Example sentences of "surprising is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 What is even more surprising is that there was little celebration of the inauguration of this unique technical phenomenon in the engineering press .
2 What is especially surprising is that its motivation was less an emotional regard for historical associations than a belief in the value to science of archaeological remains .
3 What is surprising is that a new colony has settled down to breed so quickly — it normally takes a year or even longer for a newly-formed pair to get down to breeding .
4 What is surprising is that their refusal to read black texts — a refusal that makes no disturbance in their intellectual life — repeats itself when they reread the traditional , established works of literature worthy of their attention .
5 What is surprising is that even after their post-'87 conversion to the gospel of the groove , they still retain a belief in the power of the word .
6 What might seem surprising is that the coat is white .
7 What is surprising is that just for a change , some of this talk is being turned into action .
8 Perhaps even more surprising is that there are further 30 plus Spitfires dotted around the world , on the stocks and in private hands , proceeding at various rates towards flying status .
9 What is surprising is that the group which was told the topic immediately after the reading was not able to make any use of the information ; they did just as poorly as the " no topic " group .
10 What is surprising is that so few feminist researchers in the sociology of education have chosen to look at higher education , when so much work has been done on secondary education and , to a lesser extent , on primary education .
11 Here is an extract from a letter written by an indignant rentier to his bailiff ( Driver , no. x ) : When in the next century Alexander the Great , after winning the battle of Issos in Cilicia , turned south against Egypt rather than going immediately east towards the Iranian centre of the Persian Empire , his decision , as we shall see , was strategically sensible ; what is surprising is that the Persians surrendered so quickly , not trying to defend Egypt at all , although economically Egypt probably mattered more to the Persian upper class than any other satrapy .
12 What is surprising is that , when they took the weight off again , the feedforward net 's output was better than it had ever been before .
13 What is more surprising is that differentials by housing tenure are even more substantial .
14 What is surprising is that such a fact was so well narrated in a general circulation magazine from anywhere .
15 What is more surprising is that the Nat Bell case has exercised such a mesmeric hold over our jurisprudence even though the premises leading to the conclusion have been rejected .
16 What IS surprising is that the flowers are usually BOUGHT from a local nursery .
17 But perhaps what is surprising is that the DoH will not research the concerns raised by senior child protection professionals .
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