Sentence examples for was not very surprising from inspiring English sources

Luc Pez, an analyst who covers metals and miners at Oddo & Compagnie in Paris, said the Rio Tinto announcement was "not very surprising, given the focus on reducing debt after BHP abandoned its offer".

But it was not very surprising, because trial judges rarely throw out laws that have been through the mill of appeals court review, as Colorado's rape law has many times since its enactment in the mid-1970's.

From an epistemological point of view, the project had admittedly been designed in such a way that a confirmation of von Weizsäcker's theses was not very surprising.

And as scientists tend to spread out all over the world, it was not very surprising that I got a reply shortly afterwards.

That Crouch refused to celebrate his goal was not very surprising – after all, Peter Crouch is the kind of guy who buys the clean version of Jessie J songs off iTunes – but it did serve to confirm our gravest fears: that football is suffering from a muted celebration epidemic.

It was not very surprising that the insertion of the 227 bp SINE (Ins227bp) into the promoter of the MSTN gene generated some novel putative binding sites for transcription factors.

This alone wasn't very surprising, given that the other studies found an overall preference among babies for those who act nicely.

That Deepa's love for an older woman went unrequited wasn't very surprising.

That life carries on as usual for those in power is not very surprising, but what surprises me is us; a protest movement that moves aside and lets the traffic flow.

It's not very surprising.

This is not very surprising, for a couple of reasons.