Example sentences of "perhaps [not/n't] surprising " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps not surprising that choreographers use the classical style fur most abstract ballets . |
| 2 | Since females reap substantial protective benefits from associating with alpha males , this is perhaps not surprising . |
| 3 | It is ironic , but perhaps not surprising that the more virulent allegations of media bias have been levelled at the most balanced and impartial element of the media . |
| 4 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
| 5 | If this statement betrays a certain uneasiness it is perhaps not surprising given the subversive status of the Situationist project and their condemnation of the art world . |
| 6 | It therefore seems that ‘ in a purely negative way ’ the silence over the question of meaning in the Boston text and in the Scrapbook is perhaps not surprising — — it is an historically appropriate response to the disappearance of the SI . |
| 7 | This was perhaps not surprising when one considered the pressure for land when the family returned to the farm . |
| 8 | It is perhaps not surprising to find then , that here the female is the larger sex and is dominant over her male ( Ingrams , personal communication ) . |
| 9 | The evolution of flight led to generally light and fragile skeletons , and it is perhaps not surprising that avian fossils are so uncommon , and when found , so often fragmentary . |
| 10 | Given that these technologies are consistently promoted by opponents as a benign alternative to the dangers of nuclear power , it is perhaps not surprising that they are marginalized within the Authority 's remit . |
| 11 | Given the fact that soil conservation as a government policy was a colonial phenomenon , it is perhaps not surprising that in post-colonial Africa at least , foreign aid tended to move into the vacuum left by the colonial administration . |
| 12 | As the Canadian railway companies experimented for a distinctive national style , it is perhaps not surprising that they turned to French models , although the styles they adopted were often filtered through the United States . |
| 13 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 14 | With that perspective , it is perhaps not surprising to discover that decision makers often find the external information delivered to them by knowledge workers to be not as valuable in helping to solve the task in hand as they would have wished . |
| 15 | It is perhaps not surprising that when older pupils come to sit their leaving examinations , they generally view the prospect of the examinations without much apprehension ; this may be because most decisions about their future are taken on the recommendation of their teachers rather than directly on the basis of examination results . |
| 16 | It is , therefore , perhaps not surprising to see that many of the evaluation studies described in the library literature give accounts of the evaluation of specific methods and media which have been used in library instruction rather than evaluation of programmes of instruction . |
| 17 | And it is thus perhaps not surprising that there are already so many of them among our genes . |
| 18 | Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training : |
| 19 | This is perhaps not surprising given other measures of the relative size of these bodies . |
| 20 | It was perhaps not surprising that he found such alignments : the dating of events such as the solstices and equinoxes is very important to an agricultural society dependent on the cycle of the seasons . |
| 21 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 22 | This is perhaps not surprising since from the earliest stages of domestication , dogs have been kept for guarding purposes . |
| 23 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 24 | And the striking , though perhaps not surprising fact , is that the residual ( TFP ) is usually the largest term in the identity . |
| 25 | It is perhaps not surprising that such an interpretation should come to the fore in the implementation of normalisation . |
| 26 | As the ancestor spirits are such realistic replicas of living elders it is perhaps not surprising that they should work in such close and harmonious collaboration . |
| 27 | As there were more cases of the husband killing his wife rather than vice versa , it is perhaps not surprising that his account often grabs the headlines and his wife 's account is muted . |
| 28 | So it is perhaps not surprising , though it was n't made public at the time , that IBM last year paid a seven figure sum to what was then Interactive Systems Corp for the substantial body of Unix development work that Interactive provided to IBM 's Advanced Interactive Executive , AIX , effort . |
| 29 | Given these crushing disadvantages and a term of less than two and a half years , it is perhaps not surprising that Ford 's presidency was a failure . |
| 30 | And it 's perhaps not surprising that Hollywood has begun to repay the compliment . |