How To Use Surprisingly In A Sentence
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This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint.
Archive 2009-03-01
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He needs medical attention and is also, unsurprisingly, concerned about his safety.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found that employers were considerably more likely to offer interviews and jobs to applicants with white names.
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Not surprisingly, there are about three Joes for every Jane but even so, that means there are over 8 million Janes.
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It is surprisingly easy to manoeuvre and far less treacherous than parasailing.
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Exciting and surprisingly short matches for the undercard.
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But considering how much time we spend on that time of the month - from puberty to menopause, the average woman menstruates almost seven whole years - many of us know surprisingly little about it.
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Not surprisingly, this imposing property is a popular choice for wedding receptions and regularly used for corporate entertaining, conferences and seminars.
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Still, the SNP are understandably cock-a-hoop and, again unsurprisingly, SNP bloggers are urging the party on to 2010 and their plans for an independence referendum.
The View from the North
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The structure is surprisingly complex, viewing the same events from different perspectives, which Zhang helpfully colour-codes in ravishing washes of primary tints.
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Surprisingly, Albee points to the new-play development programs found in theatres across North America (involving dramaturges, readings, workshops) as a source of the blandness of so much of the drama of the past 20 years.
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Considering that the ship has been down almost 60 years, the wooden decking is in most places surprisingly intact, though it has rotted almost completely away in some areas.
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The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds inefficient but actually works surprisingly well).
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Surprisingly, studies are showing that they can actually help you to shed pounds.
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The compact dimensions of the system means minimum impact on interior space and the design of the drivetrain is surprisingly simple but highly efficient.
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Unsurprisingly, the story is much more complex than the headline suggests and provides yet another example of the story being spun to meet a commercial agenda.
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Not surprisingly, Metung attracted a number of distinguished early holiday-makers, some of whom settled there permanently, including the explorer and mineralogist Dr. Alfred Howitt; His Honour Judge John Burnett Box; and John King, the second son of Rear Admiral Philip Parker King.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The point is that Ikea sells inexpensive furniture of surprisingly high quality.
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The book contains addition, subtraction, multiplication and, very surprisingly for that period, also division.
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Not surprisingly, the strikers were preoccupied with regaining their jobs and keeping their system of seniority.
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Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest.
The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
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Not surprisingly, the twistiness of the daffodil was much higher (fourteen times higher, in fact) than its bendiness, explaining why these plants are far more likely to turn in the wind than to bend over.
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To my knowledge, the patient relations office never discussed the matter with the surgeon -- I certainly never heard from him -- but I did receive a termination letter followed by a series of surprisingly rude and condescending letters from their risk management attorney after I pointed out that HIPPA promises patients will not be "penalized" for filing a privacy complaint.
Genital Photos, HIPAA and the Media
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I think he has something interesting to tell us about political alienation, but he is surprisingly elusive.
Times, Sunday Times
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This work connected the introverted poet with a new and surprisingly outer-directed passion that would affect many lives.
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Jan was surprisingly matter-of-fact about her divorce.
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In theory, PLS is applied in situations of multicollinearity, but the MBH network has many series that are essentially white noise and thus the proxies are surprisingly close to being orthogonal in the early networks and there are blocks of orthogonal series in the later network.
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In the recent retrospective of Nan Kempner’s wardrobe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the late socialite’s closet was re-created in breathtaking detail — all 354 jackets and 362 sweaters — but her surprisingly undistinguished collection of handbags was relegated to a high shelf and mostly hidden.
Carried Away
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Italy versus Japan is turning out to be a surprisingly well matched competition.
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Also known as the paragraph mark, the pilcrow, for such a humble, rarely used mark, has a surprisingly complex history.
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Otley had the advantage of a strong wind in the first-half and not surprisingly had the better of the game in terms of territory.
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Unsurprisingly, few teams can have topped their table with such little fanfare and there was little in the way of a carnival atmosphere yesterday.
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Potiphar discovers that Joseph is surprisingly honest, diligent and bright for a common slave, and puts him in charge of all the affairs of his house.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Deception And Desire: An Overview Of Genesis
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He has surprisingly done everything the unilateralist screamers assured us he would not do; namely, take every precautionary step the UN has asked him to take.
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His voice is also surprisingly cultured, far more so in many ways than Jagger's flattened vowels.
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Not too surprisingly, it had broad upper incisors and chisel-shaped lower incisors.
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Unsurprisingly, the resulting play won five-star reviews.
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When Rostnikov repeated that the primary evidence against Samsonov was the testimony of an Evenk shaman, Samsonov had to be restrained by Famfanoff who, surprisingly, found enough strength within his abused body to control the furious doctor.
A Cold Red Sunrise
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Dramatics seem to have been part of a student's life early in the history of the University, surprisingly, because attendance at the theatre was forbidden.
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It's a surprisingly tractable companion, especially if you let the auto function take the strain of stop-starting in the city.
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Behind these small downward statistical movements are people who are finding selling surprisingly tough.
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By contrast, the literature on Britain appears to be surprisingly slim and tends to make repeated reference to the same or similar lists of crimes and cases.
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Three reds remain but Hendry surprisingly concedes to leave his opponent just one frame from victory.
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That extra tail-weight partly explains why the Octavia feels eager to point into a corner despite its soft and very comfortable springing, making it a surprisingly enjoyable car for a keen driver, apart from the overly snatchy brakes.
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Nestling next to the ladies of the night were several mustached, glazed-eyed Afghan men who occasionally took unsteady steps onto a makeshift dance floor to bust some surprisingly graceful traditional moves.
The Longest War
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The sleeves of her coat were blown back; but surprisingly, the wind was pleasantly warm, like the wind before Winter had come.
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Not surprisingly on such a hot afternoon, the river was very busy.
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Their sprawling theme park of paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and videos amounts to a surprisingly ambitious exhibition.
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Not surprisingly the nine-year-old is subjected to cruel taunts at school because of her weight.
The Sun
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Not surprisingly, the result has been to recruit predominantly middle-class unemployed people into mainstream programmes.
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Unsurprisingly, Gallo refers everything back to his childhood, mining his youth for anecdotes.
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Surprisingly, in the 3G mobile space, prepaid calls fell in cost more than post-paid services.
Phones And Net Are Cheaper, But We Complain More | Lifehacker Australia
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Surprisingly, parrots and cockatoos can get jealous of other pets, so if there's a new animal in the house be patient whilst your bird gets used to the newcomer.
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It turns out that the bulk of the world's millionaires, for example, are surprisingly frugal.
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Steering is very light and the car is surprisingly flexible; the turning circle is quite tight, making it easy to manoeuvre in tight spaces once you've got used to the size.
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Hemphill is actually surprisingly handsome, with startlingly blue eyes and an odd portmanteau accent that belies his formative years in Canada after being born in Glasgow.
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underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist
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Their new album is surprisingly listenable.
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Not surprisingly, Chloe is a gifted musician, studying piano, guitar and recorder, as well as being an accomplished singer.
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The bar turned out to be surprisingly spacious, with a restaurant downstairs, and a bar with an attached roof deck upstairs.
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But he gets more than he bargained for when his photographic evidence unearths a surprisingly saucy affair.
The Sun
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It gave his face a lean, rather surprisingly attractive ascetic look—the look of long-distance runners, saints, martyrs, and fanatics, the kind of elongated, soulful face that El Greco painted so hauntingly.
Twilight
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Unsurprisingly, I was missing a lot of important rehearsals in the process.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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Like many former comrades he proved a surprisingly skilled businessman and set up an investment company.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not surprisingly, she advocates a balance, but one so delicate as to require almost daily adjustment.
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He was standing right there in surprisingly normal attire: a black shirt and jeans.
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But despite the college's fears, Mr Gray is surprisingly optimistic.
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The dish was surprisingly good, consisting of two crispy, crunchy fritters and an authentic-tasting peanut dipping sauce.
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The payback on such items can be surprisingly attractive.
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And not too surprisingly (since silica is the most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust), the coating is non-toxic and environmentally harmless.
Spray-on liquid glass
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Behind a cute, red, shopfront the hotel is surprisingly large, with 50 classically-decorated rooms.
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Of greater concern to me is what can seem like surprisingly low-quality childcare.
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Large exostoses had developed and the subject remained lame, but union of the broken bone took place in a surprisingly prompt and effective manner, when age of the subject and nature of the fracture are considered.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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How to explain, then, the surprisingly erratic share price movement?
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Some surprisingly inventive puzzles are included amid the expertly handled robot blasting and leaping around with a jetpack.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only are Martian volcanoes huge, they are surprisingly complex.
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Unsurprisingly, sakura feature heavily in Japanese art.
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The urbanization of the mass of the population and the decline of rural areas not surprisingly had profound social consequences for all classes of the population.
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John's aunt died suddenly and left him a surprisingly large sum.
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Somewhat surprisingly, the sellout crowd had to wait for 41 minutes for the home side to convert threat into reward.
The Sun
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Even more surprisingly, they were understood to have a right to sexual fulfillment.
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The dog was, unsurprisingly given its breed, a pugnacious character at times.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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It was a surprisingly dry day after the rain of the previous week.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over ...
Joyce Purnick: Bloomberg's No-Shows
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Kerekou won by an unsurprisingly huge margin: 86 percent of the valid votes cast compared with 16 percent for Amoussou.
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He has a surprisingly boyish voice, with a comical, girlish giggle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ken Clarke was so close to the action that when the choirboys did their descant, it looked as though it was coming from him, and he had a surprisingly high, sweet voice.
Royal wedding guest list: perplexing – and where was naughty Uncle Gary?
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She shoulders a surprisingly long spear, perhaps to ward off the ardent king, although by that time she had been scarred by smallpox and he had mostly given up his advances.
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She pulled me onto the dance floor and I surprisingly had a lot of fun moving to the fast beat of the music.
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They brought enthusiasm, a gong, some bongos, and turntables, yet aside from some light effects, played a surprisingly serene set.
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He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!”
At a Welsh Wedding
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They found, not surprisingly, that averting a major catastrophe would not be easy.
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Finally, just over half using rinse is surprisingly high to me.
Japanese men and personal grooming: part 2 of 2
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Surprisingly, the E1027 is just about childproof, if you make sure the spine is firmly against a wall so the cantilever supports your infant's weight as they haul themselves up to swipe off everything carefully arranged on top of it.
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The text is broken up by just four illustrations, one musical example and surprisingly few quotations.
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Not surprisingly, dracunculiasis, the disease caused by the guinea worm, is particularly bad in deserts, where people crowd around oases.
Parasite Rex
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Not surprisingly, military learning commences on the basis of behaviourism.
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Researchers found people were surprisingly upbeat on Mondays despite popular belief.
The Sun
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It's surprisingly doable, and going to the gym is less daunting once cardio is out of the way.
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Surprisingly, she didn't feel nervous, or regretful about her actions.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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This year's lineup was surprisingly good, in part because so many of the films came in as relative unknowns.
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Occasional outbreaks of colourful language aside, the exchanges seemed surprisingly civilised.
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The kolache dough has a chewy breadiness to it that is surprisingly versatile.
Koalche Reminder | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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Her warm and surprisingly sizable voice came bursting forth and she is no wall flower in the expressivity department.
Local girl makes good
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Not surprisingly, the unions were incensed, but failed to stop the Bill going through Parliament.
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Not surprisingly perhaps vibrator advertisements, whether directed at doctors or women did not mention orgasms or sexual pleasure, just the health benefits of vibration.
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Through most of the Neogene, tropical America has been biogeographically divided into two surprisingly distinct provinces.
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But it has flourished, unsurprisingly over the years, to become a much loved and cherished part of the British landscape.
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Unsurprisingly, the technology sector was the first and worst hit, but the impact of the internet is leaving few areas untouched.
Times, Sunday Times
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Against the positive backdrop, many people had expected a good run in Asian bourses on Monday, but surprisingly, they were generally range-bound with a mild upward bias on bargain-hunting interest offsetting a bout of profit-taking activity.
Undefined
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Yet despite a third-act plunge into compromised stodge (which is unsurprising considering its star names), there's some surprisingly edgy humour at work in this darker-than-expected comedy from German-born writer-director Derrick Borte.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
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Easter bonnets and egg hunts are surprisingly popular.
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The symbolism carved out of flowers, the sun and elements of nature is surprisingly shared across the board of all three artists.
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Surprisingly, this insubstantial comedy drama returns for a third season.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw it yesterday - a midday summer movie by myself, one of my few truly decadent indulgences - and found it surprisingly funny and true.
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Not surprisingly, for connoisseurs of media history, the prime optic of this dilatory policy exercise has been censorship.
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Surprisingly, the polyhedrin subunits are more similar to picornavirus coat proteins than to the polyhedrin of cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV).
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He has turned over his family's empty pub to prayer meetings, and he knows exactly what his teenage sister is doing this surprisingly golden Todmorden summer, playing with the posh public school totty up the road.
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For a dirty punk rock boy covered in tatts who didn't like deodorant and who could smell either surprisingly sexy or really really bad when sweaty, Punkboy's house was extremely well-maintained.
What have you been doing with your life?
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Not surprisingly, last Friday's Minneapolis City Council meeting was dominated by the smoking ban ordinance, which burned up nearly two hours of debate.
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The service was attentive and friendly without being cloying, the branded toothpicks in their 'matchbook' holders a funky touch, and the bill a pretty reasonable £95 including service - which, surprisingly for London, wasn't included as standard!
Archive 2008-05-01
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Not surprisingly, he'd love to find out how York coped with its own floods down the ages.
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Not surprisingly, fusion cuisine continued to be popular, melding tastes from different cultures into one melting pot.
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But out of this adversity has sprung a surprisingly fine vintage.
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Not surprisingly these force patterns resemble the pattern of magnetic field lines across the aperture of a quadrupole magnet.
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Not surprisingly, studies reveal that patients who receive tPA live longer and have fewer long-term disabilities than those who did not receive this medication.
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.: How To Prevent Heart Disease And Stroke
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The synopsis is, unsurprisingly, a rehash of the commercially successful film franchise.
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Not surprisingly these force patterns resemble the pattern of magnetic field lines across the aperture of a quadrupole magnet.
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Not surprisingly, the music is simply beautiful, filled with emotion-packed vocals, lush backing harmonies, and rich sonic textures.
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The trip proved to be an eye-opener in terms of art, culture, social orderings and, not surprisingly, landscape.
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Their domestic agendas and failings, even their backgrounds, are surprisingly similar.
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Surprisingly enough I even managed to checkmate the computer, though I think I had some help from my companion.
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The intellectual ferment in China settled down surprisingly quickly.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Atop the videocassette was a note penned in blue ink in my brother's surprisingly crabbed handwriting.
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Madame Monconseil assures me that you are most surprisingly improved in your air, manners, and address: go on, my dear child, and never think that you are come to a sufficient degree of perfection; Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum; and in those shining parts of the character of a gentleman, there is always something remaining to be acquired.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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The changes were made with surprisingly little difficulty.
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Not surprisingly, it has become a popular eat-out for the corporates, families and for the cosy twosomes.
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Surprisingly, once the shock disappeared and reality sunk in, tears sprang to my eyes.
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On the contrary, he's surprisingly mobile, able to bowl over defenders or fake them out.
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Airy, instantly accessible but surprisingly subtle music covering ground between modem mainstream and bebop and featuring Barnes alongside trumpeter Adams.
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In a series of online opinionsurveys and in voluminous press commentary, debate has been surprisingly intense.
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While they aren't exactly capacious, the new breed of clutches are surprisingly roomy.
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I could see his white Nike shoes, his sharply creased trousers, the powerful veined forearms and blacksmith's hands, the fingers round and surprisingly short, like chipolatas.
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Then came the disquieting blue stare , and the surprisingly loud , ringing voice.
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In addition, I have several subsidiary areas of interest, including, not surprisingly, wildfowl, and also mountaineering and political biographies.
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Not surprisingly, many listed retailers saw profits shoot upwards as well, tripling in some cases.
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This revolutionary change has, not surprisingly, been opposed by many elements that are recalcitrant, those who remain obedient to dogma, to tradition and the heavy legacy of past conditioning.
The Continuing Controversy on Abortion
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Many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics.
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Not surprisingly, these are rougher years and I find I cannot recall the films to mind as readily.
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Yet her fierce, unplucked brows guarded surprisingly delicate eyelashes.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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The results of the water test showed that pollution was surprisingly minimal, and that there was no sign of sea water leaking into the spring.
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Not surprisingly, there's a predominant use of deictics throughout the text, ‘now’ ‘here’ ‘I’, a device used here to confirm, the congruence of the writer with the time and place of writing.
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And as much as I wanted her to be a disgruntled employee, eager to dish the dirt, she was surprisingly gruntled.
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However, I did make some chicken and dumplings the way my mama makes it and surprisingly, my English hubby really liked it, even though here a dumpling is a whole 'nother thing - more like a biscuit (American biscuit, not a cookie!) that floats on top of soup - crunchy on top and a bit soggy on the bottom, and equally delicious.
Tex-Mex chicken and dumplings recipe | Homesick Texan
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He evidently purged himself of enough angst to be able to craft a follow-up that's warm, nimble and surprisingly funny in places.
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The BBC news site today has a surprisingly long article on the current furore surrounding London postcodes.
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Not surprisingly, these expanding missions have been accompanied by increases in manpower and budget.
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Things happen: Doug, who has dropped out of college, where he was, somewhat surprisingly, studying forensic science and criminal justice - he seems far too laid back and self-preoccupied to be interested in exterior pursuits - gets a job in an ice factory.
NYT > Home Page
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Of course we begin by emulating the people we recognize as virtuous in our society; hence, unsurprisingly, virtues differ between cultures.
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Despite our awareness of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle, we can still be surprisingly unimaginative when it comes to fruit and veg.
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Surprisingly, there are no Amish groups today in Europe.
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For something so thin, the wrapper is surprisingly sturdy and I was able to wrap them very easily.
Archive 2007-06-01
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The whole was bound by a thick, rich "diable" seafood broth that was slightly sweet and carried a surprisingly aggressive - to me, pitch-perfect - twitch of heat. l'Ambroisie, Paris, France
The ulterior epicure
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Somewhat surprisingly, the sellout crowd had to wait for 41 minutes for the home side to convert threat into reward.
The Sun
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Not surprisingly Roy King pays particular attention to the considerations which affect the successful negotiation of an acceptable research role and suggests a number of nostrums for the conduct of research in prisons.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, presidential memoirs are usually dull, uninformative and embarrassingly self-congratulatory.
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However, sundials are a surprisingly unreliable means of telling the time.
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A switch to shadow puppetry during the search for the shoe is surprisingly beautiful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not surprisingly, their heuristic - the equivalent of what we call intuition, or common sense - is that of Suburbia, which has been the predominant mode of white American thought since the late 1960s.
MIDDLE CLASS ANGST: THE POLITICS OF LEMMINGS, Part I
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My initial impulse, surprisingly, was to agree with the right-wingers.
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In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
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Unsurprisingly, each artist affirms the importance of getting on with your co-writer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well known for her ability to avoid answering questions, she was unsurprisingly short on specifics.
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Not surprisingly, the word violet is derived from the flower of the same name via the French violette or viola, and is cognate with the Greek ion, from which the word iodine is derived.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color
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Not surprisingly, the combination of dynamic complexity and the ability to adapt is referred to as complex adaptivity.
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This guy’s rods sold for what you could call an entry-level price for bamboo and they were surprisingly good, but he said he had no aspirations about turning pro.
Fool’s Paradise
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Another John is a saucy southerner who talked about two Americas while surprisingly not referring to secession.
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Buy them from a reputable source and try a few at a time - they will multiply surprisingly quickly.
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We played with an emo band at Listen, and it actually went over surprisingly well.
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The restaurant, which serves surprisingly tasty dishes — like steak onglet with béarnaise sauce, slow-cooked pork belly, cheese soufflé omelette, and organic salad grown from the prisoners 'own garden — resembles something between Hell's Kitchen and Prison Break.
A Taste of Prison Food
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Surprisingly, because they consist of precisely eight people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surprisingly, it was the supporting actors who managed to steal the show.
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Not surprisingly, we can see an affinity to Warhol's early films in this series of paintings.
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Our playful dig drew plenty of interesting emails and surprisingly, very few flames.
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Surprisingly, the key to such an anesthetic may lie in the metabolite of a sex hormone.
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Not surprisingly, since the target molecules vary, insecticide chemistries vary.
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Should we be apoplectic with rage or surprisingly delighted?
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Not surprisingly, the case has given everyone from the police to the courts - and yours truly - a case of the willies.
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Surprisingly, perhaps, Vidyapati himself was not a Krishna bhakta, not even a Vaishnava.
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His glossary includes ‘fair dinkum’ and ‘stonkered’, though not, surprisingly, ‘hooroo’ or ‘rumpty’.
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The journey was surprisingly hassle-free.
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Not surprisingly, the one-armed baba and other members of the militant ascetic Juna Akhara sect are big fans of the Ram temple.
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Flavor houses are, not surprisingly, working overtime to produce ingredients for marinades, dry seasonings, and rubs.
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Then he reared down again, with surprisingly little fanfare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surprisingly this all turned out to be quite fun, but I was still happy to return to the chocolate-box beauty of Aix after my reluctant taste of reality.
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Contrary to age-old belief, leprosy is surprisingly hard to catch.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog
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Not surprisingly, a slot in the Underground can be a big boost to the careers of unknown painters.
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Not surprisingly, the opinion of the people sitting around me was that the blimp was an absurd waste of taxpayer money.
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It was, not surprisingly, an emotional homecoming.
Times, Sunday Times
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The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors.
