Example sentences of "as [art] surprise " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Wednesday 's Roland Nilsson pinpointed Tony Dorigo as the surprise dangerman as Trevor Francis 's team seek revenge for last season 's Hillsborough hammering by Leeds . |
| 2 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 3 | The East German government 's decision to let the refugees leave across their own country came as a surprise to many , including some West German diplomats . |
| 4 | The stern warning from Admiral Trost about possible effects on the special relationship between the United States and Britain came as a surprise to British officials . |
| 5 | It really should not come as a surprise to find Lewis , who continues his professional career tonight against Bradford 's Steve Garber at Hull City Hall , owning up to such an unexpected hobby . |
| 6 | This did not come as a surprise . |
| 7 | When Edward Grace , the Ford manager sent over to England in 1923 to find a production site , finally settled on Dagenham , paying £167,695 for the acreage , the choice came as a surprise to some people given the geological conditions . |
| 8 | Yet it came as a surprise to find Albert Uderzo , the Parisian illustrator , is suave , sophisticated and softly spoken , a man whose idea of fun is racing one of his six Ferraris . |
| 9 | Given the importance of this area of Russia in the Civil War and the Polish campaign , the Party 's care for and vigilance over the army does not come as a surprise ; nor does the considerable military presence in 1922 in civilian organizations like the hospital and the automobile workshop . |
| 10 | While the problems of the overall balance of payments hardly came as a surprise ( though the speed with which Lend-Lease ended did come as a shock ) , the problem of the dollar was less readily anticipated . |
| 11 | Temple 's decision to increase its offer had not come as a surprise , he said , and the SeaCo board would meet next week to consider its response . |
| 12 | The sale of Provendor , which is Volvo 's third most profitable division , making products ranging from mineral water to frozen snacks , will come as a surprise to the market when trading opens today . |
| 13 | His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity . |
| 14 | The speech came generally as a surprise , and many presumed , when it was announced that Hitler would speak , that he would report the capture of Stalingrad . |
| 15 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 16 | It came as a surprise to some of us to discover that , far from being an ancient , traditional system of land tenure , crofting is quite a recent phenomenon . |
| 17 | The 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia came as a surprise . |
| 18 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 19 | The results are likely to come as a surprise presenting many untapped market opportunities and will certainly dispel complacency . |
| 20 | This almost utopian-sounding conclusion — that niceness and forgivingness pay — came as a surprise to many of the experts , who had tried to be too cunning by submitting subtly nasty strategies ; while even those who had submitted nice strategies had not dared anything so forgiving as Tit for Two Tats . |
| 21 | This came as a surprise to the band as they had never agreed to play the concert at all and they immediately issued a statement to this effect , fearing that many of their fans were being lured into buying tickets for a Smiths free event . |
| 22 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 23 | Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck . |
| 24 | In view of the nature of the job waiting for him , the buying of James came as a surprise to observers . |
| 25 | The fact that it is women rather than men who are commonly the carers wo n't come as a surprise to most people . |
| 26 | To someone familiar only with black holes , this behaviour of a white hole comes as a surprise . |
| 27 | If there is a change of harmonic outlook in a piece , I prefer to feel , rather than to know whether it might arrive as a surprise , whether it should be prepared and how , and whether it ought to be pointed out at all ! |
| 28 | In between comes a short pièce d'occasion by Brahms , written in 1853 as a surprise birthday present for the violinist Joachim , and receiving its first commercial recording . |
| 29 | This new version came as a surprise , for rarely have I heard such contrasting views of the same piece . |
| 30 | It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that the experts are still arguing over something as basic as how a cat purrs . |