Example sentences of "surprising [noun] [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we have no inventory of the former is inevitable ( we have neither seen them all , nor estimated with certainly how many millions there are ) , whereas the more surprising omission is that there is no master inventory even of those species that have been dealt with by taxonomists . |
| 2 | As with labour costs , the surprising thing is that the total overheads have n't increased by more . |
| 3 | The surprising thing is that Russian companies choose to repatriate anything at all , officially . |
| 4 | The surprising thing is that he published this anonymously . |
| 5 | And from one-eighth of head teachers came frustrations with education authorities : ‘ The surprising thing is that many teachers and schools cope so well , ’ said one . |
| 6 | The most surprising thing is if somebody turns round and asks you , like they did last year , ‘ Why is the sky blue ? ’ and a thing a lot of people do n't even think of , you end up being able to explain — I think that 's the appeal of it . |
| 7 | Another surprising feature is that as an EC requirement the intrastat carries a criminal as opposed to a civil penalty for non-compliance . |
| 8 | A surprising fact is that 65 per cent of the UK is supplied with hard water , a situation which means that a high proportion of hotels , restaurants and other institutions are faced with hard water problems which are costing them hard earned revenue . |
| 9 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 10 | A surprising observation is that the thrombosed grafts were confined to the patients who received a low dose of aprotinin ; graft occlusions were not seen in patients allocated to receive a high dose or placebo . |