Sentences with phrase «great surprise to someone»

So it was with great surprise to find out that Bioshock, the spiritual successor to the System Shock universe was not going to include any form of multiplayer CO-OP component.

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.

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.

What a great surprise to visit today and see a recipe for vegan strawberry ice cream!

Stubborn is a word that Arsenal fans have often used to describe our long serving manager so it was no great surprise to hear Arsene Wenger talking about his belief that there is enough strength in depth in the Arsenal squad to be able to cope with the injury picked up by Francis Coquelin at the weekend.

After attempting to fire Brian McDermott before he even got the keys to Elland Road, it wasn't the greatest surprise to see him getting sacked in the summer.

Having now gone six games without a win, the pressure on Louis van Gaal at this moment in time is such that it would be a great surprise to see him turn things around and see...

You question where the goals are going to come from for the Blues without Diego Costa in the line up and all in all, it wouldn't be a great surprise to see this one playing itself out as a score draw.

«It's no great surprise to know that people at senior levels of government hold strong views and debate those,» he added, before insisting his loyalty prevented him from revealing these concerns at the time.

Marijn Franx, a member of the team from the University of Leiden highlights: «The discovery of GN - z11 was a great surprise to us, as our earlier work had suggested that such bright galaxies should not exist so early in the Universe.»

«This is a very fundamental behavior that we have never been seen before; it was a great surprise to us,» said study author and professor of physics Cheng Chin.

«This report will be a great surprise to physicians dealing with LDD» because it was thought that the condition was caused by a defect in the matrix proteins themselves, says Junya Toguchida, a geneticist at Kyoto University in Japan.

This year I felt like having birthday for a second time: It was such a great surprise to see the postman standing in front of the door with a parcel from Bulgari in his hands!

That's no great surprise to anyone, I don't think, not least because I've already mentioned them above.

Among the Christmas gifts I've ordered for family, and friends, it was a great surprise to receive my Stitch Fix box.

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Hi Rachel, What a great surprise to find you featuring my Mexican Bread Pudding, I am honored.

What a great surprise to see Christina Aguilera, she's always great!

The director's brother Tony Gilroy is himself a writer / director and has worked with composer James Newton Howard on several occasions, Michael Clayton, Duplicity and The Bourne Legacy, so it's no great surprise to find the family connection leading to the composer cropping up here too.

If you're a DC fan you know who I am talking about and since I am a DC fan it was a great surprise to see these guys as playable characters.

Either way, Dennison clearly has a great amount of comedic talent, and it's a great surprise to see the 14 year old on Reynold's back staring into their bright future.

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?

It isn't a great surprise to see these commercially - minded butt - breakers sign up for the big bucks — after all Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Bruce Willis made a hefty mint out of the Planet Hollywood restaurant franchise.

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.

It was a great surprise to find it here on the site.

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.

Currently trading on 22.9 x FY - 2014 guidance (of $ 2.125), ICON looks fairly over-valued to me — but with US big pharma stocks generally back in favour, and the biotech sector on fire, it's no great surprise to see a high valuation here also.

So it was a great surprise to me when I completed my first marathon in 3 hours and 47 minutes.

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.

The tear often occurs due to a rotational stress on the knee joint — and the injury is typically a great surprise to both the patient and the client.

That's why it came to great surprise to his family when they found out the one, little (VERY BIG) problem.

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.

Mad Max is a treasured movie series, and it was a great surprise to see the recent Mad Max: Fury Road reboot turn out to be pretty damn good.

So it was a great surprise to hear that Square - Enix were releasing a lengthy demo for it.

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.

What a great surprise to see this was your post.

«So it was a great surprise to me that it came out.»

None of this should be of any great surprise to either climate scientists or European city chiefs.

(51) This was a great surprise to everyone.