Sentence examples for Appears astonishing from inspiring English sources

But given that the budget has doubled since 1997, it appears astonishing that there should be any shortfall in funding at all.On December 7th, Sir Nigel Crisp, the chief executive of the NHS, stressed that 70% of health-service trusts have got their finances under control.

The versatility of C. leucoviridis' mimicry appears astonishing at first, given the complexity and species-specificity of Cicadettini songs.

This appears astonishing in respect of their length (30 50 µm) and small diameter (0.2 1 µm) in between the varicose expansions.

This may appear astonishing since the dimensions of the deposited-energy ellipsoid are all comparable to the NP radius.

The BBC's Will Ross in Abuja says it appears somewhat astonishing that the girls cannot be found when there are reports they have been moved around in convoys of vehicles.

New sulfonamides, which appeared with astonishing rapidity, had greater potency, wider antibacterial range, or lower toxicity.

"They found no temples, no colonnades, no statues of civic worthies," says Brown, and initially were "discomfited at having discovered so little". But everywhere they dug, mosaic floors appeared, an astonishing quantity that spanned 500 years from just after the lifetime of Christ to the final destruction of ancient Antioch in the sixth century by earthquakes and Persian invaders.

Biographies appear with astonishing frequency, writer after writer tirelessly examining the same known knowns and the same known unknowns, all obliged to rely on what should be called the speculative tense - "Shakespeare might have stood in this room... " - or the coy historical present: "He sits at his oak table, sharpening his quill... " They should all be subtitled "Climbing Mount Conjecture".

It all appeared, at first, astonishing and miraculous: "It seems like a dream having a child".

Inspired by the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, this urgent, well-made novel charts the boundaries where light becomes shadow, and the known can suddenly appear awful and astonishing.

However, John Ferrett, the Labour group leader on Portsmouth council, criticised the decision to appear as "truly astonishing" at a time when workers were rallying to save 1,000 jobs in the city's shipbuilding yards.