Example sentences of "surprising [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What many feminists find most surprising about the article is its appearance at a time when the abortion issue has regalvanised women . |
| 2 | What is surprising about the Metro is its reluctance to being screaming and howling when you start working the engine hard . |
| 3 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 4 | Later , he 's playing at Washington DC 's 9.30 Club and the modest-sized venue is already sold out — hardly surprising for a line-up which also boasts Arrested Development and the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy , two of the States ' most acclaimed ‘ alternative rap acts ’ . |
| 5 | It is a very mixed bag , which is not surprising for a composer so prodigal with his talents over so wide a field . |
| 6 | The word gigantic may seem surprising for a cell , especially when you remember that 10 million bacterial cells could sit on the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 7 | Surprising for a snake . |
| 8 | Such outcomes are , perhaps , surprising for a policy aimed at promoting flexibility and mobility in the labour market . |
| 9 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 10 | As a kind of amalgam of a Ministry of Justice ( dealing with the rights of the individual ) and a Department of the Interior ( responsible for internal order and the integrity of the state ) , it would hardly be surprising for the Home Office to show symptoms of schizophrenia ; it controls immigration , prisons , and drug abuse , for example , in addition to carrying responsibility for the Metropolitan Police and the Special Branch , and all these activities depend heavily on collecting and using personal information . |
| 11 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 12 | Such a theme was , and still is , at the centre of debate throughout all Western societies , but what was really surprising for the Japanese to read was the clear attribution , from a Westerner , that a limited state role was one of the most important reasons why Japanese was destined to be the ‘ Number One ’ . |
| 13 | The importance of support is almost certainly to some extent bound up with self-esteem and the ability of the individual to cope with difficulties as they arise ( Brown et al. , 1986a ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) Given that adverse life events can bring about affective disorders , this is hardly surprising as a general conclusion . |
| 14 | This is not surprising as the dog 's capacity to associate a form of behaviour and the consequences of it are limited to less than two seconds . |
| 15 | The view taken by the majority was surprising as the decision of the minister not to intervene was clearly one of policy with which the courts are usually reluctant to interfere . |
| 16 | This is not surprising as the algorithm to assign risk is weighted in favour of such cases . |
| 17 | Some of the crew puffing after only half an hour or so , which is n't surprising as the only exercise they take in the normal run of things is putting their legs under a table and aiming their snouts at the trough . |
| 18 | This is not surprising as the Nd Yag laser is only capable of safely treating intraluminal tumours . |
| 19 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 20 | It 's hardly surprising after a climb like that . ’ |
| 21 | This is no longer surprising after the discussion in Section I. The second , which is more remarkable , is that the liberal interpretation put forward is reached precisely by analogy with the institutions of the civil law . |
| 22 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 23 | This is not altogether surprising considering the factors militating against their preservation — break-up of skeletons after death , the necessity to have a skeleton incorporated with sediment , and the activities of predatory and scavenging animals to destroy remains . |
| 24 | No after action reports seem to have been filed for any of these early raids , which is not surprising considering the impromptu nature of their planning and execution . |
| 25 | A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition before the raid had finished , which was hardly surprising considering the high rate of fire of the Vickers K guns . |
| 26 | While it must be conceded that the New Testament displays no great preoccupation with data-gathering — which is not surprising considering the complexity of numeration in both the Hebrew and Roman world ! — there is no positive evidence to suggest that Christ 's mission should be pursued in ignorance of obtainable facts . |
| 27 | While appreciating the situation , he said that it was not altogether surprising considering the tragic circumstances . |
| 28 | These results are perhaps not surprising considering the well documented difficulties of the textile industry allied to the quota restrictions on the fishing industry . |
| 29 | Rob and Joyce always sound very busy , which I suppose is not surprising with a small child . |
| 30 | The appointment was all the more surprising within the Colonial Service where , contrary to common precedent , Macpherson had never been tried out as ‘ officer administering the government ’ ( OAG ) ; but those who had known him in Lagos a decade earlier at once recognized that they were getting the outstanding man of the Service . |