Example sentences of "have come [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The announcement that Saudi Arabia is to buy 48 of the aircraft has come as a relief to workers at Smiths Industries in Bishops Cleeve , which supplies cockpit displays for the Tornado .
2 Washington 's success on the Pro-Tour has come as a surprise to some , not least Brian Gottfried , former touring pro and now head coach at the ATP 's headquarters in Florida .
3 The news has come as a surprise to the local council .
4 The size of these valuations , which in some cases exceed the value of the matrimonial home , has come as a surprise to many lawyers and to their clients .
5 Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’
6 I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms .
7 This has come as a shock to all of us , Masklin thought .
8 The exponential growth in CMEA debt ( from $6 billion in 1970 to $58.3 billion in 1981 ) has come as a shock to borrower and lender alike .
9 This attitude has come as a shock to many in Hollywood who are falling over themselves to sign him .
10 So this news has come as a disappointment to local business leaders .
11 A LITTLE more light has come into the lives of children at a Romanian hospital with the arrival of a BNFL generator which once provided back-up power for Capenhurst 's E21 centrifuge plant .
12 She has come into the Chamber in the past five minutes .
13 The one thing its citizens have in common is that God has come into the life of each one and given a love for him and for each other which no human or political institution can ever produce .
14 With our family and friends we sing our praises to God and in our prayers we say thank you that Jesus has come into the world to be with us for ever and ever .
15 With our family and our friends we sing our praises to God and in our prayers we say thank you that Jesus has come into the world to be with us for ever and ever .
16 The true dyed-in-the-wool , deep down Conservatives may feel uncomfortably that the sacred word has come into the hands of unsuitable people ; including the Americans .
17 They in turn have by defeat lost their rule which has come into the hands of the British .
18 How far he has come since the days in Harry Fischer 's office above the tobacconist 's , with the cosy office jokes and the lunch time beers in the pub !
19 She wonders if she will in fact see her son , since a tender has come off the track down the line .
20 Nurse Catherine Cockborn said : ‘ The change that has come over the pair of them is absolutely amazing .
21 However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday .
22 Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit .
23 Lynsey has come through the ranks from Ulster Under-16 level , to the Under-21s , before gaining selection for the Ulster senior squad .
24 ‘ One of our most pressing problems ’ , he concluded , ‘ is how to deal with the human waste which has come through the discarding of the services of workers unable to adjust to the new requirements ’ .
25 Recently this work has come under the umbrella of the ERU and it is good to have Lorraine 's expertise available to other members of the Unit .
26 The importance of the structure of organic superconductors has come under the scrutiny of another group working at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois .
27 There 's one section of the student body that has come under the limelight in the last year or two and that 's the overseas student body .
28 The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time .
29 The late Armand Hammer 's museum , which opened in December 1990 with a lavish $60 million building by Edward Larrabee Barnes ( likened by one critic to a consulate in a Middle Eastern emirate ) , but with only a $36 million endowment , has come under the management of the adjacent University of California at Los Angeles .
30 A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today .
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