Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is hardly surprising that Meléndez Valdés became an afrancesado . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was hardly surprising that the British had a near-monopoly on both cable technology and signal equipment techniques . |
| 3 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 4 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 5 | So it is hardly surprising that John Cranko , already a ballet pupil , although of very limited experience , was able to make himself useful when the two Cape Town companies had seasons in Johannesburg towards the end of 1943 . |
| 6 | So it is hardly surprising that the place has bred a line of hardy , taciturn beings who , accustomed from birth to fighting the elements simply to survive , are not given to public demonstrations of any kind of emotion . |
| 7 | So it is hardly surprising that nablabs are seen merely as a distress purchase . |
| 8 | Their origins , their tectonic and metamorphic history , and their structural relations , present geologists with some of the most complex problems to be solved within the science as a whole , and so it is hardly surprising that many universities have research interests here . |
| 9 | To improve the quality of our work , these are erm , when I say though the current position is the technical quality is variable , these this assessment comes from internal reviews which are carried out and we have annual quality control reviews in all parts of the of the practice and the answers that have been come back coming back from those quality control reviews have and they 're pretty strict reviews it seems , strictly in accordance with the book , strictly in accordance with all the reg rules and regulations and , so if one has deviated from those and it 's hardly surprising how very high standards B S five seven five O would have , be quite easy to obtain in most of our practice areas , so it 's hardly surprising that there will be occasions when we do n't actually er come up with ten out of ten on a on an assignment . |
| 10 | Thus it is hardly surprising that malignant diseases of the breast , ovary , and endometrium all occur more commonly in nulliparous women . |
| 11 | Nonetheless it is perhaps surprising that the librarian has not crossed swords with the law over obscene and indecent literature before now . |
| 12 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 13 | If their view of God is what they say , then it is more surprising that they did not reject it much earlier . |
| 14 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 15 | The two sides , however , were still separated by traditional rivalries extending over several centuries as well as by differing interpretations of Marxism , disputed borders and rivalry in their relations with other countries ; indeed it was perhaps surprising that their earlier association had lasted as long as it did . |
| 16 | Yet it was hardly surprising that Greenpeace insisted that Mr Lamont was still a red box Chancellor , not a green box Chancellor . |