Sentence examples for matter of surprise from inspiring English sources

This should not entirely be a matter of surprise.

"This is not a matter of surprise, even his party colours are that of Qatar Airways" a activist told me in Benghazi on the day.

"To some it may be a matter of surprise that the whole island has not been laid out as a city," the commissioners — Gouverneur Morris, Simeon De Witt and John Rutherfurd — wrote.

"It is a matter of surprise that even today, in this 21st century, 2,500 years later than the time of Buddha's birth, that it's still a little bit confused," said the Nepali prime minister, K. P. Sharma Oli, at a government-sponsored Buddhist conference in Kathmandu last month.

The story bears very little resemblance to the human trajectory in Miracles of Life, but the calm candid tone, the matter-of-fact surprise at the quotidian in Miracles of Life, is the same as B's sedate astonishment at the empty city.

"I know enough of the world now to have lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything," he wrote, "but it is a matter of some surprise to me, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such a young age".

This is a matter of great surprise.

And there's the small matter of a surprise pregnancy to discuss.

It is not just a matter of simple surprise, titillating though a well-turned revelation can be.

The committee also concluded that it was a "matter of considerable surprise" that nobody, with the exception of former investment banking head Johnny Cameron, has been "held meaningfully accountable" for the failure of the bank.

It was a matter of genuine surprise to me that the Mail's reaction to the pictures of Wayne and Coleen Rooney leaving hospital with their new baby wasn't a headline screaming "But where is Kai Wayne's poppy?" So on Saturday, know that every late challenge, every sending-off, will be in the memory of those who fell in battle.