Example sentences of "[is] not surprising " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that many inmates want to give up their appeals . |
| 3 | It is not surprising that the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky should be keen on My First Loves . |
| 4 | Pabulum Consultants ' Jennifer Rust comments : ‘ Many companies will only invest in the minimum training required to get the system up and running ; it is not surprising in these cases that the systems are not being used to their full potential . |
| 5 | Because of the élitism which such an organization of control wields , it is not surprising there is difficulty in incorporating the outside researcher , or in accepting his critical findings . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that he found in addition to writing about her , he had to sing about her , too . |
| 7 | Remembering that philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century had already assimilated thought to perception , this is not surprising . |
| 8 | It is not surprising , therefore , to observe a tendency amongst materialists to treat all properties as if they were purely relational . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that reductive treatment of consciousness should have this effect . |
| 10 | It is not surprising , then , that considerable rationalisation of yards , sidings , terminals and lines has taken place . |
| 11 | It is not surprising , since it is almost certain that the European Commission will shortly propose that labelling of ingredients for alcoholic drinks should become law throughout the community . |
| 12 | Since Nicholson 's is an Allied operation it is not surprising that Tetley 's is a fixture in its pubs and Burton Ale can usually be found . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So it is not surprising that deconstruction was reduced to what could be easily handled and passed on . |
| 15 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 16 | If we are brought up to accept the doctrine of looking after number one , it is not surprising to find the result of that upbringing reflected in society . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that the Royal Fine Art Commission should have considered the design inappropriate . |
| 18 | Another of Dr Guttering 's reasoned analyses of Prince Charles 's architectural tastes , in which the author suggests that after a childhood spent in some of the most vile Victorian mansions in the country , it is not surprising if the prince is minus the odd nut and bolt . |
| 19 | Opera is the communal act of listening to this silent voice from inside : it is not surprising that so many people are hungry for the experience it awakens . |
| 20 | This is not surprising , as the Olympic champion is almost dyslexic about his own strokes , frequently following deceptive approaches or cunningly angled winners with elementary blunders . |
| 21 | His advocacy is not surprising : he never abandoned the interventionism which was part of the conventional wisdom in the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 22 | Given the appalling historical baggage which the European far right carries with it , it is not surprising that their inclusion in the Strasbourg assembly has begun to create serious difficulties . |
| 23 | The village is almost completely destroyed , which is not surprising , due to the bombardments that it has been subjected to since 6th June by British artillery and naval guns . |
| 24 | That the semi-official history of the party should have eschewed discussion of Conservatism as an ideology is not surprising , but a prominent British Marxist scholar has conceded that ‘ the Tory tradition is not best understood as a tradition of ideas ’ and the introduction to a recent collection of essays on Edwardian Conservatism also accepts that ‘ Conservatism is not an ideology , but a frame of mind , an outlook , a general approach ’ . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that the references to the past it contains are very brief . |
| 27 | In such circumstances it is not surprising that the State is actually worshipped either in the person of a ruler or in a god which it incarnates . |
| 28 | In arguing against the notion that the family is the origin of society , Marx and Engels reverse what they had argued in their previous writing , but Maine 's version of the argument , which gives priority to private property , is even more opposed to their general position , and so it is not surprising that they reject Maine in favour of Morgan . |
| 29 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
| 30 | In the light of Kemp 's historiography , it is not surprising that he concludes that ideas about perception ( which were often explicitly discussed by ‘ scientists ’ and ‘ philosophers ' ) had little impact on artists ( p. 237 ) . |