not be bothered . |
| 22 | Within this context , many observers were not surprised that the prosecuting authorities reached an unusual plea bargain arrangement with Kanemaru . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose we just took it that he would , and were n't surprised that he made a pretence of being unconcerned and going his own way about it . |
| 24 | The court is not surprised that the barrister reacted as he did . |
| 25 | Holt is not surprised that many football hooligans come , not from lower-working-class housing estates , but from the affluent suburbs and new towns away from the major conurbations : ‘ When a group have lost their old territory in which their traditions were established , football provides a symbolic substitute for the young in the heart of the old community ’ ( ibid.:339 ) . |
| 26 | Ian White says he 's not surprised that his colleagues are looking into the matter . |
| 27 | But Mr Field immediately rejected the offer , saying he was not surprised that Mr Davies had not suggested re-running it on a vote of the individual membership . |
| 28 | He was not surprised that the government had declined to arrest members of parliament such as Dr. Ian Paisley and Harry West or other elected representatives such as members of the Northern Ireland Assembly . |
| 29 | £45,000 was the asking price and I was not surprised that the sale , so to speak , hung fire . |
| 30 | Many of these employees were women and the company was not surprised that they decided to remain in London where their husbands were working . |