Sentences with phrase «come as a surprise to know»

It doesn't come as a surprise to know that many players struggle with transferring training methods, practices and exercises from their international duties to their club team.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to know that the author of the book on which The Beach is based, Alex Garland (Sunshine), would be the screenwriter for 28 Days Later, and by Boyle sticking closer to the source material, a much more effective result has been achieved.

However, it may come as a surprise to know that the apartment markets in smaller Georgia cities such as Athens, Augusta and Savannah are drawing a relatively high level of investor interest as well.

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It came as a surprise to some who know or have worked with Joanna Hendon that she would represent President Donald Trump in the case against his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen.

I think it is difficult to know where the next crisis will come from, and, in general, it is better to have a system that is safe from errors in judgment and surprise than it is to try and avoid errors in judgment and surprises because as along as you are dealing with human beings, there will be errors and surprises.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

In a study that comes as a surprise to approximately no Christian under the age of 40, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says technology use among religious people is no different than among anybody else.

This should come as no surprise to those who know me.

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.

No matter how much we hear that or believe it to be true, it still comes as a surprise.

Yet it comes as no surprise to anyone who knows Church history and understands anthropology.

Longtime readers know of my obsession with mathematical beauty, so it should come as no surprise to find me hopping up and down most eagerly and pointing you towards Matthew Milliner's very immodest proposal in Public Discourse.

Even though such feelings on the part of the Islamic extremists were well known to the leaders in the USA and the rest of the world from the earlier incidents, like, the bombing of the World Trade Center in1993, the bomb attacks on USA embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar - es - Salaam in Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, the incident of September11 came as a total surprise.

It shouldn't come as any surprise to our regular readers as we know I've talked about atheism quite a bit.

Bishop said... «Though we are not yet at the point of knowing for certain who did this horrible crime it would come as no surprise to any intelligent person if the individual or individuals responsible are the nutters with the NRA and the Tea Party Republicans.»

Though we are not yet at the point of knowing for certain who did this horrible crime it would come as no surprise to any intelligent person if the individual or individuals responsible are the nutters with the NRA and the Tea Party Republicans.

Of course, men had come to recognize the way some things usually happened — as children know that stones thrown in the air customarily fall to the ground, so that they would be surprised if a stone failed to do that.

If the only version of God some people know is the one heard in Sunday School, it may come as a surprise for them to realise that viewing God as a symbol is possible within the church context.

I came to that somewhat surprising conclusion while talking to Jesuit priests who lived with the future Pope, then known as the Rev. Jorge Bergoglio, during the early 1980s.

I know so little, so although I came down on the university here, if she went to the University as a lesbian, and knew that they had a stance against her sexual orientation, it probably should not have been a surprise to her when they refused to graduate her.

This is particularly surprising for us today, for we tend to know Burke, when we do, as the father of modern conservatism, while we have come to understand America's founding principles as resolutely liberal and progressive.

It might come as a surprise to readers who know the work of Stanley Fish only by his reputation among conservative literary critics, but every sentence in his new book How Milton Works validates» indeed depends on» Hirsch's principles of interpretation.

This probably comes as no surprise to anyone who knows me even a little bit.

We as fans know this but it will come as a surprise to the staff as they will not have the depth of quality players to cover.

It will not come as a surprise to many Arsenal fans, as we already knew or suspected that the Frenchman does not like to spend a lot of money.

As every Arsenal fan knows, an estimate of thee months from Arsenal is going to be far from accurate going on past performance, so it wouldn't surprise me if he only just came back at the very end of the season to help us snatch fourth place.

It comes as no surprise to anyone to know that Theo Walcott was far from his best last season.

And Mourinho knows all about our club record signing Mesut Ozil from being in charge of the German at Real Madrid, so the report by the Daily Star claiming that the Chelsea boss wants to sign Ozil this summer should come as no surprise.

Even though it hasn't been that long since Wilshere completed his season long loan move to the south coast, it actually comes as a surprise to many people that there has been no bad news surrounding the midfielders fitness, despite partaking in a friendly match for the Cherries as well as their training ground exercises.

This hardly came as a surprise following last week's analysis which found that «Cinderella» teams (also known as public underdogs) have been extremely profitable to fade.

«We've never been prepared like this before as far as I'm concerned this is the best preparation all the players we recruited came from Premier league sides and I'm not surprised that they want play in the (NNL) because Bayelsa United one of the highest paid sides in Nigeria despite the fact that we're playing in the (NNL), So we have a lot of quality players from premier league sides, Players that I know that can take the team back to the Nigeria Professional Football league almost immediately.»

So, whereas I was of the opinion that heading into Monday's encounter no longer top of the league would have a negative effect on the team, it will instead empower them with so much reassurance and positivity that any sort of result would be enough to keep them on course for the title, but it does also mean they're there to be shot at so don't be at all surprised if United come sprinting out of the blocks this evening and put the Gunners to the sword very early on as don't forget, United had top - spot stolen away from them because of the recent bout of adverse weather.

We can't know what's going to happen, only Lambert does, but it wouldn't come as too much of a surprise to hear that they are searching for a new manager sometime soon, and certainly before the start of next season.

Van Gaal's appointment, meanwhile, came as no surprise to Kagawa, who added: «We've known for some time it was going to be him.

I recently found the notebook and was surprised to see my first son's first name in there, which I don't remember liking back then, and my second son's first and middle names as a combo, which I don't remember putting together... I've always loved my second son's fn but didn't know I'd come up with a mn for it... I thought my husband and I had names both boys with current information and tastes!

Stuffed Animals - much as they aren't talking yet, babies at this age understand a surprising amount, so animal toys area great toy for them and the baby will soon come to know the names and sounds or all the animals.

The renowned diplomats» decision to contest the Deputy Chairperson position of the AU Commission did not come to us as a surprise at all because we knew his passion, competency and rich experience will be enough to win the seat and it has come to pass too as envisaged.

Isaacs has made clear he has no plan to challenge Cox directly, but told me last December: «When the time comes that Ed Cox is no longer chairman, I don't think it would come as any surprise to see me in the mix.»

«Though he promised to give me a car months back, it came as a surprise because I never knew it will come this soon.

The immediate past National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Adjei has stated the party's defeat in the 2016 general elections did not come as a surprise to him as he knew the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would win.

The announcement should come as no surprise to anyone who knows DeFrancisco.

The former Labour MP's new role may come as a surprise to some, but the pair have known each other for some years as a result of Bono's advocacy work when he was international development secretary under Gordon Brown.

I know this will come as I surprise to many but I had always wondered whether it was all too soon for me to launch this leadership bid — I fear it was.

Imagine my surprise after Chairman Ronk finished reading what may come to be known as his «paperless state of the county» speech last week, I was told there were no copies.

Until a few years ago we only knew of the existence of rings around the giant planets; then, recently, our team discovered that two small bodies situated between Jupiter and Neptune, belonging to a group called centaurs, have dense rings around them, which came as a big surprise.

Although BRCA1's role in tumor initiation is well known, the fact that it also seems to be involved in tumor progression comes as a surprise, says Eliot Rosen, a molecular biologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

That finding came as something of a surprise because LSD is also known to stimulate dopamine receptors, Preller says.

The concepts of contingency and entrenchment were well known to be present in adaptive evolution, but it came as a surprise to the researchers to find them under purifying selection.

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

NPCA's grim assessment comes as no surprise to archaeologists who are working in parks known for their cultural resources.