For R Alexander Bentley and Michael J O'Brien, the theretofore mentioned professors, the n-gram tool has facilitated a study, just published, of the frequency of usage of what they call mood words – anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise, though not, I am saddened and surprised to note, "database", which might not be a mood word in itself but induces a mood of anger and disgust in me.
I was amused, but not in the least surprised to note the following entry quoted in his diary.
Watching a patient being spoonfed, I was surprised to note that he didn't look passive or babyish.
One is not surprised to note the comparatively recent date (1931) of a study by Aimé Dupuy, translatable as The Child: A New Character in the French Novel.
Yet in our weekend previews on Friday, Alicia was quoted again, and was pleasantly surprised to note the phenomenon of fans around the league actually saying nice things about her team, following their spirited 10-man comeback against LA Galaxy.
Political caution might explain his long delay in obliterating his aunt/stepmother's memory, which remained lost until 1829, when Jean-François Champollion, the first person to successfully decipher hieroglyphs using the Rosetta stone, was surprised to note female suffixes in certain royal inscriptions at Deir el-Bahri, and detective work began.
The other morning we visited our dental emporium, and as we reclined in the arms of the female oral hygienist, we were surprised to note that even her nails had been paints they insinuated themselves cleverly into our mouth and we felt that if we should close quickly on them we'd get a sudden taste of lobster.
When we moved past characteristics of living things and on to the six kingdom classification system, I was less surprised to note that few of my students knew we were animals.
Bringing web deals to a place where people manage their personal finances seems like a solid idea to me – particularly in a recession – so I'm surprised to note Strands is actually the first to incorporate custom coupons into a money management app.
I was surprised to note that no one - even small children - seemed taken aback by this.
In this context, then, I am somewhat surprised to note provisional interest in the latest weight-loss-by-pharmacotherapy research.
