Sentences with phrase «as a great surprise»

It will come as a great surprise for your efforts to have absorbed yourself with researching the best company that can solve your debt problem.

This award comes as a great surprise — and a great honor.

«This shouldn't come as a great surprise when you consider that Professor Teachout has a habit of relocating to wherever there's an office to run for, but for those who genuinely believed what she said about Cuomo and Clinton this has to be dismaying.

Sky News reporter Alex Crawford was inside and said: «I'm sure that didn't come as any great surprise for the Pistorius family but they were extremely muted.

Maximum points from their opening three matches comes as no great surprise considering the vast sums lavished by both clubs in recent seasons.

Left speechless by the unexpected gesture of the Ooni, the Owa Obokun of Ijesa was said to have described the visit as the greatest surprise adding that despite what happened in Osogbo, Ooni still came calling.

The governor's decision did not come as a great surprise because Cuomo prefers to handle spending bills through the budget.

That probably should come as no great surprise since protein actually supports the growth of bacteria and fungus, and is used in laboratory agar to grow pathogens for in vitro testing.

On the second day of Paris Fashion Week I woke up to discover a spotless sky and sunshine, which came as a great surprise knowing the weather we've arrived to.

It comes as a great surprise therefor, that the most happening town of South Bali, Seminyak, is just a short 10 minute drive away so you don't have to miss out on fun days of shopping around at fashion boutiques, dining at high - end restaurants and clubbing at renowned beach clubs such as KU DE TA and Potato Head.

The LSSO had sent a letter last week to the LSUC expressing its concern and saying the move «imposes a new and unexpected cost to the licensing process, and came as a great surprise as no consultation or advance notice was given to students.»

It comes as a great surprise when his 16 - year - old nephew (Eisenberg, The Emperor's Club) shows up at his office, seeking advice on how to lose his virginity, believing his uncle to be able to impart all of the skills and insights in figuring out women and getting them every time, knowledge which he is all to glad to impart because of the feeling of self - importance it bestows on him at a time when he feels empty.

It therefore comes as no great surprise that Hillcoat's Prohibition - era latest should be lawless not just in nature but in name.

Since new facial recognition technology is currently being added to devices and applications everywhere — Apple's iPhone X is the perfect example here — it comes as no great surprise that Facebook would be next to incorporate some kind of facial scanning in its own platform.

In a move that comes as a great surprise to just about everyone, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has announced he will be stepping down to take the same position at the Bank of England in 2013.

It can hardly come as a great surprise that when economic growth falls short year after year and when its beneficiaries are a small subset of the population, electorates turn surly.

I don't know how that can come as a great surprise to anyone with much experience in human friendship, whether same - sex or different - sex.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

It should not come as a great surprise that about one - third of these pregnancies end in abortion, but Juno reminds us that the problem is about much more than the numbers.

While the Lawrence decision came as no great surprise, the rationale expressed in Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion is unexpectedly sweeping in its implications.

In truth, this news should come as no great surprise, considering Fury was filmed singing about «sniffing gear» with a group of England football fans earlier this year.

That Amedore drew heavily from conservatives comes as no great surprise.

«The failure of the DUP thus far to come up to the plate during the current round of negotiations shouldn't come as any great surprise,» he wrote.

News that New Paltz college don Gerry Benjamin fell a few votes short of being named a state regent on Monday comes as no great surprise.

«The idea that there could be a direct interaction between these two signaling systems comes as a great surprise,» said Barres, who was not involved in the research.

Seeing the Atlantic as an important contributor to these rainfall shifts, which happen as far away as Australia, came to us as a great surprise.

It won't come as a great surprise that having sex, or total body contact, floods our bodies with oxytocin and» happy» endorphins that make us feel on top of the world — especially when reaching orgasm!

IndieWire, Eric Kohn «While «The Purge: Anarchy» was surprisingly enjoyable, it should come as no great surprise that «Election Year» does little more than devolve into run - and - gun showdowns and howling lunatics.

This comes as no great surprise to anyone who has seen either the movie's trailer or the original film, but it highlights one of the great challenges faced by a second direct sequel: How do you make an effective mystery work for the characters when the audience knows all the answers?

As the only child of veteran Swedish stage actor Maria Fahl Vikander, that can't have come as the greatest surprise.

The news, which was overshadowed by the announcement earlier that day that Cathie Black was being replaced as Chancellor of New York City's schools, came as a great surprise to observers of New York education politics.

The win at the just - for - fun Ed Idol event shouldn't have come as a great surprise — Bennett did get a lot of free pub from us, as we reported on the event a few weeks ago.

It should come as no great surprise that any vehicle with all - wheel drive and winter tires is in high demand come winter, and as a result our 2014 Acura MDX kept busy through most of December.

It will come as no great surprise that of the two, the secured version is the best to choose.

Well, none of them will come as a great surprise, with employment security and income, the size of the down payment, and recent credit history all playing a part in the fate of a mortgage loan application.

Now this might seem very obvious and when you ask most people they would probably say that they know how much money they owe and what there credit score is, but more often than not, it comes as a great surprise to them when they sit down with a pen and paper to work out exactly what the current debt actually is; this is very critical to any form of debt management.

But more often than not it comes as a great surprise to them when they sit down with a pen and paper to work out exactly what the current debt actually is.

But noting my macro & portfolio commentary above, and considering the year we've had, that comes as no great surprise to me really.

Both have been quite hotly anticipated so it should come as no great surprise that they've done so well, Super Smash Bros..

That said, it should come as a great surprise to fans the upcoming DLC, The Missing Link, will not only give us roughly five hours of additional gameplay, but even a boss fight developed in - house at Eidos Montreal, which will differentiate itself from the others in a number of ways.

Something which may be interesting in relation to this, though, is that recently CD Projekt Red revealed that their upcoming title Cyberpunk 2077 was being developed for current and next generation consoles which came as a great surprise to many.

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So it will come as no great surprise that this year's Turner Prize contenders are pushing back the traditional parameters of art still further.

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Given that climate change challenges not only vested interests, but also a deeply entrenched world view — as once did the notion that the earth goes around the sun, widespread denial of the human role in it should not come as a great surprise.