Example sentences of "is surely [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surely self-evident that whatever role they might have expected to perform in the family is likely to be changed , by being alienated from their roots . |
| 2 | At the present stage of scientific development , it is surely sad that a healthy human fetus should be destroyed merely because it is not of the sex the mother prefers . |
| 3 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 4 | It is surely reasonable that taxes should be designed to be easy and cheap to collect , difficult to avoid and should not be a discouragement to the enterprise and effort of those paying them . |
| 5 | The intriguing point is this : if the Germans really did land in East Anglia in 1940 , and there was an elaborate cover-up , it is surely inconceivable that Ealing would have been allowed by the censors to portray such an accurate reconstruction only two years later . |
| 6 | If we return to the point where this chapter began , it is surely evident that nothing approaching the executive hegemony found in the United Kingdom exists in the United States . |
| 7 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 8 | It is surely conceivable that she heard and had pity on us … |
| 9 | And if we look to the people to play a more positive role , freely voicing their demands and hopes , their fears and grievances , as well as introducing ideas and initiating policies , it is surely plain that this can only happen in an atmosphere of the greatest possible freedom and openness , from which any taint of intimidatory anxiety or apprehension as to the possible consequences of speaking out is entirely absent . |
| 10 | It is surely significant that one of the greatest of these , Richard of Wallingford , Abbot of St Albans in the early fourteenth century ( see ch. 7 ) , was the son of a blacksmith . |
| 11 | It is surely significant that when the government of newly independent Zimbabwe was seeking finance to buy out South African interests in the country 's newspapers and establishing a new framework within which its press , television and radio could operate , it went to Nigeria both for finance and for advice . |
| 12 | It is surely significant that the enchanting country houses designed by Edwin Lutyens at this period should often be described as ‘ dream houses ’ . |
| 13 | It is surely significant that at c.60 rpm for the 1793 machine 's flywheel , the tempo of the Haydn ‘ Clock ’ Symphony 's Menuetto Allegretto ( Czerny marks it Allegro ) is dotted minim = c.72 , certainly reasonably close to Czerny 's 76 for the same music . |
| 14 | It is surely true that the combination of the television set 's growth into an essential item of domestic furniture in the 1950s and the winning personality and buccaneer play of Palmer gave the game an enormous stimulus . |
| 15 | None the less , it is surely true that it will be difficult to reach firm conclusions from comparing experiments which , however similar they may be formally , use quite different subjects , stimuli , and training procedures . |
| 16 | It is surely true that occasionally interest is awakened only after individuals have been coerced into doing something . |
| 17 | There has also been deliberate wooing of parents who had already made their selection , although it is surely obvious that changes in mid-stream can only be damaging , in terms of stability , education and coach/player relationship . |
| 18 | Even in terms of their own theoretical approach , it is surely obvious that in many respects stratification is dysfunctional , producing many negative and damaging social consequences . |
| 19 | It is surely obvious that we can not go on as we are as we pollute the world and as poverty increases , along with violence , vandalism and random destruction , more of it at Gateshead last night apparently . |