It is not surprising that so delicious a flower has furnished Oriental poetry with many charming traits and amorous similes.
It is not surprising to find that music should have some share in arousing sexual emotion when we bear in mind that in the majority of persons the development of sexual life is accompanied by a period of special interest in music.
Since the physiology of olfaction is yet so obscure it is not surprising that we have no thoroughly scientific classification of smells, notwithstanding various ambitious attempts to reach a classification.
Since music thus directly and powerfully affects the chief vital processes, it is not surprising that it should indirectly influence various viscera and functions.
It is not surprising, therefore, that Frederick the Great was unwilling to have his sister plunged into such a life.
That he should have made a favorable impression on the women whom he met is not surprising, because of his social standing, his chivalry, his fine manners, and his handsome face.
It is not surprisingif her nerves sometimes gave way.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the simple-minded and unlettered mariners of Palos viewed the order of the crown as a sentence of destruction on all who might be fated to obey it.
It is not surprising, therefore, that when he and the party he invited to follow him had left the room, there remained only the princesses, the Marchioness of Moya, and Mercedes.
It is not surprising, therefore, that, when left alone on the highway, even the spirit of this extraordinary man grew faint within him, and he had to look to the highest power for succor.
It is not surprising, then, that Pitt and Dundas, despite the drain of ships and men to Ostend and Toulon, did all in their power to secure this colony, which had always been deemed essential to the prosperity of French commerce.
It is not surprising, after the September massacres, that Ministers should hold sternly aloof from the French envoys; but we may note that Miles considered their attitude most unwise.
It is not surprising that a prince impatient even of wholesome rebuke was enraged at this monkish tirade.
It is not surprising, perhaps, that the institution of the sacred office, with its bloody code and relentless tribunal, was pressed so repeatedly upon the French monarch and parliament for their acceptance.
It isnot surprising that, being of an avaricious character, she soon accumulated great wealth.
We cannot, indeed, well say by what power it diffuses itself equally, though it is not surprisingthat it should go from the parts which have the most to those which have the least.
Is it not surprising that so great a variety of substances, and so different in their nature, should yet all arise from so few materials, and from the same original elements?
It is not surprising, therefore, that when talking with peasants about their actual condition, one constantly hears the despairing cry, "Zemli malo!
This is not surprising, because the Jews have more business capacity than the Russians, and centuries of oppression have developed in the race a wonderful talent for secret illegal activity, and for eluding the vigilance of the police.
It is not surprising, therefore, that it has been known to pass laws which were found at once to be absolutely unworkable.
Amongst people who thus fail to perceive any sharp line of distinction between beasts and men it is not surprising to meet with the belief that human beings are directly descended from animals.
During this session, Darwin attended nearly all the Council meetings, and took such an active part in the work of the Society that it is not surprising to find that he was now requested to accept the position of Secretary.
Possessing such power and prestige, it is not surprising to learn that abbesses wielded great influence in temporal as well as spiritual matters; that it pervaded politics and extended to the courts of kings and emperors.
It is not surprising, then, that she was regarded as an oracle, and that all classes flocked to her as they did to the abbess of Whitby for guidance and assistance.
It is not surprising that at first very erroneous estimates were made of the new position when peace at last returned.
In the first place, it is not surprising, though it surprised Macaulay, that he had many sympathies with the socialist, Robert Owen.
It is not surprising that, in Southey's opinion, it is doubtful whether the bulk of the people has gained or lost in the last thousand years.
Dixon informs me, with remarkable facility; but several of them are short-lived under confinement, so that their sterility in this state is not surprising.
Under such circumstances it is not surprising to learn that many an office involving the handling of government revenues has its price as definitely known as the price of stocks or bonds.
It is characteristic of this type of mind to be interested in the tangibilities of geometry, hence it is not surprising to be told that Pythagoras "carried that science to perfection.
Hence it is not surprising to find Anaxagoras credited with explaining the winds as due to the rarefactions of the atmosphere produced by the sun.
That faulty observations and faulty application of the correct principle should have been made is not surprising.
Why it is not surprising I shall try to show elsewhere.
But it is not surprising that a generation of exceptionally sweet and attractive but rather formless colourists should be shocked by the obtrusion of those black lines that seem to do violence to their darling.
It is not surprising, then, that visual art, which seems to many the mirror in which they see realised their own ideals, should have become for some a new religion.
That they have not been found thus far to contain all of our elements is not surprising, for we should have difficulty in finding a piece of our Earth weighing a few kilograms which would contain 25 of our elements.
Such brevity is not surprising, since a more extended treatment would only have embarrassed the progress of the argument.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not surprising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
