Example sentences of "surprising that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was not really surprising that despite his upwardly mobile outlook , Collor attended the paupers ' summit in June 1990 at which fifteen debtor nations from the underdeveloped South discussed their predicament . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
| 3 | It is a fine venue with wonderful views , so it is not surprising that at the turn of the century special trains were laid on to bring the visitors . |
| 4 | It was therefore not surprising that at the time Indirect Rule was rising to ideological prominence an emphasis on recruiting the right people should develop in the Colonial Service . |
| 5 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 6 | It was not surprising that at this moment the image of her mother — the canon 's widow in the dark flat near Westminster Cathedral should rise up before her . |
| 7 | Given such a broad international consensus , shared by the more accommodationist Israeli and Western liberals , it is hardly surprising that since 1974 the PLO has played down the refugee issue , and concentrated on the only acceptable diplomacy concerning a territorial return to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 8 | Given this cast of mind , it was not surprising that during Mrs Thatcher 's occupancy the Great and Good found the doors of 10 Downing Street more closed than at any time since the war . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that for every evaluation of a conservation programme or policy , there are perhaps ten of conservation techniques . |
| 10 | It is then not surprising that for a very long period the most difficult problems in the social relations of cultural practice revolved around the question of literacy . |
| 11 | Ten days later , Falkenhayn was on the telephone himself , expressing the fear that the British were after all about to attempt a relief operation , ‘ and probably a landing attempt ’ It was hardly surprising that on April 17th Rupprecht — irritated and not keen to be involved in another of Falkenhayn 's half-measure offensives that he deplored — coolly declined his invitation to attack the British , pointing to the strong reinforcements now in the line . |
| 12 | Is it surprising that against a background as inchoate as this a new and virile movement should have arisen , central to whose belief is the power and reality of the Holy Spirit ? |
| 13 | Nor was it surprising that after the apparently mindless brutality of the Amin years , Obote 's eventual return to power in 1980 was characterized by the continuing dominance of the army as the real force in Ugandan politics , supporting a parliamentary facade of no real legitimacy . |
| 14 | It was not surprising that after 5 October , leadership of the mass movement which they had evoked was gently , but firmly , taken out of their hands . |
| 15 | It was hardly surprising that after an initial period of cooperation and even of euphoria , unrest and discontent , mingled with weariness of a conflict which became ever more bloody and apparently endless , began to grow . |
| 16 | Is it not surprising that after several years of unremitting devolutionist propaganda from the Scottish Constitutional Convention , support for devolution is almost at an all-time low , according to the opinion polls ? |
| 17 | ‘ It is most surprising that in the tourism industry the necessity for language training to meet the growing demand for overseas visitors is not felt to be important , ’ the report said . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 19 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |
| 20 | Given the fact that soil conservation as a government policy was a colonial phenomenon , it is perhaps not surprising that in post-colonial Africa at least , foreign aid tended to move into the vacuum left by the colonial administration . |
| 21 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 22 | Now , it is not at all surprising that in the 70s both the deep ecologists and the animal liberationists were slow to see that need . |
| 23 | It is surprising that in his time and ever since , his culpability has received so little attention . |
| 24 | It is not surprising that in many of the contests over the centuries , no archer has been able to ‘ ding doon ’ the papingo . |
| 25 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 26 | It 's hardly surprising that in retaliation many people regard the pushy salesperson with contempt . |
| 27 | It is a gradual process of which there will be intermediate phases and it is hardly surprising that in such instances we will be uncertain whether or not to admit that the infant has made the grade . |
| 28 | The link between judicial appointments and parliamentary politics has been one of the most durable connections , and it is therefore scarcely surprising that in the eighteenth century an appointment to the bench was not to be had without considerable political interest , and that this culmination of the career of a lawyer-freeholder was the reward of lengthy association with the great men of the period . |
| 29 | For this reason , it 's not surprising that in some careers friendship blossoms between people taking the same path . |
| 30 | It is hardly surprising that in the aftermath of the First World War , when there was a rising current of anti-militarism , the Boy Scout Association felt it necessary to issue a disclaimer in 1920 : ‘ Our Scouting has nothing to do with SOLDIERING ; it is merely the practice of backwoodsmanship … |