Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these points in mind it is hardly surprising that international traders seek the assistance and advice of bankers in the conduct , financing and settlement of transactions . |
| 2 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 3 | Because of this lack of contact it is hardly surprising that systems and policies do not immediately have the intended effect when related , often through an education officer , to the schools . |
| 4 | In this environment it is perhaps surprising that the early factories should have received such hostile criticism . |
| 5 | Despite having come a close second to every junior side in the county at least once over the years , as the senior side in the tournament it is hardly surprising that Athletico should have done remarkably well . |
| 6 | Apprentices could be sanctioned by neither , and in the general sense it is hardly surprising that resort to corporal punishment was so common . |
| 7 | Given such an approach it is hardly surprising that relations between pacifist and Communist opponents of the war during 1939–40 proved difficult . |
| 8 | Faced with such an upward price trend it is hardly surprising that historians have tended to present the war years as a time of deteriorating living standards . |
| 9 | Mr Waite added : ‘ Because of the volatile complexity of the situation it is hardly surprising that rumours continue to circulate regarding individuals who were alleged to be connected with the hostages . |
| 10 | Mr Waite added : ‘ Because of the volatile complexity of the situation it is hardly surprising that rumours continue to circulate regarding individuals who were alleged to be connected with the hostages . |
| 11 | In view of this heightened activity it is hardly surprising that medicine should be given credit for the decline in mortality ( e.g. Griffith 1926 ) . |
| 12 | Faced with these twin assaults on his ego it was hardly surprising that many players were found wanting . |
| 13 | Given that the market has ceased to be an effective mode of regulating the exercise of the economic power of the company it is hardly surprising that arguments employed to regulate the exercise of public power should have been drawn upon to regulate the private economic power of corporate managers . |
| 14 | Considering the nature of this attitude factor , with its stress on effectiveness it is perhaps surprising that reported changes in schools are not differentially associated with it . |
| 15 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |