Sentences with phrase «slight surprise»

There is one slight surprise for Arsenal fans in the starting line up of Arsene Wenger today, although the use of our England international left back Kieran Gibbs in a more advanced role on front of the Spaniard Nacho Monreal has been tried before and with a fair amount of success, although it is normally a move made by the manager to shore things up at the end of a game.

The brief moment of slight surprise.

The other slight surprise is the preference of Debuchy to Bellerin at right back, with the youngster not even making the bench.

It's still arguably a slight surprise that it's these two individuals that he may be looking at signing as some would argue that he should be looking at more ambitious targets, especially considering the figures being touted.

The German international is obviously aware that a «top international club» wants him, and no - one would be in the slightest surprised if Arsenal was that club, given Wenger's ongoing admiration.

Granit Xhaka was a slight surprise to find himself on the bench, and it could be argued that he may well have helped to break up the Man United dominance in the second half, but no such complaints could be made before the interval, and some tactic changes from the Red Devils may have been to blame for our early failings after the break.

Another slight surprise to me is that Gabriel keeps his place ahaed of the BFG, but that could well be due to the way their pacy attack with Long and Mane gave us problems in the awagame on Boxing Day.

Coutinho was the obvious change, coming back from his one match suspension but the other three were all slight surprises in one way or another.

When it announced that he was signing for Atlético de Kolkata in the Indian Super League, it was a slight surprise.

However the news of his nuptials come as a slight surprise.

It happening already 2,200 years ago was, however, a slight surprise,» says Göran Englund.

This might come as a slight surprise.

I'm focusing on three black - based pieces suitable for any of you who are devoted to minimalism with a slight surprise in details, all by my beloved brand Paige.

A slight surprise for Telluride, as this isn't in the TIFF line - up, but the film's opening slot at the LFF is only billed as the «European Premiere,» so it was bound to turn up somewhere.

It was a slight surprise to see Quentin Tarantino take the Oscar for Best Script, simply because Mark Boal was the favored nominee for The Hurt Locker.

This comes as a slight surprise as some have suggested that the new Prius would be delayed in order to accommodate a last second redesign.

Many expected a concession by Amazon in the form of an EPUB - compatible upgrade, and this comes as a slight surprise — but it's a natural evolution of the format, really, and of course everyone is already familiar with the toolset.

To my slight surprise, these figures don't look completely mad, though I suspect the income of the top 2 % is materially overstated.

So yes, that was a slight surprise to me.

Housing conditions have been blamed widely for those deaths, and given that I used to work for a housing charity in Scotland this is not in the slightest surprising — we have many thousands of properties which are below tolerable standard, hard or impossible to heat, with single - glazed windows in rotting window frames, draughty doors, and above all extreme condensation and rising damp (and they are dreadfully unhealthy in a mild, wet, windy winter too).

There is not the slightest surprise that certain political types want more of the kind of polemic that Donna produces.

This means — to climatologists» slight surprise — melting of the Antarctic ice sheets likely contributed the majority of the Eemian sea level rise.

The layout of this one is a slight surprise as we assumed the extra space would be used for more rooms.