Example sentences of "[not/n't] surprising that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Having to work from different angles makes it extremely difficult to maintain an even symmetry throughout the design , and it is therefore not surprising that nomadic rugs sometimes contain motifs of slightly varying sizes ; the fact that so many are perfectly balanced and symmetrical is a glowing testament to the weavers ' skill . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not surprising that many professionals involved in education are rather dispirited and disillusioned at this time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is not surprising that many beginners find such text bewildering . |
| 11 | Given the strong emphasis on children with special educational needs during the early days of PNP it was not surprising that many collaborations concentrated their attention on these children . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is therefore not surprising that many variants of the interaction between stellar winds and molecular clouds have been explored to account for the differences from one H-H object to another . |
| 14 | It is not surprising that many inmates want to give up their appeals . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is not surprising that many fish breed at this time , although cooler , fresh water is part of the trigger . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that new fossil species are discovered daily , and indeed the amateur collector has a good chance of finding a new species of fossil , if he looks hard enough and learns to recognize what he has found . |
| 22 | Few of the face routes were in nick , so it 's not surprising that new route activity was limited and mixed in style . |
| 23 | As a result it is perhaps not surprising that new advocacy schemes can be viewed with suspicion or seen as ‘ troublemaking . ’ |
| 24 | Thus it is not surprising that other people tend to underestimate their abilities and personal qualities . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that two people , who have worked closely together over a period of time , come up with a similar approach to a problem . |
| 26 | It is not surprising that one railway executive of the period described this time as one of ‘ calamitous overbuilding ’ in Canadian railways . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |