Example sentences of "may [verb] come [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 2 | It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ . |
| 3 | The honour may have come as a surprise to some , but England 's second city has never played second fiddle in the music business , spawning such performers as The Moody Blues , The Spencer Davis group , Black Sabbath , ELO , Duran Duran and UB40 . |
| 4 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |
| 5 | The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection . |
| 6 | THE Soviet Union 's quarrelling politicians may have come to a truce , perhaps something more . |
| 7 | Although separated from her husband of 11 years , Diana 's loneliest chapter may have come to an end . |
| 8 | The Soviet Union is too dependent and too much part of the world economy to return to hibernation , but another period of infatuation may have come to an end . |
| 9 | Technically , it may have come to an end , but recovery will be slow , sluggish and patchy . |
| 10 | Compound documents of this type are traditionally assembled by layout artists from the various elements which may have come from a typesetting house , design studio , photographer or elsewhere . |
| 11 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |