Sentence examples for surprise notes from inspiring English sources

This should not come as a surprise, notes Chris Rapley of University College London.

This comes as no surprise, notes Idov, citing Barabtarlo's impressive translation of "Pnin".

It doesn't, really; or only to the extent that the last section, with its surprise notes of happiness, seems to want to recast pathology as romance after all; a questionable reversal.

Only three of 51 honour killers interviewed for another study said they had any regrets.In a society where female chastity is venerated and the motto "my horse, my gun and my woman are sacred" is common among men, "this should not come as a surprise," notes Zozan Ozgokce, a female activist who runs an EU-funded project in Van to counsel abused women.

The image's smooth sinuous flow came as a "great surprise," notes Sankrit.

Hurdles aside, showing a social influence on obesity isn't a surprise, notes David Allison, a biostatistician and obesity researcher at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

The plate tectonics of social mobility also figure into the Santorum surprise, note scholars like the political scientist John C. Green of the University of Akron.

If it beat the Sky, the Liberty would claim the final spot in the W.N.B.A. Eastern Conference playoffs, finishing the season on a surprise note of overachievement.

"Because Edith Wharton noted her distaste for wallpaper in ' The Decoration of Houses,' the recent discovery that she papered multiple rooms at The Mount has come as an exciting surprise," noted the Annual Report for 2005.

Yet as a recent cover story in Business Week, "The E-Biz Surprise," noted, the projections of the growth in Internet commerce made in the bubble days of 1999 have proved pretty accurate.

Even Macmillan expressed surprise, noting in his diary the next day: "The LCJ has passed a savage sentence — 42 years!" His comment certainly raises questions about Pincher's claims.