Example sentences of "have come [prep] a [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 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 .
12 Since then NMW has carried out a heavy rationalisation programme and the return to profits has come despite a fall in turnover from £5.92m to £4.66m .
13 This has come to a head with EEC obstructionist moves at the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations which were meant to reach a conclusion by 1990 but which would now appear to have collapsed .
14 French microkernel operating system developer Chorus Systemes SA has come to an agreement with Motorola Inc 's Semiconductor division for joint development and marketing of a combination of the Chorus Unix System V-compliant microkernel technology with the PowerPC chip Motorola is developing with IBM Corp .
15 French microkernel operating system developer Chorus Systemes SA has come to an agreement with Motorola Inc 's Semiconductor division to jointly develop and market a combination of Chorus Unix System V-compliant microkernel technology with the PowerPC chip Motorola is developing with IBM Corp .
16 ‘ Hardly anything could cause a more widespread and painful sensation ’ , wrote The Times , ‘ the news of his death has come with a sense of shock and almost personal loss to millions . ’
17 ‘ Far from departing from the traditional view of the relationship between ranks , the moment has come for a return to it , ’ said Mr Roach .
18 It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men .
19 Does he further agree that the time has come for a period of consolidation ?
20 As it is now three years since the present display team was formed the time has come for an audition to be held , this will be early in the autumn .
21 Brown has come on a kind of pilgrimage to the heart of urban blight .
22 A Clothes Show insider said : ‘ This has come like a bolt from the blue .
23 " Apart from making slow progress with my music " , Wagner wrote to his future father-in-law , Franz Liszt , in 1854 , " my sole concern recently is a man who has come like a gift from heaven … into my solitude .
24 But the move has come after a series of blows , including poor livestock sales and lower wool prices .
25 However , three quarters of the fall in total mortality since 1970 has come from a reduction in deaths attributed to diseases of the circulatory system ( figure ) .
26 Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations .
27 The major contribution to informed debate about the search for sites for the disposal of nuclear wastes has come from a group of geographers ( Openshaw et al. 1989 ) and a GIS approach to this problem can pay high dividends .
28 Pressure has come from a number of sources in the economic , political , social and legal environment , and there is survey evidence to demonstrate a growth in the number of consultative committees now in operation .
29 Part of this has come from an influx of retired people , and it has therefore accentuated the already very unbalanced age composition of the population resulting from the emigration of the younger people .
30 In the circumstances of the case , Lord Macnaughton regarded Mr. Bruce as having come under a duty to the wife and he said , at p. 137 :
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