Example sentences of "surprising [is] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is surprising is that a new colony has settled down to breed so quickly — it normally takes a year or even longer for a newly-formed pair to get down to breeding . |
| 2 | What might seem surprising is that the coat is white . |
| 3 | What is surprising is that the group which was told the topic immediately after the reading was not able to make any use of the information ; they did just as poorly as the " no topic " group . |
| 4 | Here is an extract from a letter written by an indignant rentier to his bailiff ( Driver , no. x ) : When in the next century Alexander the Great , after winning the battle of Issos in Cilicia , turned south against Egypt rather than going immediately east towards the Iranian centre of the Persian Empire , his decision , as we shall see , was strategically sensible ; what is surprising is that the Persians surrendered so quickly , not trying to defend Egypt at all , although economically Egypt probably mattered more to the Persian upper class than any other satrapy . |
| 5 | What is more surprising is that the Nat Bell case has exercised such a mesmeric hold over our jurisprudence even though the premises leading to the conclusion have been rejected . |
| 6 | What IS surprising is that the flowers are usually BOUGHT from a local nursery . |
| 7 | But perhaps what is surprising is that the DoH will not research the concerns raised by senior child protection professionals . |