Example sentences of "it is [adv] surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Actually , it is rather surprising that the labour cost has n't gone up more , especially in view of the national rates . |
| 3 | Given the revival of interest in local radio and the fact that this is occurring within a general context of economic and financial difficulty in the country as a whole , it is rather surprising that so little attention has been paid to the potential role of radio in contributing to local economic development . |
| 4 | Mind you , it is rather surprising that McDonald , a top session man turned star performer , has not established himself as a big noise in Europe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that many inmates want to give up their appeals . |
| 7 | It is not surprising that the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky should be keen on My First Loves . |
| 8 | It is not surprising that he found in addition to writing about her , he had to sing about her , too . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that reductive treatment of consciousness should have this effect . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So it is not surprising that deconstruction was reduced to what could be easily handled and passed on . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not surprising that the Royal Fine Art Commission should have considered the design inappropriate . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that the references to the past it contains are very brief . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So it is not surprising that China 's leaders have welcomed President Bush 's envoy . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that the total reversal of the ideology of the past is having its effect on Soviet pupils . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is not surprising that the value of exports grew by a mere 3% in 1990 . |