Example sentences of "so [pron] [is] [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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1 | Colour is intimately linked with light , so it is hardly surprising that changing light alters colours , enhancing the brilliance of some while causing other to fade almost into invisibility . |
2 | True , it was not so spectacular as earlier assaults on it , such as the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 , so it is hardly surprising that Israeli leaders should have so contemptuously dismissed it , so patently failed to understand its revolutionary import : that , for the first time , the enemy was offering the prospect of the civilised , peaceful , negotiated settlement for which Israel had clamoured since its foundation . |
3 | Error and uncertainty are common features of cartographic information , so it is hardly surprising that these aspects are also present in digital versions of analogue maps . |
4 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
5 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
6 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
7 | Again , this is a complex notion in itself , so it is hardly surprising that some respondents found it difficult to reply to the questions : Has the conceptual map of your subject changed much in the last decade ? |
8 | It is clear from the Chronicle account that the English were by now in considerable disarray and incapable of offering serious resistance , so it is hardly surprising that when Swegen arrived with his son Cnut and a further army in 1013 the whole nation submitted to him , and Æthelred went into exile with his brother-in-law , Duke Richard II of Normandy . |