Example sentences of "[is] [adv] surprising that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the importance of repairs it is perhaps surprising that English law in this area is an uncoordinated , disorganised confusion of common law , statute and express terms . |
| 2 | Given such a lead , it is scarcely surprising that British scientists have sought to demonstrate the practical and financial consequences of environmental events and processes ; Table 9.1 , for example illustrates their perception of the importance of global environmental research to the UK domestic economy . |
| 3 | Given Peter Wood 's background , it is scarcely surprising that Direct Line 's computer systems impress . |
| 4 | When you bear in mind that a 256 colour image at 1024 by 768 pixels is 768K in size then it is not surprising that ordinary monitor controller cards simply can not redraw the screen image with any speed . |
| 5 | Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data . |
| 6 | Moreover , with such confidence in the methods of science it is not surprising that educated men of the second half of the century were immensely impressed with its achievements . |
| 7 | It is not surprising that involuntary unemployment may be long term . |
| 8 | Since and expresses so many connective meanings and as it is so frequent in speech it is not surprising that young children sometimes overuse it in their writing , as in this piece by an 8 year old boy : |
| 9 | It is not surprising that political activity by working-class city dwellers has declined sharply in recent decades . |
| 10 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 11 | By far the majority of the packages have been developed for the microcomputer , and with this sort of equipment increasingly available in schools , especially in the UK and the USA , it is not surprising that that medium is becoming popular . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Thus it is not surprising that other people tend to underestimate their abilities and personal qualities . |
| 14 | The larger the group the greater this tendency , argues Olson , and thus it is not surprising that amorphous groups such as consumers , or even economic classes , do not unite in common action to pursue their interests . |
| 15 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 16 | So it is not surprising that each field-worker tries to select an unstudied people , or if that fails , a community whose present circumstances render them acutely interesting for ‘ theoretical reasons ’ . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that many citizens ‘ banned and cursed her ’ , nor is it wholly surprising that there were some among them prepared to give her money to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella in Spain . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that many beginners find such text bewildering . |
| 19 | Considering the additional confusion caused by much industrial nomenclature , with many trivial and trade names , it is not surprising that many formulators prefer to stick with what they know and trust . |
| 20 | It is not surprising that many professionals involved in education are rather dispirited and disillusioned at this time . |
| 21 | A recent report of the Institute of Directors on the professional development of directors ( 1990 ) led a spokesman to say that ‘ it is not surprising that many boards do an adequate rather than an excellent job ’ ( quoted in The Independent , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | Moreover , given the fact that classes have always been much larger in primary schools than elsewhere , and that primary teachers have persistently urged the need to improve pupil-teacher ratios , it is not surprising that many heads saw the opportunities afforded by PNP only in terms of smaller classes . |
| 23 | It is not surprising that many inmates want to give up their appeals . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The dimension of unc is that of voltage , so it is not surprising that many people refer to it as voltage or induced voltage , a usage into which I often lapse myself . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that many fish breed at this time , although cooler , fresh water is part of the trigger . |
| 27 | ‘ Evil communications corrupt good manners , ’ says a Greek proverb , and in the polarised world we live in , where name calling and counter-check is the order of the day , it is not surprising that good manners and etiquette have gone by the board . |
| 28 | Since what the police regards as an entirely proper task of ‘ threat assessment ’ means the surveillance of what is entirely legitimate political activity by peace or trade union organizations , it is not surprising that such actions have given rise to concern . |
| 29 | It is not surprising that such symbolism should unconsciously echo or evoke those infantile structures of representation through which identities and differences are first negotiated and invested with a sense of mastery , or that these models should be reproduced in the way racism is itself conceptualized . |
| 30 | Since many of these religious sites supported markets and periodic fairs , it is not surprising that substantial settlements developed round them , often with Iron-Age antecedents . |