Example sentences of "this [is] hardly surprising " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is hardly surprising as establishing new artists is a costly and lengthy process . |
| 2 | This is hardly surprising , since its gestation period comprised the years in which Eliot was working on the Notes . |
| 3 | This is hardly surprising . |
| 4 | Given that the main impetus behind EMU is the desire of the French to get a seat on the Bundesbank , and given the fact that the Germans hold all the aces , this is hardly surprising . |
| 5 | The southern coast of Crete fringes the Libyan Sea , so this is hardly surprising . |
| 6 | Given that the remotely sensed data add a great deal of information to these processes this is hardly surprising , but this general approach is relatively easy to carry out in a GIS environment . |
| 7 | But Shallis argues that this is hardly surprising , because its very terms of thought are such as to exclude it from the content of all discussion , at the very outset . |
| 8 | This is hardly surprising since one of the major activities of childhood is coming to terms with emotions , managing emotions , and establishing to what extent our own society , community , or family finds the display of emotions acceptable . |
| 9 | There never have been any economic or social targets , but given the attitude of government over the first seven years of the LDDC this is hardly surprising . |
| 10 | This is hardly surprising as it takes a very buoyant personality indeed to cope with what appears to be constant rejection . |
| 11 | This is hardly surprising , since the minimap of the British Isles in question measures one inch by an inch-and-a-half and the circle denoting the airfield is more than 40 nm in diameter in scale . |
| 12 | This is hardly surprising as there is no real escape from such irritations in the confines of the aquarium . |
| 13 | He is indeed ‘ the most political of all our poets ’ and this is hardly surprising when we remember that he grew up in an age of Revolution . |
| 14 | But this is hardly surprising when the most common location for these , and other , settlements is beside a source of water . |
| 15 | This is hardly surprising when it is remembered how far the world has changed in living memory , and in ways which inevitably made their mark on theology itself . |
| 16 | Each cell in this table represents an enormous variety of human work but this is hardly surprising since the total of eighteen cells covers all human work . |
| 17 | This is hardly surprising . |
| 18 | This is hardly surprising , given the way governments the world over have for decades hammered home the dogma of prohibition . |
| 19 | But this is hardly surprising ; such things could get you into trouble ( his ‘ promoters ’ , the Verri brothers , were already in trouble ) . |
| 20 | This is hardly surprising since these styles are not fixed and intractable . |
| 21 | This is hardly surprising since the School had been . |
| 22 | Publications in English do not in any sense reflect the strength of this critical approach , mainly because it is associated with Marxism , and in a US-dominated publishing market for Japanese studies this is hardly surprising . |
| 23 | This is hardly surprising . |
| 24 | Given the vast number of nationalities represented by the Soviet Russian empire , and the long-smouldering resentments of national minorities incorporated into that empire by force , this is hardly surprising . |
| 25 | This is hardly surprising , since most villages have long occupied the middle ground between nomadic traditions and the evolving sophistication of the towns , often acting as a buffer between the two alien ways of life . |
| 26 | This is hardly surprising , for there were very few museums , and the high cost of oriental rugs ensured that they were only affordable by the very rich , who were understandably not inclined to open up their houses to public view . |
| 27 | This is hardly surprising amongst members of a profession who earn a good deal of their living by talking . |
| 28 | Drawing a clear-cut distinction between meaning and grammar is not an easy task , because the two are so intimately interwoven ( this is hardly surprising : ultimately , the only purpose of grammar is to serve the conveyance of meaning ) . |
| 29 | At one level this is hardly surprising . |
| 30 | This is hardly surprising . |