It has been premiered to mixed reviews, including criticism of a weak plot, and this is not really surprising. |
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For a guy who has jealously guarded his privacy, the film's frankness is surprising. |
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Service to start with was very slow, although not surprising when you have 2 waiters for a full restaurant. |
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That this quality is rarely discerned in his other signed paintings is hardly surprising, given the restricted subject matter of those works. |
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I am, of course, not suggesting that I find this degree of learnedness surprising in a biologist. |
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But more surprising is the number of independent people wanting to take on such a responsible position. |
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That surprising, sinking, excited feeling may be the essence of thought as felt experience, rather than as bare abstraction. |
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An accomplished pianist, Edward Said wrote some of the most surprising and sharp essays on music. |
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Using jabs to keep the bigger man at bay and hard rights to stun him time after time, Ellis handled Bonavena with surprising ease. |
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This is all the more surprising considering his brutality, corruption and human rights abuses were virtually unparalleled. |
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Coming from a patriarchal society, the responses to such questionnaires are interesting, if not very surprising. |
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It was uncomplicated to prepare and surprising toothsome to a die-hard meat muncher. |
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Given Cox's past, it is hardly surprising he acquired such coping mechanisms. |
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Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising. |
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That's hardly surprising given the salt spray and leaky roof in the current place. |
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In such a situation, it is not surprising that people will resort to desperate measures. |
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Therefore, it's not surprising when a gifted producer tries to take a star turn on the other side of the boards. |
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Delving into zydeco music and with a surprising new lyrical approach, Graceland was a highly successful musical experiment. |
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Then the boy struggled and resisted in a most surprising manner considering that he was clearly violating the law. |
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However, the losses in market value are distributed unevenly, with some regions showing a surprising resilience to the market upheaval. |
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What's the most surprising thing you learned about lobsters while researching your book? |
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It is not surprising therefore that, before 1919, anarchism was more popular than socialism among young radicals. |
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This provides some kind of explanation for the apparently surprising properties of the laws of nature mentioned above. |
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Most surprising were reports about intellectual repression that students were experiencing. |
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This was a surprising result as we expected that women multiple repeaters would be relatively unresponsive to such a simple intervention. |
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It isn't surprising that so many intelligent men and women seem to have renounced passionate commitment, opting instead for the single life. |
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On the other hand, it would be surprising if they had equal levels of ambition. |
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It was amazing to see who landed the roles, and even more surprising who caught on with audiences. |
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In a surprising reversal of roles, a third of the children even give their parents a regular allowance! |
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For this reason it is not surprising that porcelain was far more often depicted in paintings than was lacquerware. |
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While initially these findings may seem surprising, a few moments' reflection reveals that they actually ring true. |
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It is not surprising that Europeans are prepared to pay a considerable amount to reduce the risk of such a change. |
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Looked on from this angle, European politicians' perception that the two values are reconcilable is surprising. |
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The new Mori Art Center, to be built on top of a Tokyo skyscraper, is surprising on a number of counts. |
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It will not be surprising if all football activities are put on hold because of these ongoing squabbles. |
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It's a strong, surprising show that holds everyone's interest and makes us forget the penetrating chill of the building. |
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Instead, they explain that all humans have wills and desires, and it should not be surprising that infants also express theirs. |
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This is not surprising given the warm winter and early spring, said Larry McHale, West Vancouver supervisor for forestry, trails and wildfire. |
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It is always so surprising to arrive at a populated town after travelling through such uninhabitable, wild terrain. |
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This isn't surprising, though, since attending church is like going to the theatre. |
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There are also a surprising number of people who wouldn't recognize a joke if it walked up and slapped them on the keister. |
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It is often surprising how one drive might not read a DVD, but another has no problem with it. |
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It's not surprising that they would exhume him now to serve his usual role as facilitator of GOP criminal ravishment. |
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It was a rattling good adventure story that kept me gripped to the surprising end. |
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For someone with such an affinity for the natural world, it's not surprising to discover that another passion of Baxter is conservation. |
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This is hardly surprising, since the white man's burden has long been recognized as an excuse for the most vile exploitation. |
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The high disparity of young juveniles may seem surprising given the perception that embryos and larvae are typically more similar than adults. |
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This is the most surprising number they've yet come up with and I hope one that will prove and justify their longevity and popularity. |
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A surprising number of optic injuries are caused by bungee cords, sparks from using tools or jump-starting a car, or from flying champagne corks. |
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The Westie is a wonderful breed, scoring big on the Cute-O-Meter, with buckets of surprising intelligence to boot. |
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Long after the conversation is over, this is what jumps out as the most surprising. |
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The claim by Western experts that palmistry originated in India is not surprising. |
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Her nose twitched to the surprising aroma of sliced vegetables, scented herbs, juicy sauces, and chopped beef. |
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Matter and antimatter just don't mix, so it's surprising that you can probe one with the other. |
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Santi and Itti are a pair of compelling, well matched leads with surprising twists and turns to their characters. |
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I nearly dozed, although I did notice a surprising amount of female laughter in the audience. |
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Other highlights include a surprising fade to black followed by an agonizing wait until a crucial plot event is revealed. |
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In fact, the American landscape occasionally yields surprising revelations of continuity. |
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I admit that I proceeded with a heavy heart to read this weighty tome, but confess that I found each chapter pleasantly surprising. |
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Anthozoans are readily available on coral reefs therefore it's not surprising that anthozoan tissue is their main diet. |
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The parallels between race relations and gender relations are sometimes surprising. |
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The BBC website warns that the webcast may be intermittent, which is barely surprising. |
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Less surprising is the large number of schoolmasters, top public school headmasters, college fellows and masters, and university professors. |
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He dodges after the fat kid, who, with surprising adroitness, double-feints and legs it back into the bar. |
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When the last of the Christmas leftovers are gone, it's surprising what can be made from the contents of an empty cupboard. |
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It's hardly surprising that Federal Reserve policymakers now keep a weather eye on the stock market. |
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Time was when being Prime Minister carried acres of responsibility with a surprising amount of free time. |
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Moreover the public interest may be as much involved in the circumstances of a remarkable acquittal as in a surprising conviction. |
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Speculation on a move had died down recently, making yesterday's announcement all the more surprising. |
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It is not surprising that raw material acquisition was directed toward specific taxa. |
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The recognition that the life he rejected is the advantaged life is surprising. |
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It is not surprising then that the young Abdurrahman was encouraged to debate ideas and issues and to read widely in his father's extensive library. |
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But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned men not only do not notice it for themselves, but they contest every exposure of the harm and stupidity of patriotism with the greatest obstinacy and ardour, though without any rational grounds; and they continue to belaud it as beneficent and elevating. |
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You also had a pretty uncomfortable costume in The Addams Family, which is surprising, since your performance feels so effortless. |
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Given this sort of language, it is not surprising that Adler watched soap operas voraciously for a period of two and a half years. |
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Nothing especially surprising there, except that she kept opening the door instead of leaving it ajar while cleaning. |
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And so, with a surprising suddenness, it has recently bloomed up among Republicans and Democrats alike. |
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With 24 percent unemployment in north Amiens, it's not surprising things get tense. |
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In some ways, the rapid spread of the virus there should not be surprising. |
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Even as Hispanics favored Democrats this week, some Republicans wooed them ardently and made surprising inroads. |
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This was very blunt and surprising to hear from any official in charge of an aviation disaster. |
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But what this show proves is that, even at his most automotive, chamberlain achieved a surprising range of effects and meanings. |
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Walk up and see the most surprising performance in the whole fair, by the three brothers, from the Caribbean Islands of which I am a native myself. |
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Communal life can abrade some of the rough edges of a person, the monks agreed, but in communal living you also learn surprising things about yourself. |
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There appears no appetite for introducing such a law and given this government's general wariness about upsetting businesses that is not surprising. |
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Even more surprising is the way we quench our feelings of guilt. |
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I was jolted out of my thoughts by something rather surprising. |
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Since engineers rule the world, it's not surprising they claim they've got a solution to everything including the best alternative to welds, nuts, rivets and bolts. |
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It was never conceived as a legal doctrine that could be argued or adjudicated by any court, so it's hardly surprising that terra nullius was such an obscure concept. |
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This sort of reckless intellectual adventurism is not surprising, coming as it does from someone who affected surprise that rising petrol prices have an effect on the economy. |
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Given white Louisianians' frequent use of beatings, whippings, and lynchings, it should not be surprising that African Americans also resorted to aggressive tactics. |
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The rise in those affiliating to the live register during a summer month is surprising, considering that summer seasonal work usually causes a decrease in these figures. |
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More surprising still, the spirit addressed the courtiers by their real names. |
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It's perhaps surprising to find what an engaging and crafty writer Rob Lowe, the handsome Brat Packer, has turned out to be. |
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As Finnish is an agglutinative language, it is not surprising that inflectional difficulties were shown to be the first impairment marker among at-risk children. |
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But even in the world crouse described, there was still some surprising ideological, economic, and cultural diversity. |
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Indeed, retail sales rebounded with surprising strength in October. |
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That might seem surprising considering the company is awash in red ink. |
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What is more surprising is that hard-working people so often shrug their shoulders and accept that the work-shy are entitled to what they can get off the state. |
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Of course, calling Descartes the first nerd grossly ignores his personal refinement, elegant prose style, sly wit, even his surprising career as a soldier of fortune. |
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It is surprising the number of editors that have accepted work shot on these little cameras thinking that the pictures were taken with a larger single lens reflex camera. |
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So the results of the Scopes primary are in, and they are, in a way, not surprising. |
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This is a remarkable and lamentable failure of modern scholarship, and it exposes some surprising and unacceptable things about modern academic practice. |
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It was surprising to find, however, that the earliest migrants were both more likely to send remittances and to send higher amounts of remittances. |
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Their ability to find a dual citizen here they could recruit and run is in many ways not surprising. |
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Hollywood and the media promote positive images of older people, but it would be surprising if society's stereotypes of beauty were to be reoriented towards images of old age. |
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They zinged us pretty good with a genuinely creative and surprising plan involving planes and important symbols of capitalism, but what are they going to do now? |
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The degree of completeness of the combinatorial system in the most anciently arisen living vertebrates to possess the combinatorial immune response was surprising. |
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Nor is it surprising that the employer of the accused has neither fired the alleged perpetrator nor denounced the trial. |
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For while they may appear every inch the middle-class professional, there is a growing chance a surprising secret lurks beneath the respectable clothing. |
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It is not surprising that, correspondingly, it has often been Anglo-Catholicism that has been skeptical of the actions and stance of the establishment. |
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She was not wearing hejab but more surprising that that, is married to an Englishman. |
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She was not wearing hejab, but more surprising that that, is married to an Englishman. |
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In 1947, many leftist filmmakers were treated as outlaws, and it's not surprising that they made some of their best films from the point of view of criminals. |
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That would seem to be a very anomalous surprising kind of result. |
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Shannon Donnelly on the genre's surprising comeback and why viewers are flocking to escapist fare. |
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This is especially striking, though hardly surprising, in the case of Priebus, Mr. Outreach. |
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The Deputy Planning Officer's report begins with a surprising revelation. |
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But even more surprising than the evilness of these characters is their outrageous lack of subtlety. |
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The space landscape emerges in surprising ways as the rhombs get placed. |
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Here's one amending a surprising quote from the editor of The New Yorker. |
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After a fast, lively start from Alicea, Hamed suffered a surprising brief knockdown in round 1, the first of his career. |
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It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty! |
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But the De profundis has only eight verses and so it is not surprising that all of it should have been adapted. |
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What was most surprising for you when you went to East Germany? |
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However, even the lowest characters, such as the Miller, show surprising rhetorical ability, although their subject matter is more lowbrow. |
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It's not surprising that she was enlisted to litigate for former Vice President Al Gore after the 2000 election. |
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The Whitsunday Islands are also home to a surprising number of cave paintings. |
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Given the low ebb of spirituality in Oxford at that time, it was not surprising that Wesley's group provoked a negative reaction. |
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It is then not surprising that the absence of quality time is often the reason for the downfall of the strategy. |
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Was that surprising to you as someone coming from a cinematic background? |
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On a perhaps more frivolous note, another quality of Britton's work that makes his undeserved obscurity so surprising is its eminent quotability. |
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Now he's a worldbeater, it's not surprising that he says he finds the new adulation of fans hard to handle. |
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Equally surprising was a Greenland White-fronted Goose on Llandudno's Bodafon Fields over the weekend. |
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This eventuality would not be surprising if the world ash was, at the time, a small young tree. |
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She has always been known as a capable wordsmith, but in this latest novel she also shows surprising emotional depth. |
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What was surprising, though, was the blunt and unstuffy way in which he held up his hands. |
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The breakdown of the estimates given in this work into the modern populations of Britain is both interesting and surprising. |
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It appears surprising to moderns that so important a matter might be settled by one and his friends falsely swearing an oath. |
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Then in January 1932, Feather drew Chadwick's attention to another surprising result. |
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The organization had been running on fumes for months, so it's not surprising that they closed their doors. |
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Given the enigmatic nature of Sartor Resartus, it is not surprising that it first achieved little success. |
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Is is not surprising then that no text identifies Shen Buhai with penal law. |
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He reckoned the distance without any instruments or maps with surprising accuracy. |
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Such findings offer surprising new evidence for the possible existence of dominant archetypal themes in our lives. |
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Being the oldest Germanic language with any significant literature, it is not surprising that Gothic preserves the strong verbs best. |
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Ferdinand was abandoned by all and also had to escape, and the Kingdom of Naples was conquered with surprising ease. |
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The English army captured the completely unguarded Caen in just one day, surprising the French. |
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Robinson had tried to keep the change a secret in the hope of surprising the Welsh and giving them no time to adjust their gameplan. |
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Two years later, Guthrum again attacked Alfred, surprising him by attacking his forces wintering in Chippenham. |
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In all this, Cadamosto's narrative evinces a degree of honest curiosity and absence of prejudice perhaps surprising for a European of that era. |
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Some babies never posset at all. Others do so with surprising ease, and this can be quite a cause of concern to parents. |
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Their success came with surprising ease, but it was not until 548 that the major local tribes were subdued. |
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It would therefore not be surprising if unambiguous bahuvrihi morphology were to be used occasionally in a governing compound. |
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Up above however, and at close quarters, they afford the clamberer a surprising number of secret joys. |
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With this much grunt, it is surprising that the engine is relatively quiet. |
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There has never been any proof of islanders wrecking, but given how harsh their lives were it would not be surprising. |
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It is not that they made some mistakes that is surprising, but that they did so much right in circumstances of the greatest possibly difficulty. |
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Harriers hunt by surprising prey while flying low to the ground in open areas, as they drift low over fields and moors. |
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Leeds is also a popular nightlife destination domestically, which is not surprising given its accessibility and central location. |
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It also sometimes had surprising organic shapes, copied after snails and cobras. |
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Given the fact that there are upwards of 120 repertories in homoeopathy it is surprising that not a lot has been written about the use of them. |
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Beth Orton has latched her acoustica onto the Chemical Brothers electronica with surprising results. |
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The partial degradation of the tube and its encapsulation were surprising findings, and we believe they are consistent with prolonged retainment. |
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It might be surprising that the writers of Borat, A Hard Day's Night, and Cool Hand Luke were. |
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Matches are contested over legs rather than sets, presenting the prospect of some surprising results and upsets. |
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Many attacks by brown bears are the result of surprising the animal, which is not the case with the polar bear. |
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Unique flight cams show the trajectory of the dart through the air in slow motion to sometimes surprising results. |
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This is not surprising since the PFM veneer that has leucite reinforcing crystals that improve fracture toughness. |
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This was surprising, as Button was enjoying his best season to date, while Williams had been struggling. |
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Its short hind legs give a most ungainly gait, though it runs with surprising speed when pursued. Its unearthly howl adds to its despicability. |
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But in the context of Fact being a pioneering, forward-looking organisation, it is surprising they did not chose a patron whose career was in the ascendent. |
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Given the long history of a visible and politically active LGBT community in San Francisco, the city's ranking at the top of this list is not surprising. |
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This image must have had some basis in truth, but it is not very surprising that the later Visigoths of Iberia had fallen away from Salvian's somewhat idealistic picture. |
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Brotherly affection was likely at a minimum, but this was hardly surprising, considering that Domitian had barely seen Titus after the age of seven. |
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Since the company was new and had only started advertising two weeks before the research began, it was not surprising to see low unaided awareness of the brand. |
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Since then, Zairean rebels have marched with surprising ease across one-fifth of the country, culminating with the capture Saturday of Zaire's third-largest city, Kisangani. |
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His 2007 announcement was seen by some as a surprising adoption of the importance of the symbolic aspects of the reconciliation process, and reaction was mixed. |
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In a surprising move, Government had recommended Sachin's name along with Bollywood actress Rekha and businesswoman Anu Aga as the nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. |
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Their first Olympian Games, a national event, held in 1866 at The Crystal Palace, London, was a surprising success and attracted a crowd of over ten thousand people. |
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That daily tides should be caused by full moons and new moons is manifestly wrong, which would be a surprising view in a Greek astronomer and mathematician of the times. |
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This is a surprising finding since the bandmixing has an even larger influence on the strength of the photocurrents than the absorption coefficient. |
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Davidson notes that these results are somewhat surprising because this intervention knocks down the mutant proteins by only about 60 percent, making the payoff remarkable. |
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Given the scope of the negative outcomes associated with juvenile firesetting, it is surprising that there is so little empirical study of this behaviour. |
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The syntheticism does much to nudge Pederson's project from wispiness to a more trenchant expression of uncertainty, with a surprising degree of staying power. |
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Only six teams from nonpower conferences received at-large bids, a surprising development in one of the more unpredictable N.C.A.A. tournament unveilings in recent years. |
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This fact is surprising and we wonder how can Spanish people differentiate between Romanian and Romist Do they know Romi or Romanian, or are they based on stereotypes? |
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For one thing, it would bore me and for another, it would lack the 'verve' and the extraordinary touches and surprising ideas that flood out from my imagination. |
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The next year he was elected Reader of Lyon's Inn for three years, something surprising considering his young age and likely related to his conduct in Lord Cromwell's Case. |
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When it reported in 1908, it took a strongly hereditarian view of mental deficiency, which was not surprising given that many of its members were paid-up eugenists. |
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It would not be surprising that a great calamity is truly imminent with much wailing and gnashing of teeth not unlike the exodus out of Egypt into the land of milk and honey. |
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The Kingdom of Benin, for instance, participated in the African slave trade, at will, from 1715 to 1735, surprising Dutch traders, who had not expected to buy slaves in Benin. |
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Shelley possessed a keen interest in science at Eton, which he would often apply to cause a surprising amount of mischief for a boy considered to be so sensible. |
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So it's not surprising that Terry McCabe's theatrically assured, combustibly comic staging is superior to Borealis Theatre's revival two months ago. |
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The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride. |
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Artistic, surprising people especially welcome, relentless yuppettes not. |
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Side-step skin pitfalls by avoiding these surprising skin sabotagers. |
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Hence, Marx's influence on antimilitarist doctrine was not surprising, although making Marx accountable for the antimilitarist tradition is a large overstatement. |
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This is surprising given that reasoning ability is a central subconstruct within the structure of IQ. Where IQ scores have been covaried, results have been inconsistent. |
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When it comes to strong aftershaves like Brut or Old Spice these can be remembered from childhood and it's not surprising aftershave reminds people of dad. |
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Just three months on and it's surprising to learn saddlesore Mark is back on his bike and spends up to three hours a day training for his next event. |
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Therefore it is not surprising that little lakelore has developed and that most of the fertility ceremonies are connected with agriculture and almost none with fishing. |
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The author is a bioinformatician, so it is perhaps not surprising that his discussions of informatic technologies and genome databases are particularly lively and informative. |
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