Example sentences of "have come as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock .
2 But the news has come as a total shock for many people .
3 Tearful Mandy said : ‘ This has come as a total surprise to me and my family .
4 This has come as a terrible shock .
5 ‘ This has come as a terrible shock .
6 Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers .
7 His death today has come as a complete shock .
8 I 'm sure this has come as a big shock to you .
9 The decision to sell Harford has come as a big blow to Luton boss David Pleat who said : ‘ I did n't want him to go but the club needs the money . ’
10 ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention .
11 But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow .
12 The ruling has come as a bitter blow Brain Goldsworthy 's common law wife .
13 Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) .
14 All this has come as an unpleasant surprise to Hong Kong 's officials .
15 The knowledge that fitzAlan had a family had come as a strange shock .
16 For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum .
17 ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock .
18 Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts .
19 NEIL Kinnock 's slightly manic conducting of Men of Harlech at Egglescliffe School on Friday may have come as a mild surprise to the attendant gentlemen of the Press .
20 He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat .
21 It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder .
22 So it should have come as no real surprise to me to discover that the ’ gear ’ Penny so briefly dismissed included a 17 foot aluminium boat , 24hp outboard , a trailer ( obviously ) , a seine net and a lot of angling equipment .
23 Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors .
24 Her death had come as a great shock to him .
25 This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself .
26 His success had come as a complete surprise to him .
27 It had been clear that Artai 's decision to name Jehan as a member of the embassy had come as a complete surprise .
28 The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan .
29 The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak .
30 It had come as an unpleasant shock to realize how much they knew : those employing the man , that was — the French Haute Police , as they called themselves .
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