Example sentences of "not surprising that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Few of the face routes were in nick , so it 's not surprising that new route activity was limited and mixed in style . |
| 5 | As a result it is perhaps not surprising that new advocacy schemes can be viewed with suspicion or seen as ‘ troublemaking . ’ |
| 6 | It is not surprising that one railway executive of the period described this time as one of ‘ calamitous overbuilding ’ in Canadian railways . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not surprising that involuntary unemployment may be long term . |
| 9 | In view of all this it is perhaps not surprising that current practice often includes a system of settlement , under which the member is asked to admit some or all of the charges without a formal hearing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that political activity by working-class city dwellers has declined sharply in recent decades . |
| 13 | It is thus not surprising that internal decision-making is loosely coupled with external reporting ( Meyer and Rowan , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | One official later described the punishment as ‘ the most disgusting and barbarous thing I have ever seen ’ , thus it is not surprising that another official wrote that ‘ the native has a wholesome dread of the lash . ’ |
| 15 | It is not surprising that this movement had the sympathy of Euripides , who made considerable use of its tricks and mannerisms . |
| 16 | It is not surprising that this denunciation is so regularly and vehemently levelled by Americans , especially bourgeois ‘ children of capitalism ’ , who have evidently commendably sensitive consciences . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that this conclusion has been reached by a number of writers , including Falk et al . |
| 18 | As free fatty acids are the precursors of synthesis of triglyceride for incorporation into VLDL in the liver , it is not surprising that VLDL-triglyceride turnover may be increased in diabetics ( Nikkila & Kekki , 1973 ) . |
| 19 | It is not surprising that reductive treatment of consciousness should have this effect . |
| 20 | Taking advantage of the disordered and uncertain state of things it is not surprising that some mineral " owners " felt they ought to have reward for the working of minerals on their land , and there is little doubt that legal issues could and did arise where such " illegal " mining was detected . |
| 21 | With such evidence of divergent religious feeling , and at a time when antislavery was no longer disciplined by the immediate and agreed task of overthrowing colonial slavery , it is not surprising that organisational pluralism became a feature of the reform culture of abolitionists . |
| 22 | It is not surprising that gonococcal eye infection in newborn babies , a good measure of undiagnosed infection in a community , is extremely prevalent . |