contrary to expectation in English
as opposed to expectations, opposite of what was supposed or imagined to occu
Use "contrary to expectation" in a sentence
1. 2 The result is contrary to expectation.
2. What does But mean? Contrary to expectation; yet
3. As Halliday and Hasan (1976) stated, Adversative conjunctions denote contrast and comparison indicating what is “contrary to expectation” (p
4. While Adversative relation is a type of addition, which involves no implication of any causal or temporal relationship between clauses joined, concession is regarded as a subtype of condition, meaning ‘if P, then contrary to expectation Q’ (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2013)