Example sentences of "[coord] it [is] [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to all that the claim that Leeds has more parkland than any other city in Britain , plus a wealth of historical architecture which dates back to 1152 , and it 's hardly surprising that England 's third largest city is now fast becoming a very popular UK holiday destination . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal . |
| 3 | The two causes were closely linked from the 1840s and it is not surprising that when Cassell visited New York in 1853 as a delegate to a World Temperance Convention he would also use Beecher at work in Ohio . |
| 4 | Insects are fragile and easily damaged , and it is not surprising that they are sometimes destroyed completely . |
| 5 | The role of Treasurer over the years has grown from overseeing simple book-keeping to an extensive involvement and the contributions of Leslie Wise , A.J. Chapman , Albert ( Bert ) Ford and currently Jim Grey , have been valuable indeed and it is not surprising that Arthur Chapman felt the work was too demanding for an Honorary Treasurer , although what each does might vary depending on what bias the secretary brings to his post . |
| 6 | It was a classic imperial response in every sense , and it is not surprising that it was to feed into Fascist Italian and German canons of architectural taste . |
| 7 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 8 | Most broilers experience very little stimulation during their seven weeks on the farm and it is not surprising that they find the sudden changes when they are caught and transported extremely frightening . |
| 9 | In some cases , there might be reasonable grounds for the objection ; for instance , German — in has traditionally been used to denote the wife of the man with the title , and it is not surprising that women who hold positions in their own right prefer to make that clear . |
| 10 | Marx 's own use of the term is tied up with his critique of idealism and it is not surprising that when in his later work he turned his attention to a materialist analysis of the capitalist mode of production , the term and concept of ideology occurs infrequently . |
| 11 | The above ideas were generated mainly on the basis of experiments and it is not surprising that many of the key characteristics of thinking in real situations were not given sufficient weight . |
| 12 | In nature , live food forms an important , if not the major part of all fish diets and it is not surprising that fish are keen to eat this particular kind of food . |
| 13 | Ability alone was clearly not the only factor influencing the promotion of naval officers , and it is not surprising that some of those promoted did not successfully fill their new posts . |
| 14 | Thus when W , composed of parts X and Y , exists , something exists besides X and Y , and it is not surprising that it should have its own fresh value . |
| 15 | Murimuth recorded that Edward returned south with grief and without honour , and it is not surprising that rumours of treachery were rife . |
| 16 | The most available historical models are all from the period of different forms of patronage , and it is not surprising that these have been predominant in the forms of new public bodies . |
| 17 | Swainson 's original contract called for him to produce volumes at three-month intervals ; he had already done preliminary work for his abortive encyclopedia , but even so the rate of production envisaged is astonishing , and it is not surprising that Swainson failed to keep up with his timetable . |
| 18 | This is something unique ; and it is not surprising that somebody should have thought of the mystical chariot of Ezechiel . |
| 19 | She has put off the meeting with him and it is not surprising that the two different characters clash . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , many bishops continued to possess legal expertise , and it is not surprising that they made use of their knowledge . |
| 21 | The Indians in their own habitat are a completely different proposition and it is not surprising that England have only won three of the nine Test series in India . |
| 22 | The analysis of the English vowel system presented in Chapters 2 and 3 contains a large number of phonemes , and it is not surprising that some phonologists ( who believed in the importance of keeping the total number of phonemes small ) proposed different analyses which contain less than ten vowel phonemes and treat all long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two phonemes each . |
| 23 | This may well be the most effective answer to the problem of low-interest categories , and it is perhaps surprising that so few library authorities operate circulating collections — even given the administrative problems involved . |
| 24 | The letter even speaks of their ‘ rights in the matter ’ , and it is perhaps surprising that the question was not asked whether there was a case for complaint to the European Court of Justice . |
| 25 | It is not in Marx 's own writing that the idea of ‘ falseness ’ in ideology occurs and it is perhaps surprising that the notion of falseness is attributed to him ( e.g. Hirst 1976 : 385 ; Lichtheim 1967 : 18 ) . |
| 26 | Add this to the state of the economy — production down , unemployment up and interest rates still high — and it is hardly surprising that he is deeply unpopular . |
| 27 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 28 | A painful mouth will never be a responsive one and it is hardly surprising that the horse will try to evade the bit . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These distortions are the very essence of prejudice , and it is hardly surprising that conflict with Peter had arisen . |