Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not particularly surprising that Coleman , a redoubtable big fish in a very small pond , although giving great attention to his early cases , later assumed a sometimes unjustified confidence , and came to believe , or at least teach , that the diseases of the horse were few as compared to those of man , and that he could carry all the drugs necessary for veterinary practice in his waistcoat pocket . |
| 2 | Against that competition it is not altogether surprising that British newspaper readers found better issue coverage on British television . |
| 3 | So it is not altogether surprising that the impact of such decisions was both relatively modest and ( in the case of the Crown Court ) short-lived . |
| 4 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 5 | The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does . |
| 6 | Given their concern that only well-founded ideals of the good , and not any ideal one believes in , should be implemented , and given the general knowledge of human fallibility , it is not really surprising that the original position does not yield a commitment to any particular ideal . |
| 7 | Ahi sā , in its positive form , reflects a great deal of the teaching of the New Testament on love and it is not really surprising that Jesus should be referred to as one who manifested ahi sā in its perfect form . |
| 8 | And , if this is an element in male-female relationships , it is not really surprising that women have such minimal expectations of male domesticity . |
| 9 | It is not really surprising that animal diseases are increasing when we consider the Government 's deliberate run-down of their veterinary service . |
| 10 | So , it is not too surprising that the signals and mechanism of development are virtually identical in the arm and the leg . |
| 11 | It is not perhaps surprising that concern over the handling of agricultural matters has been expressed from a number of parks including Exmoor and the North York Moors where pressures for reclamation have been , and perhaps still are , considerable . |
| 12 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 13 | It is not perhaps surprising that the source of substitution should have come from the traditional opposition group , the Bani Hashem . |
| 14 | It is not very surprising that government and state should often appear as synonymous for it is the government which speaks on the state 's behalf . |
| 15 | It is not very surprising that turnpike proposals were opposed not only by some who saw a threat to their local economic interest but also by others , like the coal miners from Kingswood near Bristol , who destroyed toll gates in 1749 which they saw as infringing their right of free movement . |
| 16 | It is not entirely surprising that Wagner 's gift of the Tristan poem elicited no response . |
| 17 | It is not therefore surprising that computing laboratories in universities put limits on the amount of output that users can expect in a given period of time . |
| 18 | It is not therefore surprising that walking is very much taken for granted by transport decision-makers , a familiarity that has two consequences . |
| 19 | It is not therefore surprising that Barth 's work has been and continues to be controversial . |
| 20 | It is not therefore surprising that he becomes unable to make love satisfactorily to the women he chooses since they are surrogates for his mother . |
| 21 | It is not therefore surprising that , for the most puritanical of neo-classicists , reactions such as Cicognara 's work which seduced the viewer away from what was considered ‘ true ’ or ‘ correct ’ in modern art . |
| 22 | As training and hire costs are comparatively low int he USA and certain other countries , it 's not altogether surprising that our young , impecunious hopefuls feel frustrated at the much higher prices asked in the UK . |
| 23 | But it 's not really surprising that this accommodation should come to pass . |
| 24 | It 's not really surprising that she saved up all the maggots for me to look at , at least once a week . |
| 25 | Multi-processors seem to be the flavour of the day at the moment and IBM Corp has been promising a multi-processing addition to its RS/6000 line for some time , so it 's not too surprising that we hear it 'll announce one in around six weeks for delivery later in the year . |
| 26 | IT 'S not so surprising that Britt Ekland ( right ) has developed a few worry lines . |
| 27 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |