Sentence examples for rather than surprising from inspiring English sources

Alonso's having an incredible year and stellar performances are now frankly expected rather than surprising.

Considering that only IRES-containing mRNAs, which constitute perhaps 3% of total mRNAs, are translationally active in mitosis, the observed results are expected rather than surprising.

Bucking tradition, the White House has been laying out such proposals in advance of the president's speech, rather than surprising viewers with the policy measures on Tuesday.

"It would make a lot more sense for city staff to help people identify if they have warrants and clear them rather than surprising people in the middle of the night and shackling them and bringing them into court," he told the station.

"This is more than surprising.

If I were to improve it, I would make it clear when you enter a different "Room" rather than just surprising you once you reach a different threshold.

These results are rather surprising.

Surprise was expressed – in PAC language ("This is quite surprising") rather than the terms heard on the floor of the Commons ("I am absolutely staggered") – that such far-reaching changes could be undertaken without first asking some rudimentary questions of the professionals involved, gathering some slight evidence about the possible impact.

Indeed, if we consider his movement as fundamentally religious, in the broad sense of the term, rather than strictly political, his otherwise surprising success begins to make a lot of sense.

That Messiaen's time should come sooner -- now, just eight years after his death -- rather than later is not surprising in this fast-paced blur of an age.

They tend to associate wealth with the people who make it rather than inherit it (hardly surprising in a country where the richest two people are Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, rather than the queen and the Duke of Westminster).