Example sentences of "[not/n't] altogether surprising " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this is not altogether surprising ; for Dorothy Pound seems to have been English in a singularly entire and uncompromising fashion . |
| 2 | Against that competition it is not altogether surprising that British newspaper readers found better issue coverage on British television . |
| 3 | In the present context , what is significant , if not altogether surprising , is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews . |
| 4 | This is not altogether surprising considering the factors militating against their preservation — break-up of skeletons after death , the necessity to have a skeleton incorporated with sediment , and the activities of predatory and scavenging animals to destroy remains . |
| 5 | Canada 's action is not altogether surprising in view of her dubious record on other conservation issues , but it is sad to see the proposals coming from the US . |
| 6 | Given its inherent advantages however , this is not altogether surprising and the commercial and residential property markets have responded quickly and emphatically to LDDC 's pump-priming activities . |
| 7 | As training and hire costs are comparatively low int he USA and certain other countries , it 's not altogether surprising that our young , impecunious hopefuls feel frustrated at the much higher prices asked in the UK . |
| 8 | While appreciating the situation , he said that it was not altogether surprising considering the tragic circumstances . |
| 9 | That was not altogether surprising given that , as a KGB officer who had been posted to London for six years , it would be astonishing if he had not . ’ |
| 10 | While this agreement is not altogether surprising — feminists can not entirely avoid fighting on already established ground , and the cultural importance of sex difference is deeply entrenched — its consequences have sometimes been regrettable . |
| 11 | Climbers are often confused with ramblers , which is perhaps not altogether surprising in view of their similarities , and is not helped by the practice in many nursery catalogues and garden centres of grouping the two together . |
| 12 | So it is not altogether surprising that the impact of such decisions was both relatively modest and ( in the case of the Crown Court ) short-lived . |
| 13 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 14 | In the ensuing proceedings custody of Miss T. was granted to her mother , which is not altogether surprising as she was still very young and was a girl . |
| 15 | The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does . |
| 16 | The absence of reference to a division of the southern province , therefore , is not altogether surprising . |
| 17 | Russell 's findings are not altogether surprising . |
| 18 | In view of the internal difficulties of the USSR and the apparent indifference of the British government this course was not altogether surprising . |