Sentence examples for can be surprised when from inspiring English sources

"We can be surprised when rewatching our everyday gestures.

Who can be surprised, when everywhere we are urged to fight like stray dogs over a dustbin?

And after trains and film shows are introduced to Macondo who can be surprised when the village is subjected to a rain of yellow flowers that covers the streets like a vast carpet, or when a girl is conferred the privilege of assumption, like the Blessed Virgin Mary?

Because the show trusts us to accept the slow development of her feelings, we can be surprised when she, oh, pushes her elderly father down a flight of stairs.

He can hardly be surprised when it is pointed out that Joyce is a Blairite.

"But one can always be surprised when being confronted with situations like New York, Paris, Madrid or London".

When industry reaps all the profit from student loans and the taxpayer has to pick up the losses, how can we be surprised when things turn out badly?

While companies generally disclose what data they keep in little-read privacy statements, consumers can still be surprised when breaches occur.

If people have no ID and no way to get one, we can hardly be surprised when they use the informal (unlicensed) financial system.

"We can hardly be surprised when 10 years down the track it appears even more incomprehensible than I suspect it was to those parliamentarians whose unhappy lot was to scrutinize it at the time it was first enacted," he said.

When that position is written into the GOP platform and is a legislative priority, can we really be surprised when it's further reflected in Republican legislators' comments on rape?