Sentence examples for was rather unexpected from inspiring English sources

"It was rather unexpected," Dr. Sarnak said.

Its important intensity was rather unexpected, and serious concern arose regarding risk of building stock in Spain.

This good agreement was rather unexpected given the exaggeratedly small system chosen here to illustrate how the supercell program may be used in such a context.

This positive and cross-nationally observed relationship was rather unexpected, especially because the relationship between the communication index created by ICILS and the CIL scores was weak.

Myskow (2015) points out that while the high frequency of Significance is not surprising as the identification of significance is central to historical inquiry, the high occurrence of Affect was rather unexpected.

The discovery of ergot alkaloids in seeds of Rivea Corymbosa, Ipomoea violacea and Argyreia nervosa in the early 60s was rather unexpected and of particular interest from a phytochemical point of view, since the lysergic acid alkaloids, until then, were isolated only in the genus Claviceps fungus, Penicillium or Rhizopus (Steiner et al., 2006).

It is rather unexpected to hear a French actor praise the English way of doing things.

"They display a high degree of order and universality that has been rather unexpected by any accounts".

All of which is rather unexpected for such a big-chested, bald-headed Punjabi boy, with a full-on gym addiction.

The quartos are rather unexpected standouts among 322 lots, most of which are movie props and keepsakes that include a bronze sculpture of Heston playing Moses (from The Ten Commandments) and a cloak he wore while filming El Cid.

The fact that tea-party-era Republicans decided they don't actually care about the defence cuts and have happily allowed the sequester to become the default budget is rather unexpected, but it doesn't change Democrats' frustration with current domestic-spending levels.