Sentences with phrase «something of a shock»

So it will come as something of a shock when parliament returns next week and we will be obliged to look at specific issues in detail.

They told me all of my shocks were bad, causing all of the problems, and that they would not be able to align the front end with those bad shocks.

If anything, after the confidence inspired on the way into the corner, it's then something of a shock once you start using the steering wheel in anger.

The difficulties of this time period are tough to imagine and are always something of a shock to read about.

This came as something of a shock to party members, who have been having a whale of a time in recent days.

Audi's withdrawal came as something of a shock at the time, and it seems the team weren't exactly expecting it either, otherwise the design of the 2017 car surely wouldn't have got so far.

The youngster can play as part of a two man strike pairing but more often than not plays out wide as part of a front three and the Barca man has 39 goals over the past season and a half and whilst it would clearly be something of a shock for Arsene Wenger to persuade the player to move to the Emirates it appears he is still very much a target.

it emerged in April that Newgate Communications managing partner Simon Nayyar, one of the better - known figures in the UK lobbying industry, had left the firm in something of a shock departure.

So it came as something of a shock when Nintendo did not take the opportunity at E3 to announce U.S. releases for these two games.

Though Laurent Blanc's side have eased to victories in their opening two Ligue 1 fixtures without Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is recovering from a knee injury, it is still something of a shock that PSG would consider offloading such a crucial member of their Parc des Princes squad.

The news came as something of a shock given Lacazette's 25 - minute cameo in the 1 - 0 defeat to Tottenham on Saturday, with the striker not appearing to be in any discomfort during the match.

The words of ex-professionals this week have been poignant and important in reminding us of the shocking abuse he faced along with others.

The 27 year old cost Chelsea # 23.8 m in January and the South American struggled to adapt to life in the Premier League but it would still be something of a shock if the West London side would be considering offers for the wide - man so soon after his arrival.

Also look at the bigger picture Wolves were coming off the back of two straight wins and full of confidence and perhaps could have pulled off something of a shock result but now have suffered a defeat and if I were a fan of the other sides chasing for the title I would be a little peeved that McCarthy didn't try to get something from the game, after all Burnley didn't decide to admit defeat when they took on Manchester United at home earlier in the season, and they won!

The Romanian international recently emerged as something of a shock target for the Gunners, with these two north London rivals not known for selling to each other, despite a few notable and controversial exceptions throughout history.

After all this cherry - picking, it came as something of a shock on Thursday night to see West Twenty - Fourth Street engulfed by masses of people who came out for just a few openings: Alighiero Boetti at Gladstone, Trevor Paglen at Metro Pictures, and Jean - Michel Basquiat at Gagosian.

This painting, like other Ofili works, rested against the wall of the gallery on roundels of hardened elephant dung, which became something of a shock - horror obsession in the newspaper coverage.

Fiona Banner's show comes as something of a shock after this, not least because of her calculated, almost abrasive, remorseless yet dispassionate tone of voice.

Again and again residents told us of their shock at the news that the school their families had attended for generations was being handed over to an outside charter company without meaningful consultation.Many hadn't even heard the news.

They told me all of my shocks were bad, causing all of the problems, and that they would not be able to align the front end with those bad...

So, it must come as something of a shock when she makes it to old age, despite the copious use of drugs and alcohol (the welcome playing of «One Night in Bangkok» is entirely appropriate), which she never prepared for, encapsulating the very ephemeral nature of life, just as her writing still lives on.

We've known Mercedes - Benz would offer a pickup for some time, but it's still something of a shock to see it in the metal - and these two concepts give us some idea of how the production vehicle will look.

The 25 year old DR Congo international has been in fine form of late but a move by the Gunners for the Eagles wide - man would still be something of a shock given the options available to Arsene Wenger in his current squad set - up.

When the receptors were activated by a pulse of laser light, the animals immediately froze, though there were no cues, visual or otherwise, to remind them of the shock.

Under Investigation — It has just been announced that the private banking arm of HSBC is now under investigation in France for alleged wrong doing, and whilst this would in normal circumstances be something of a shock for investors, it does seem to be part and parcel of the current day to day banking news headlines for one bank or another to be under investigation for some form of past wrong doing.

However, in something of a shock, the plastics across the dash and door tops are poor for a VW — especially one with prices that could rise as high as # 40,000.

Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, which was based on Edith Wharton's 1920 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel about illicit romantic desire thwarted by the rigid social strictures of the New York upper crust during the Gilded Age, came as something of a shock when it was released in 1993.

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It must come as something of a shock to many of these people to realize that over the last yen years the bulk of his time has been spent in a ministry whose chief work is preaching, baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, teaching, counseling the troubled, comforting the sick and bereaved.

It would appear to be something of a shock, not to say disappointment, to The Tablet's mindset, but a Catholic who has acted against Church teaching does not necessarily join that magazine in attempting to justify their action through dissent.

The idea that this planted in my mind was the realization, which came as something of a shock, that not all the supreme values pursued by mankind now and in the past were necessarily compatible with one another.

This is quite a claim — and for those of us who are amateurs in the field of political science, accustomed to using tyranny, fascism, dictatorship, and totalitarianism interchangeably — something of a shock.

While Newcastle residing in the lower half of the table isn't a great surprise this term, to see the Magpies joining Tottenham at the very foot of the division is something of a shock.

It was a typically crazy race, and the unreliability of the LMP1 cars definitely came as something of a shock.

The move is something of shock, as Andersen had only been in Madison for two years and had the program running fairly smoothly.

TheGiallorossi paid close to $ 31m after fees were taken into account only 18 months ago for the once - dubbed Paraguayan Messi and so for the 22 - year - old to be moving to the newly promoted Cherries comes as something of a shock.

That might come as little surprise to the DaddiLife community, but the revelation can still be something of a shock to the wider public.

So many mums say they would never have managed to carry on breastfeeding had they not discovered Lansinoh, especially in the early days when feeding is something of a shock to your tender nipples!

This might come as something of a shock to some of the writers in the Guardian.

It came as something of a shock, therefore, when Carey tested the conventional wisdom against empirical evidence.

For a father as doting on his daughter as Sir Philip Green, the discovery she is dating a «violent criminal» must have come as something of a shock.

For viewers who are au fait with recent animation and fairy tale adaptations aimed at young children, Cinderella may come as something of a shock.

After 2013's disastrous biopic Diana, starring Naomi Watts, it was something of a shock that filmmaker Olivier Dahan soldiered on to make Grace of Monaco, starring Watt's best pal Nicole Kidman.

That would be Sarah Polley's «Stories We Tell,» an invigorating powerhouse of a personal documentary that was so adventurous and compelling that its absence from the final five was something of a shock.

But where Bafta has no problem nominating public school chaps like Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch, it rates as something of a shock that it has turned a blind eye to Selma's lead David Oyelowo, a British actor who went to an Islington comprehensive.