Sentence examples for cause some surprises from inspiring English sources

"The South American sides will cause some surprises.

The prime minister's decision to highlight the need for "hard military force" to remove Assad may cause some surprise as he lost a parliamentary vote in August 2013 that was designed to lead to military strikes against the Assad regime.

But she still thinks her decision to come out will cause some surprise in the women's game because so few gay players have so far spoken out.

It even has a steam whistle for a horn; sounding it in traffic caused some surprise.

Mitterrand's choice of Rocard as prime minister caused some surprise, for the two men had headed rival factions within the Socialist Party, and they were temperamentally alien.

Mr Meshal's comments caused some surprise among Hamas officials in Gaza, although they were quick to point out there was little substantial divergence from other Hamas statements.

The decision to delay the publication of the Muslim Brotherhood review, taken on Monday morning on the direct orders of Cameron, caused some surprise in Whitehall and Westminster.

Mr. Devine caused some surprise during today's conference call when he said, "Whether they should be in the small S.U.V. market I think is a question mark".

But at the Wapping headquarters of Mr Murdoch's British newspapers today, there was a satisfaction among executives over the scale of Mr Gray's settlement, which also caused some surprise among lawyers acting for other claimants.

The projected Tory performance in the exit poll was more impressive even than the predictions of the party's campaign director, Lynton Crosby, who had caused some surprise when he said privately that the party would win 300 seats.

GIVEN the avalanche of corruption cases tumbling on Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Potjaman, it caused some surprise in Thailand when the Supreme Court let them leave the country to attend the opening of the Olympics in Beijing.