Example sentences of "be surprising [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is surprising is that a new colony has settled down to breed so quickly — it normally takes a year or even longer for a newly-formed pair to get down to breeding . |
| 2 | What is surprising is that their refusal to read black texts — a refusal that makes no disturbance in their intellectual life — repeats itself when they reread the traditional , established works of literature worthy of their attention . |
| 3 | What is surprising is that even after their post-'87 conversion to the gospel of the groove , they still retain a belief in the power of the word . |
| 4 | What is surprising is that just for a change , some of this talk is being turned into action . |
| 5 | What is surprising is that the group which was told the topic immediately after the reading was not able to make any use of the information ; they did just as poorly as the " no topic " group . |
| 6 | What is surprising is that so few feminist researchers in the sociology of education have chosen to look at higher education , when so much work has been done on secondary education and , to a lesser extent , on primary education . |
| 7 | Here is an extract from a letter written by an indignant rentier to his bailiff ( Driver , no. x ) : When in the next century Alexander the Great , after winning the battle of Issos in Cilicia , turned south against Egypt rather than going immediately east towards the Iranian centre of the Persian Empire , his decision , as we shall see , was strategically sensible ; what is surprising is that the Persians surrendered so quickly , not trying to defend Egypt at all , although economically Egypt probably mattered more to the Persian upper class than any other satrapy . |
| 8 | What is surprising is that , when they took the weight off again , the feedforward net 's output was better than it had ever been before . |
| 9 | What is surprising is that such a fact was so well narrated in a general circulation magazine from anywhere . |
| 10 | What IS surprising is that the flowers are usually BOUGHT from a local nursery . |
| 11 | But perhaps what is surprising is that the DoH will not research the concerns raised by senior child protection professionals . |