Example sentences of "it was not surprising that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ambassador said it was not surprising that many people refused to believe Wallenberg was dead , since the Soviet authorities initially denied he was in custody : ‘ Who believes you if you have lied before ? ’ |
| 2 | In the subsequent scramble for survival and enrichment which mounted towards the end of 1922 , it was not surprising that those who were slightly better off often took a kind of revenge in driving hard bargains with their poorer neighbours , as has been noted earlier . |
| 3 | It was not surprising that the amount spent on exploration sank from $760 million in the still relatively fat year of 1979 to between $120 and $150 million at the end of the 1980s and the size of known reserves remained static over a period of at least four years . |
| 4 | Feisty , secretive , determined to win , it was not surprising that one of Allen 's fervent admirers was Richard Nixon , who , Washington legend has it , would call the coach during the dark hours of Watergate to discuss Redskin strategy and — who knows ? — to get some tips on how to handle his own presidency . |
| 5 | If the President could not afford to defy McCarthy , it was not surprising that Washington career men toed his line . |
| 6 | It was not surprising that it was in Britain that the most effective campaign against nuclear weapons began . |
| 7 | Given this cast of mind , it was not surprising that during Mrs Thatcher 's occupancy the Great and Good found the doors of 10 Downing Street more closed than at any time since the war . |
| 8 | When these aspects of Nonconformity , its inherent political bias and its identification with Victorian values , led ministers into the political arena , it was not surprising that critics complained : ‘ The men whom the churches care to hear … are the men who speak most loudly upon the current political topics , and who … ‘ play to the gallery ’ and , echoing the gallery 's political watchwords , rouse the gallery to re-echo them in its turn . ’ |
| 9 | People were coming to accept that Nonconformist chapels should look like ‘ churches ’ and that Nonconformist services should be more ‘ dignified ’ and ‘ ecclesiastical ’ ; it was not surprising that people should come to view the nature of the Church itself in a different vein from their forefathers . |
| 10 | Since ‘ working men ’ — which meant manual labourers — now had the vote , and greatly outnumbered other types of voter , it was not surprising that those claiming to speak in their interest rose to power . |
| 11 | In light of the large numbers who had chosen a similar response to the question , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ it was not surprising that so many gave job satisfaction as one of the personal benefits of training . |
| 12 | As a trained biologist and a conservationist ( ‘ since I was nine ’ ) , it was not surprising that he was interested in the Selva Sur which boasts more plants and species than anywhere else on earth . |
| 13 | It was not surprising that a growing number of small farmers in the West Bank viewed the commission agents not only as too closely connected with Amman politically , but also as parasites upon their labour . |
| 14 | in view of the prominent part taken by the women 's movement and of the general position of women in society , it was not surprising that women felt particularly strongly on such issues . |
| 15 | It was not surprising that after 5 October , leadership of the mass movement which they had evoked was gently , but firmly , taken out of their hands . |
| 16 | It was not surprising that the initial source of inspiration was the breakdown of his first serious relationship , a subject to which he would later return with regularity . |
| 17 | It was not surprising that , on his retirement in January 1936 , he was quoted as saying : ‘ A man can not serve two masters , I am a man without a hobby ’ . |
| 18 | Given Bukharin 's reference to disproportionality it was not surprising that he should refer to Marx 's schemata of reproduction . |
| 19 | Under these circumstances it was not surprising that Masailand developed a tradition of preternaturally forceful District Officers — men as tough and independent as the Masai themselves . |
| 20 | In addition it was not surprising that Mr A was totally flummoxed when suddenly there is no voice and somebody begins to make faces instead . |
| 21 | It was not surprising that even within the upper reaches of the Party discontent began to come into the open , or at least to be expressed clearly behind closed doors at meetings of the Central Committee or Council of Ministers . |
| 22 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |
| 23 | It was not surprising that students tried to find places in the ‘ good ’ work units which offered decent conditions along with a chance of self-development and advancement . |
| 24 | Hence , it was not surprising that , as an answer to the problem of unemployment , PEP should have seized upon the seductively plausible idea of retirement pensions that had originated in Labour circles ten years earlier . |
| 25 | Hence it was not surprising that Britain declined the invitation to join the proposed coal and steel structure , ostensibly because it was unwilling to accept beforehand the principle of a new and binding supranational authority . |
| 26 | Given the wide diversity of views within the Council about the nature of economic cooperation , let alone its political implications , it was not surprising that if anything positive was to come from the idea , it would be little more than a minimalist option . |
| 27 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 28 | So it was not surprising that George found that nobody would accept the dangerously exposed position of Prime Minister and that Pitt was indispensable even though he had no majority in the Commons . |
| 29 | With the continuing stalemate in 1917 and early 1918 it was not surprising that the radical right became restive and began to campaign both inside and outside the Unionist party for the removal of Lloyd George . |
| 30 | Also , given the political context , it was not surprising that the growth of fascism should meet with such hostility in Great Britain . |