The phrase "as much surprised" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically intended to express a degree of surprise but is not commonly used in this form.
Example: "I was as much surprised by the news as everyone else in the room."
Alternatives: "equally surprised" or "just as surprised."
Scientists as much surprised as Roxbury trustees.
"My friends, I am just as much surprised at being here as you are to see me here," he said.
They are just as much surprised to find that the people waiting for them and helping them are Jewish, and not just Jewish -- but from Israel.
The Roosevelt leaders say that B. M. Baruch of New York acted as liaison between the "stop Roosevelt" faction and Mr. McAdoo and was as much surprised and disappointed as they when the former Secretary of the Treasury became the instrument of Mr. Roosevelt's nomination.
The rankings hold as much surprise as a McDonald's menu.
They hardly come as much surprise; indeed, most were publicised at the time.
9.07am GMT 52nd over: South Africa 172-7 (De Villiers 73, Philander 6) De Villiers takes a quick single off Harris, taking Philander by as much surprise as anyone.
That Maugham was, to use his own terminology, three-quarters queer will most likely provoke about as much surprise as Ricky Martin's recent announcement that he is "a fortunate homosexual man".
They found out I was a world champion, and they said, 'We're doing it in sumo also.' " Often there is as much surprise as pride, if not more.
The fact that the party garnered so many column inches so quickly shouldn't come as much surprise: the combination of two media types and a celebrity luvvy was never going to struggle in getting their initiative noticed.
It probably doesn't come as much surprise that Gallup's registered voter model was, by my calculation, near where the likely voter sample should have been, based on other pre-election firms' samples: about 74-74.574-74.5%.
