'cause for surprise' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you need to describe something unexpected or astonishing that has happened. For example: "The sudden downturn in the company's sales was a cause for surprise."
This shouldn't be cause for surprise, but it is -- because the great majority of business forecasters have become cheerleaders.
This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original.
Where Genio C. Scott, in "Fishing in American Waters" (1869), describes chain pickerel at such a moment, he says, "You will find cause for surprise that will force you to ejaculate".
Or it may be the interaction with the letters themselves, which are like fish hooked on the cursor, placid for a time before snapping to life and knocking around, a constant cause for surprise and frustration.
Explaining his famous comment that the licence fee was "worse than the poll tax", he said: "It might be naivety, but I have a slight cause for surprise that it was regarded as such a controversial statement.
LONDON — That four productions of "The Nutcracker" have been running here over the holiday period may be little cause for surprise in the United States, where "Nutcracker" ubiquity is entirely accepted.
But the comments were also a cause for some surprise because General Clark has been strongly critical of the Bush administration, saying it has tried to squelch dissent about its policies in Iraq.
It's not going to be just one movie". One cause for optimism: the surprise success of the 2005 Palestinian film "Paradise Now," a tale of two suicide bombers that was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe.
And it's little surprise that Cause for Paws means more to Levitt than any show he's ever produced.
The NRCC is charged with defeating the Democratic congress, so attacks on Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders should not, in general, be cause for too much anger or surprise.
