Sentences with phrase «slight surprise for»

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.

Not exact matches

D'Angelo took a 14 - year hiatus before releasing his most recent album Black Messiah and while waiting nearly 15 years for new music is, at this point, all we can expect from D'Angelo, we have the slightest hunch he may be surprising us with a new album this year.

For anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to the factors shaping today's foodservice industry, none of these consumer attributes should come as a surprise.

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

Alex Garland's script for this return to Mega City One is lazy and derivative: the characters are slight and the twists unconvincing, while a presumably accidental but highly conspicuous similarity to the plot of this year's «The Raid» robs it of any sense of surprise.

It nevertheless goes without saying that Waitress carves out a place for itself as a likeable endeavor that stands as a fitting farewell for Shelly, with the actress - turned - director's surprising decision to eschew certain conventions of the romantic - comedy genre elevating the movie a slight degree above its similarly - themed brethren.

Indeed, it is surprising to find that three scribes are responsible for the slight story, with Leslie Bohem (Dante's Peak) and M.T. Ahern's creation further developed by screenwriter Jon Spaihts (the upcoming Prometheus).

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.

So I'm not surprised — but still dismayed — that... UFT would not accept even the slightest responsibility for its abysmal failure to provide children with a great education.»

You might also occasionally hear a slight grinding noise from the standard carbon - composite brakes, a small price to pay for serious bite, resistance to fading, and (surprise) excellent pedal modulation.

It's no surprise, then, that the company produced a similar clip for the new Vantage S, which appears to outperform the N420 by a slight margin.

There's a slight granularity to the image that makes individual pixels more visible than they should be, which is surprising when the resolution of this tablet is at the top end of what's currently available for under a # 1000.

Don't be surprised if your veterinarian notices physical signs that you did not; you are not a trained professional and can not be expected to notice the slight physical differences that vets are trained to look for.

That slight moment of fear and surprise multiplies for dogs that don't understand why they're being handled.

Such a reaction is hardly surprising and by no means a slight on Xander Davis himself: though many of us claim a deep passion for gaming, how many of us actually do bother to read the credits for games?

The attention to detail is quite surprising for an expansion like this and many subtle feelings of bike racing are present in the game right down to the slight bounce of the front wheel on a stoppie.

For example, in terms of fly behaviour with a corpse, the ebb and flow of their presence with the slightest change in the air temperature was really surprising to witness.

The grace, wit, and inventiveness of his pattern - making, the lively and surprising elegance of his line, and his sensitivity to the character, the idiosyncratic humors, of light make Penn's pictures, even the slighter ones, a pleasure for our eyes.

Derry - born artist Willie Doherty - who was nominated for the prize in 1994 and 2003 - said it was «fantastic news», but said it didn't surprise him in the slightest.

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).

What is happening here is that the two (Hansen and Trenberth) whom you describe as «not, in fact, fanatics blinded by dogma» were surprised by the recent «lack of warming» (i.e. slight cooling) of the atmosphere as well as the upper ocean, despite CO2 increase to record levels, as this does not provide much support for the premise that human CO2 is driving our climate.

In any event, it would not be surprising to find a slight downward trend for sea ice as the late 1970s came at the end of a decades - long period of slight global cooling.

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

Apart from this the slight surface temperature rise should surprise no - one; earlier research (2004, S. Baidya Roy and S. W. Pacala) has shown a similar effect and if looked for, it probably would be found downwind of any tall structure that causes turbulence, such as grain silos.

We'll see if that conflict still arises when it gets chilly enough to need the space heater — but for now, except for the slight uptick in range anxiety, I've been pleasantly surprised at the cold weather experience.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the destabilization depth for methane in near 0 degree C temps is 200 meters, so the statement that I have seen here and elsewhere that the methane hydrate is at that depth should not surprise us and should not lead us to think that it is therefore stable — it is right on the edge of destabilizing, any even slight amount of warming will do so.

The author, Alex Randall, describes the paper as «measured and robust», which is a surprising thing to say about research that blamed a long - term, but slight decline in rainfall in Iran for social unrest in Syria, but as someone once said «Hey, it's climate science».

Speaking to the Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Justice last week, Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, said: «To our surprise and gratification and to some of my more traditional colleagues» slight embarrassment, we learnt last year that the UK Supreme Court had been awarded four and half stars out of a maximum five by Trip Advisor — which I have just checked we still maintain.»

A surprise for me was the «Gender» entry, which suggests that men have a slight advantage over women (just +0.5 points) because they are considered more emotionally stable.

After a somewhat surprising early - summer cool down, and the slight bounce - back we spoke about in August's real estate update for Snoqualmie Ridge, it appears we've picked up momentum again, as homes sales for pre-owned, single - family homes in August jumped up, with more closings than we've seen in over a year!

«Given no major surprise in the data, the national outlook for real estate market remains essentially unchanged, with home sales expected to squeak out slight gains in 2016 and 2017 while commercial building vacancy rates should continue to fall,» said NAR Chief Economist, Dr. Lawrence Yun.