Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these points in mind it is hardly surprising that international traders seek the assistance and advice of bankers in the conduct , financing and settlement of transactions . |
| 2 | With all those roles it is hardly surprising that one of the most popular training requests among managers is assertiveness training . |
| 3 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 4 | This was a combination of evils grievous to bear ; and in these circumstances it is scarcely surprising that the monastic community of the cathedral church themselves took action , and instituted a search for papal privileges to uphold their failing fortunes . |
| 5 | In these circumstances it is hardly surprising that many lone women parents do not work . |
| 6 | Under these circumstances it was hardly surprising that the police adopted a laissez-faire policy . |
| 7 | Indeed in view of the tradition of seeing Christ as combining both active and contemplative lives it is perhaps surprising that mixed life was not more specifically advocated as an ideal . |
| 8 | Given Brainerd 's background in the publishing industry , mainly newspapers , and the fact that he had just left Atex it is hardly surprising that the program was designed around the traditional ‘ cut and paste ’ working methods . |
| 9 | In a world where , far from becoming ‘ paperless ’ , our output of printed material is doubling every three years it is hardly surprising that any attempt to increase our efficient use of paper is rapidly accepted . |
| 10 | Because of this lack of contact it is hardly surprising that systems and policies do not immediately have the intended effect when related , often through an education officer , to the schools . |
| 11 | In this environment it is perhaps surprising that the early factories should have received such hostile criticism . |
| 12 | With electronic aids to navigation proliferating on small boats of all kinds and technology advancing on all fronts it is hardly surprising that a revised second edition of this volume has been required only three years after first publication . |
| 13 | Despite having come a close second to every junior side in the county at least once over the years , as the senior side in the tournament it is hardly surprising that Athletico should have done remarkably well . |
| 14 | Apprentices could be sanctioned by neither , and in the general sense it is hardly surprising that resort to corporal punishment was so common . |
| 15 | Given such an approach it is hardly surprising that relations between pacifist and Communist opponents of the war during 1939–40 proved difficult . |
| 16 | Given the well-documented existence of widespread discrimination against black job-seekers it is hardly surprising that levels of unemployment within the black communities are substantially higher than those for white people . |
| 17 | Faced with such an upward price trend it is hardly surprising that historians have tended to present the war years as a time of deteriorating living standards . |
| 18 | Against this background of significant changes in household formation patterns it is hardly surprising that there has been an increase in the proportion and number of older people living alone ( Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 19 | Given the importance of repairs it is perhaps surprising that English law in this area is an uncoordinated , disorganised confusion of common law , statute and express terms . |
| 20 | Mr Waite added : ‘ Because of the volatile complexity of the situation it is hardly surprising that rumours continue to circulate regarding individuals who were alleged to be connected with the hostages . |
| 21 | Mr Waite added : ‘ Because of the volatile complexity of the situation it is hardly surprising that rumours continue to circulate regarding individuals who were alleged to be connected with the hostages . |
| 22 | In view of this heightened activity it is hardly surprising that medicine should be given credit for the decline in mortality ( e.g. Griffith 1926 ) . |
| 23 | Faced with these twin assaults on his ego it was hardly surprising that many players were found wanting . |
| 24 | Given these trends it was perhaps surprising that in 1984 the DES ( 1984b ) assumed that , despite this steady increase , the sex ratio at university entry would remain constant at its 1982 levels . |
| 25 | Given that the market has ceased to be an effective mode of regulating the exercise of the economic power of the company it is hardly surprising that arguments employed to regulate the exercise of public power should have been drawn upon to regulate the private economic power of corporate managers . |
| 26 | As it claimed to be the functioning government of Vietnam it was hardly surprising that US officers , particularly OSS , maintained fairly close contact with the Vietminh and perhaps there was a genuine basis for the American — Vietnamese Friendship Association ; and when the senior US officer , General Gallagher , was persuaded to sing at one of their meetings and , apparently , broadcast on Vietminh radio , this too was in itself a comparatively innocent exercise . |
| 27 | Considering the nature of this attitude factor , with its stress on effectiveness it is perhaps surprising that reported changes in schools are not differentially associated with it . |
| 28 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |