Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against that competition it is not altogether surprising that British newspaper readers found better issue coverage on British television . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does . |
| 5 | It is not particularly surprising that Coleman , a redoubtable big fish in a very small pond , although giving great attention to his early cases , later assumed a sometimes unjustified confidence , and came to believe , or at least teach , that the diseases of the horse were few as compared to those of man , and that he could carry all the drugs necessary for veterinary practice in his waistcoat pocket . |
| 6 | It is not very surprising that government and state should often appear as synonymous for it is the government which speaks on the state 's behalf . |
| 7 | It is not very surprising that turnpike proposals were opposed not only by some who saw a threat to their local economic interest but also by others , like the coal miners from Kingswood near Bristol , who destroyed toll gates in 1749 which they saw as infringing their right of free movement . |
| 8 | It is not therefore surprising that computing laboratories in universities put limits on the amount of output that users can expect in a given period of time . |
| 9 | It is not therefore surprising that walking is very much taken for granted by transport decision-makers , a familiarity that has two consequences . |
| 10 | It is not therefore surprising that Barth 's work has been and continues to be controversial . |
| 11 | It is not therefore surprising that he becomes unable to make love satisfactorily to the women he chooses since they are surrogates for his mother . |
| 12 | It is not therefore surprising that , for the most puritanical of neo-classicists , reactions such as Cicognara 's work which seduced the viewer away from what was considered ‘ true ’ or ‘ correct ’ in modern art . |
| 13 | So , it is not too surprising that the signals and mechanism of development are virtually identical in the arm and the leg . |
| 14 | It is not entirely surprising that Wagner 's gift of the Tristan poem elicited no response . |
| 15 | Given their concern that only well-founded ideals of the good , and not any ideal one believes in , should be implemented , and given the general knowledge of human fallibility , it is not really surprising that the original position does not yield a commitment to any particular ideal . |
| 16 | Ahi sā , in its positive form , reflects a great deal of the teaching of the New Testament on love and it is not really surprising that Jesus should be referred to as one who manifested ahi sā in its perfect form . |
| 17 | And , if this is an element in male-female relationships , it is not really surprising that women have such minimal expectations of male domesticity . |
| 18 | It is not really surprising that animal diseases are increasing when we consider the Government 's deliberate run-down of their veterinary service . |
| 19 | It is not perhaps surprising that concern over the handling of agricultural matters has been expressed from a number of parks including Exmoor and the North York Moors where pressures for reclamation have been , and perhaps still are , considerable . |
| 20 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 21 | It is not perhaps surprising that the source of substitution should have come from the traditional opposition group , the Bani Hashem . |
| 22 | If it is thus hardly surprising that he gave I and II Cnut his backing at a Christmas court at Winchester , it is also impossible to prove that his regime otherwise paid them much heed . |
| 23 | It is again perhaps surprising that needs in Waltham Forest are greater than in Knowsley and striking how much higher the estimated needs are for Hackney than for Knowsley ; part of the reason for the lowish assessment for Knowsley is due to the very low proportion of elderly , although this might easily be offset in principle by the atypically high proportions of children there . |
| 24 | There are very few professional aircraft accident investigating officials who do not appreciate the broad scope of the coroner 's ( or procurator fiscal 's or magistrate 's ) responsibilities but it is remarkable how many coroners have very little idea of what the technical aircraft accident investigator is trying to do ; and it is even more surprising that many do not bother to try to find out , even when an aircraft accident occurs in their area of jurisdiction . |
| 25 | It is also perhaps surprising that he did not adopt a more radical approach to the housing market , given the effect that falling house prices and the burden of debt have had on consumer expenditure . |
| 26 | It is also perhaps surprising that he did not adopt a more radical approach to the housing market , given the effect that falling house prices and the burden of debt have had on consumer expenditure . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is therefore hardly surprising that there are firms which have chosen to take out what is effectively ‘ protective authorisation ’ ; in other words , while they have no intention of conducting any investment business , they regard authorisation as a sensible precaution in case they inadvertently slip into it . |
| 29 | It is therefore hardly surprising that Persian compositions have not only been reproduced in countless machine-made carpets in the West , but also emulated by most other rug-producing countries in the East . |
| 30 | It is therefore hardly surprising that the expression " judge-proof " is now being applied to experts ' decisions as in Jonathan Gaunt QC 's article cited in Further Reading : see also Chapter 17 . |