Evaluative adverbs (surprisingly) and viewpoint adverbs (personally)
We put some adverbs outside the clause. They modify the whole sentence or utterance. Evaluative and viewpoint adverbs are good examples of this: …

Examples of surprisingly

surprisingly
More surprisingly, he had little time for the actual experiences of the millions of ordinary people who in our time have been at war.
Perhaps also surprisingly, the number of refereed papers on food quality and human health issues were similar for both conventional and organic research.
Not surprisingly, language and culture are playing important roles in the struggle to reclaim the land.
The property model of pregnancy outlined here is perhaps surprisingly straightforward.
Not surprisingly, mineral-rich areas have turned out to be major targets of rebel movements.
Not surprisingly, the results were disaffection, poor attendance and ultimately a collapse of the organization.
Surprisingly, there were no utterances in which a child combined a novel noun with another noun from her existing vocabulary.
Another teaching approach used was text reconstruction, which, perhaps surprisingly, benefited the least educated learners the most.
Not surprisingly, stronglybuttressed social stereotypes are extremely tenacious; nevertheless, they can be a poor basis for scientific work.
Perhaps, somewhat surprisingly, there remain important features of such equations which have yet to be fully elucidated.
Somewhat surprisingly, we will prove it by using - three times in succession - the core of the '1-dimensional' argument above.
Somewhat surprisingly, experience in agriculture was negatively associated with adopting new agricultural practices (controlling for age).
Perhaps surprisingly, the authors found that only one-quarter of the respondents felt that caring for grandchildren was either very or extremely stressful.
Not surprisingly, we observed the greatest improvement in self-efficacy among intervention group patients between baseline and the 3-month follow-up interview.
And while donors fly the civil society banner with apparent confidence, the actual body of empirical research underlying the cause is surprisingly thin.
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