Example sentences of "be surprising " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be surprising if Japanese tourists now go in search of gardens she created , or of the grave into which her coffin was gently lowered by gardeners in 1932 . |
| 2 | It would be surprising if a similar tally were not being kept in Moscow now , against the day when Gorbachev may over-reach himself . |
| 3 | After 20 years of close co-operation , it would not be surprising if there were a pro-Iraq lobby inside the Soviet ministry of defence . |
| 4 | It should neither be surprising nor intriguing that many European countries , as well as Israel , have viewed recent efforts aimed at German unification with scepticism and concern . |
| 5 | Despite huge debts and a still disproportionate reliance on farming , an enviable record of strong growth and low inflation matches an appetite for change that ought not to be surprising in a society where half the population is under 28 ( and more than half the nuns and priests are over 60 ) . |
| 6 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 7 | This account of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages may have been rather weighted towards the political , and perhaps , given the political complexion of the discussion , it may be surprising to many readers that more has not been said about the papacy . |
| 8 | The commencement of the major attack on Britain and ‘ the complete destruction of the island ’ was now seen as urgent ; Germany , it was felt , could last a third war winter , but sabotage would increase , and it would not be surprising if another ‘ November 1918 ’ was the result . |
| 9 | If the degree of rotation was very small , so that for each dot the nearest neighbour is its own image , this would not be surprising : all that need be done is to draw imaginary lines between all pairs of nearest neighbours , and those lines will circle the centre of rotation . |
| 10 | It would be surprising to those who witnessed Arazi 's incredible run through the field to win the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile in November to learn of any decline . |
| 11 | It would not be surprising if the surplus were now between £200m and £300m , giving a total for the newly enlarged BTR group of about £750m . |
| 12 | It will be surprising if its conference next week sees a sudden change of tone . |
| 13 | Financial management was now assuming greater importance in the industry and whilst only 8% mentioned this subject it would be surprising if many more did not find difficulty with it . |
| 14 | Bearing in mind the size of the KGB 's foreign operations it would be surprising if it did not have some successes . |
| 15 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 16 | Accordingly it would be surprising if animals learned the same thing about the stimulus in the two cases . |
| 17 | This could be surprising , as the sessions are very repetitive and the teaching session very formal . |
| 18 | But little would be surprising in Nefta . |
| 19 | The results might be surprising and you will certainly feel different about some aspects of life ! |
| 20 | It may be surprising to discover that medieval war engines were capable of throwing huge objects , and causing extensive destruction within a besieged city . |
| 21 | It would not be surprising if you found that the work started arriving either only just on time or even late . |
| 22 | When viewed in this light it should not be surprising that the loudest , most powerful voices being heard in the name of animal welfare — at least in the United States — are those who have a vested interest in the perpetuation of animal exploitation . |
| 23 | It would note be surprising if they were enjoying themselves because everyone likes puzzles that are pitched at the right level ; but could they also be soaking in such GCSE-endangered basics as valency , formula , and molecular weight ? |
| 24 | It would not be surprising if Nicholas did n't share his things next time round . |
| 25 | At a time when a major trend in large businesses , particularly those operating across national boundaries , is towards decentralisation and the management of the whole as a set of , for example , ‘ core competencies ’ , with very light control at the centre , it would be surprising if companies rushed to put significant resources into global information management . |
| 26 | These Permian and Triassic salts , well known in the Cheshire Basin and in the Irish Sea Basin ( Colter and Barr 1975 ) , have so far only been identified in Ireland in and around the Larne Basin , though it would be surprising if that was the limit of their former extent . |
| 27 | It would be surprising if prolonged periods of psychological morbidity are not reflected in declining physical health . |
| 28 | No one has attempted a census of the fauna , but there are many common birds and the vegetation must supply food for many insects , so it would be surprising if the insectivores and small rodents were not colonising , and thereby attracting predators . |
| 29 | The qualitative approach may be acceptable for small systems , but for more substantial enterprises it would be surprising if the development of more disciplined and rigorous approaches , say through the wider use of mathematics , would not be more successful and lead to new types of opportunity . |
| 30 | Let us admit that since the FFYP was the very first exercise of its kind in history , it would not be surprising if there were discrepancies , failures of some kind . |