1.   The whole thing stank, she said, the so-called surprise element was patronising, she was being treated like a child.

2.   It was constructed in a way that made sense and had the surprise element to it.

3.   The surprise element of working with a start-up is somewhat ameliorated.

4.   Krishna said an anti-hijack exercise had been planned, but no date had been announced to maintain the surprise element, he said.

5.   The Federal Reserve provided a surprise element to the meeting Wednesday when it cut interest rates.

6.   To add a surprise element and further test local teams, NATO officials slightly changed previously agreed-on scenarios just before the exercise started early Wednesday.

7.   You need some surprise elements, something that could choke the audience to death.

8.   His deputy, Charles Duelfer, told AFP that it was pointless to carry on as the searches had been robbed of their surprise element.

9.   And Kemp certainly fits the bill in terms of surprise element.

10.   They also enable the UN inspectors to retain the surprise element in snap searches.