Example sentences of "it is [adv] surprising that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal . |
| 2 | Since there is such a wide difference between the least violent types of eruption ( Hawaiian ) and the most violent ( Plinian ) , it is scarcely surprising that there is an equally wide difference between the kinds of pyroclastic rocks produced by each . |
| 3 | In view of the depressed state of the Kosovan economy and the high rates of unemployment , it is scarcely surprising that there is continual emigration of Serbs and Montenegrins from the province ( and presumably also of Albanians , although no one bothers to record that aspect ) . |
| 4 | In these circumstances , it is scarcely surprising that there is evidence of international and interdisciplinary dispute , as Terney ( 1989 ) has chronicled in regard to IGBP . |
| 5 | It is hardly surprising that we emerge with ‘ a crisis in the humanities ’ . |
| 6 | Headhunters are , by definition , enemies of long-term company loyalty and , because they spend so much time persuading people to move , it is hardly surprising that they themselves do not hesitate when they see an exciting new opportunity . |
| 7 | It is hardly surprising that they regarded the Britons as the defeated enemy to be despised and kicked around . |
| 8 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Given the obvious importance of the main road and street frontages , it is hardly surprising that they provided the most attractive sites for occupation . |
| 11 | When the bluff failed , it is hardly surprising that no-one seriously considered attempting to implement the general strike against war . |
| 12 | As a result , it is hardly surprising that everything from Patches to the Daily Telegraph employs at least one rock correspondent , from a teenage school-leaver in doorstep Nikes and a back-to-front baseball cap to some affable dilettante with a plum in his mouth and old school tie . |
| 13 | In view of the points above , it is hardly surprising that none of these was rated as more than moderately effective , and only the advisory staff were rated as significantly better than ineffective . |
| 14 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 15 | Add this to the state of the economy — production down , unemployment up and interest rates still high — and it is hardly surprising that he is deeply unpopular . |
| 16 | It is hardly surprising that he should have jumped at the chance of establishing his ‘ Samba school ’ in Paris . |
| 17 | Given the amount of time that the male has invested in his group of females , it is hardly surprising that he is ready to defend them vigorously against other males . |
| 18 | Similarly , it is hardly surprising that he speaks in glowing and not always accurate terms of Cnut 's reign itself . |
| 19 | It is hardly surprising that he can not find the people he is looking for when even the largest organisations have so few senior women . |
| 20 | It is hardly surprising that there is confusion over the names and numbers which describe the shapes . |
| 21 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 22 | It is hardly surprising that there is a high degree of confusion and it is not always clear who is to blame ( or can claim credit ) for particular activities . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Against this background of significant changes in household formation patterns it is hardly surprising that there has been an increase in the proportion and number of older people living alone ( Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 25 | Given the general background of the Bill 's legislative history , and its late application to the children 's hearings system , it is hardly surprising that there is an apparent , though fundamental , ambiguity in its provisions in relation to children 's hearings . |
| 26 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 27 | It is hardly surprising that there are signs of disenchantment with Æthelred 's government . |
| 28 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 29 | It is hardly surprising that it is a poor fit for animals removed from the present by hundreds of millions of years of evolution . |
| 30 | It is hardly surprising that it should occasionally wreak vengeance on its executioner . |