Example sentences of "is hardly [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colour is intimately linked with light , so it is hardly surprising that changing light alters colours , enhancing the brilliance of some while causing other to fade almost into invisibility . |
| 2 | It is hardly surprising that there is confusion over the names and numbers which describe the shapes . |
| 3 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 4 | It is hardly surprising that political partisans claimed ( at least ) to be optimistic about their party 's chances . |
| 5 | As a result , it is hardly surprising that everything from Patches to the Daily Telegraph employs at least one rock correspondent , from a teenage school-leaver in doorstep Nikes and a back-to-front baseball cap to some affable dilettante with a plum in his mouth and old school tie . |
| 6 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 7 | It is hardly surprising that a passage of Ovid is described in his Notes as ‘ of great anthropological interest ’ . |
| 8 | As women are largely responsible for the emotional wellbeing of society , it is hardly surprising that the shop-talk of women is gossip . |
| 9 | SPANNING four continents and 70 countries , it is hardly surprising that the causes , and hence solutions to tropical forest destruction shift from region to region . |
| 10 | True , it was not so spectacular as earlier assaults on it , such as the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 , so it is hardly surprising that Israeli leaders should have so contemptuously dismissed it , so patently failed to understand its revolutionary import : that , for the first time , the enemy was offering the prospect of the civilised , peaceful , negotiated settlement for which Israel had clamoured since its foundation . |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising that no trace of this epitaph remains on a lichen-covered gravestone in the churchyard at Egloshayle . |
| 12 | It is hardly surprising that it is a poor fit for animals removed from the present by hundreds of millions of years of evolution . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Given the parliamentary situation which existed , when Labour governments were minority ones in the House of Commons , and when the National government could not seriously be challenged in the 1930s , it is hardly surprising that working-class protest exerted a marginal impact upon the distribution of wealth and income in Britain . |
| 15 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 16 | With rules generally being so rigid it is hardly surprising that diets , and the good intentions that go with them , quickly get left behind . |
| 17 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is hardly surprising that horses , accustomed to brushing through well-worn fences , should find these brand-new , hard-packed ones uninviting . |
| 20 | If for much of the last 50 years the Russians were almost invisible , and those whom we did see were either the brilliant defectors or carefully hand-picked stars , it is hardly surprising that the British public swallowed the myth . |
| 21 | It is hardly surprising that present educational systems contribute little to resolving the problems of DRAs . |
| 22 | Given the very complex nature of France 's post-war politics , especially with regard to Algeria in the late 1950s it is hardly surprising that the SDECE , as the DGSE was then known , has found itself embroiled in numerous scandals . |
| 23 | Given such a broad international consensus , shared by the more accommodationist Israeli and Western liberals , it is hardly surprising that since 1974 the PLO has played down the refugee issue , and concentrated on the only acceptable diplomacy concerning a territorial return to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 24 | It is hardly surprising that ants are exploited by parasites , not just other ants but an astonishing menagerie of specialist hangers-on . |
| 25 | As our eyes open to the perilous state of the world , it is hardly surprising that so many sensible people are turning instinctively to the land and looking for smallholdings . |
| 26 | It is hardly surprising that Jacky Lee does not remember too much about the finer points of the 1958 Open at Royal Lytham and St Annes , because one horrible moment — actually quite a few seconds — has almost brought about amnesia ! |
| 27 | So it is hardly surprising that John Cranko , already a ballet pupil , although of very limited experience , was able to make himself useful when the two Cape Town companies had seasons in Johannesburg towards the end of 1943 . |
| 28 | It is hardly surprising that it should occasionally wreak vengeance on its executioner . |
| 29 | Thus , as I say , it is hardly surprising that , among those who wish to forge alliances with environmentalists , those who , like myself , work for the goal of animal liberation are likely to find the going rougher than those who are pro-welfare or anti-cruelty . |
| 30 | With all those roles it is hardly surprising that one of the most popular training requests among managers is assertiveness training . |