Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [adj] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising therefore that the paperback makes no mention of Wiggins . |
| 2 | It is not surprising therefore that the history of thought about the two policy areas is in some ways similar , although that of family planning is in many ways a decade ahead of conservation . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not surprising therefore that here in Britain the recovery that nearly all forecasters expected at the time of the Budget in March has still not become established . |
| 4 | Thus we now have many more older people and many fewer children with whom they might live , and it is not surprising therefore that the last half-century has been characterized by a reduction in the proportion of single elderly people living with relatives . |
| 5 | It is not surprising therefore that the growth of the electronic information industry has felt the impact of cutbacks both in corporate and domestic spending . |
| 6 | It is not surprising therefore that Lowenthal ( 1978 , 389 ) has concluded that : |
| 7 | It is not surprising therefore that the first video materials that came with video into the classroom were materials which had been made originally as films or broadcast television programmes . |
| 8 | It is not surprising therefore that they are a common target for mutagenesis in neoplasia . |
| 9 | It is not surprising then that areas such as sex education , religious education and the establishment of voluntary schools have proved contentious in view of the centrality of these matters to parents ' own cultural values . |
| 10 | It is not surprising then that the earliest women to enter politics did so as ‘ surrogate ’ males , to stand in for husbands or fathers ( see the case of Nancy , Lady Astor ) or that no ‘ monstrous regiment ’ of women was waiting to overwhelm men in the battle for parliamentary seats . |
| 11 | It is not unlikely either that the formation of the desire will be closely linked with current experiences and will therefore probably be fulfilled by providing more of whatever is salient in the context — porridge , or rides in a plastic tub , etc . |