Example sentences of "be perhaps not surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's perhaps not surprising that Hollywood has begun to repay the compliment . |
| 2 | It is perhaps not surprising that choreographers use the classical style fur most abstract ballets . |
| 3 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
| 4 | The evolution of flight led to generally light and fragile skeletons , and it is perhaps not surprising that avian fossils are so uncommon , and when found , so often fragmentary . |
| 5 | Given that these technologies are consistently promoted by opponents as a benign alternative to the dangers of nuclear power , it is perhaps not surprising that they are marginalized within the Authority 's remit . |
| 6 | Given the fact that soil conservation as a government policy was a colonial phenomenon , it is perhaps not surprising that in post-colonial Africa at least , foreign aid tended to move into the vacuum left by the colonial administration . |
| 7 | As the Canadian railway companies experimented for a distinctive national style , it is perhaps not surprising that they turned to French models , although the styles they adopted were often filtered through the United States . |
| 8 | It is perhaps not surprising that when older pupils come to sit their leaving examinations , they generally view the prospect of the examinations without much apprehension ; this may be because most decisions about their future are taken on the recommendation of their teachers rather than directly on the basis of examination results . |
| 9 | Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training : |
| 10 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 11 | It is perhaps not surprising that such an interpretation should come to the fore in the implementation of normalisation . |
| 12 | As the ancestor spirits are such realistic replicas of living elders it is perhaps not surprising that they should work in such close and harmonious collaboration . |
| 13 | As there were more cases of the husband killing his wife rather than vice versa , it is perhaps not surprising that his account often grabs the headlines and his wife 's account is muted . |
| 14 | Given these crushing disadvantages and a term of less than two and a half years , it is perhaps not surprising that Ford 's presidency was a failure . |
| 15 | In view of these constraints it is perhaps not surprising that the government was slow to propose concrete reform measures . |
| 16 | It is perhaps not surprising that , in such circumstances , the older defensive logics of the discipline , and especially the petit bourgeois critical consciousness of the Scrutiny tendency , could no longer offer a generally acceptable disciplinary ideology . |
| 17 | When researchers look at schooling from the point of view of girls , it is perhaps not surprising that writers as diverse as Alison Kelly and Valerie Walkerdine can come up with very similar findings . |
| 18 | Given the traditional English attachment to the extravagant version of the judicial independence doctrine , it is perhaps not surprising that even these modest calls for reform should have fallen on deaf ears . |
| 19 | In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes . |
| 20 | As a result it is perhaps not surprising that new advocacy schemes can be viewed with suspicion or seen as ‘ troublemaking . ’ |
| 21 | Given these qualities of the PDMs , it is perhaps not surprising that in his 1960 study Fiedler concluded that the most effective work groups were led by psychologically distant managers and not by psychologically close managers . |
| 22 | It is perhaps not surprising that this caused a political backlash in the early 1990s . |
| 23 | It is perhaps not surprising that two of the major varieties of aphasia are named after two nineteenth-century neurologists , Broca and Wernicke . |
| 24 | With his background in the personnel field , it is perhaps not surprising that the firm became actively engaged in identifying , on a structured basis , and developing the necessary skills or competences required : financial , marketing , staff and project management and so on . |
| 25 | It is perhaps not surprising that her recollections of that evening are vague . |
| 26 | Because the father is the model for the superego and the actual embodiment of authority and the demands of the cultural prohibitions against incest and parricide within the individual 's own family , it is perhaps not surprising that the antagonism towards him and what he stands for need not be limited to such self-evidently anti-social and aggressive tendencies as those revealed in the statistics of crime and violence . |
| 27 | However , given the inconsistency of the tissue type associations with alcoholic liver disease , it is perhaps not surprising that no studies have yet been reported using molecular techniques to examine the role of HLA class I and II genes in susceptibility to alcohol related end-organ damage . |
| 28 | It is perhaps not surprising that estimates of the gains and losses to the UK from EC membership appear to have dried up , and the other member states have never engaged in large-scale studies to assess the costs and benefits of membership of the CU . |
| 29 | It is perhaps not surprising that when a Christian mob destroyed the synagogue in Clermont , in the aftermath of an outrage committed on a Jewish convert to Christianity , Avitus did nothing to protect the Jews , but used the incident to force them either to be baptized or to leave the city . |
| 30 | Given the disparate primary sources of the Constitution and the difficulty in determining where the Constitution begins and ends , it is perhaps not surprising that there are no extraordinary procedures for its amendment . |