Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not surprising that " in BNC.
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1 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
2 | It is not surprising that many inmates want to give up their appeals . |
3 | It is not surprising that the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky should be keen on My First Loves . |
4 | It is not surprising that he found in addition to writing about her , he had to sing about her , too . |
5 | It is not surprising that reductive treatment of consciousness should have this effect . |
6 | Since Nicholson 's is an Allied operation it is not surprising that Tetley 's is a fixture in its pubs and Burton Ale can usually be found . |
7 | So it is not surprising that deconstruction was reduced to what could be easily handled and passed on . |
8 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
9 | It is not surprising that the Royal Fine Art Commission should have considered the design inappropriate . |
10 | Opera is the communal act of listening to this silent voice from inside : it is not surprising that so many people are hungry for the experience it awakens . |
11 | Given the appalling historical baggage which the European far right carries with it , it is not surprising that their inclusion in the Strasbourg assembly has begun to create serious difficulties . |
12 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
13 | It is not surprising that the references to the past it contains are very brief . |
14 | In such circumstances it is not surprising that the State is actually worshipped either in the person of a ruler or in a god which it incarnates . |
15 | In arguing against the notion that the family is the origin of society , Marx and Engels reverse what they had argued in their previous writing , but Maine 's version of the argument , which gives priority to private property , is even more opposed to their general position , and so it is not surprising that they reject Maine in favour of Morgan . |
16 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
17 | In the light of Kemp 's historiography , it is not surprising that he concludes that ideas about perception ( which were often explicitly discussed by ‘ scientists ’ and ‘ philosophers ' ) had little impact on artists ( p. 237 ) . |
18 | Because the established church played a major role in the provision of education before the passing of the Elementary Education Act of 1870 , it is not surprising that the lofty , brick-built church of St Peter shares its site with a school . |
19 | Hitchcock was triumphantly able to achieve this sort of synthesis , but it is not surprising that Woolf was suspicious of the highbrow values that were being propagated around this time , and decided to challenge their deployment on this film . |
20 | And , given the rather jaundiced view that civil servants had by then formed of the movie business , it is not surprising that they preferred to commend Rank for observing ‘ the normal standards of commercial efficiency and honesty , which have not so far been conspicuous within the film industry ’ than listen to the arguments presented by Palache that budget control on Rank 's film productions was inadequate . |
21 | So it is not surprising that China 's leaders have welcomed President Bush 's envoy . |
22 | It is not surprising that the total reversal of the ideology of the past is having its effect on Soviet pupils . |
23 | It is not surprising that many people , some of whom may have seen the equity in their homes rise tenfold , should decide to spend more . |
24 | Given the extremes within the party it is not surprising that there is a continuing feud between those willing to make political deals and those so utterly opposed to the system that they will make no concessions . |
25 | It is not surprising that McNamara received a cool reception from Peter Thorneycroft , who had succeeded Harold Watkinson as Minister of Defence in Macmillan 's new cabinet , when he arrived in London on 11 December to explain the reasoning behind the decision to cancel Skybolt . |
26 | It is not surprising that the value of exports grew by a mere 3% in 1990 . |
27 | After more than 40 years of hostility , it is not surprising that there is an anti-American lobby too . |
28 | With that kind of price tag , it is not surprising that a long string of American entrepreneurs — including even Thomas Jefferson — have tried to find a way to cultivate various Morchella species . |
29 | Given his scepticism about our ability to penetrate to the real essences of things , it is not surprising that he finds that none of the much-discussed contemporary theories on offer provide a satisfactory answer , and concludes that we are simply ignorant about this . |
30 | Given movie trends , it is not surprising that women tend to win their Oscars in their late twenties , men in their early forties . |