Example sentences of "[adv] came as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 3 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 4 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 5 | It thus came as no surprise when it was announced in 1961 that the Marton route would close at the end of the 1962 season . |
| 6 | I just came As |
| 7 | But it still came as a surprise when she angrily pushed away the unfinished lasagne and stared at him directly . |
| 8 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 9 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 10 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 11 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
| 12 | In her heart , Tallis had known that Scathach would not wait for her , but it still came as a shock to find that he had betrayed his word to her . |
| 13 | Despite becoming constant companions , she says his marriage proposal still came as a shock . |
| 14 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 15 | While the problems of the overall balance of payments hardly came as a surprise ( though the speed with which Lend-Lease ended did come as a shock ) , the problem of the dollar was less readily anticipated . |
| 16 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 17 | In the last stages of composition , after the destruction of the ‘ society ’ names , ‘ De Bailhache , Fresca , Mrs. Cammel ’ , Eliot amended his original version , adding some lines which surely came as a result of his meeting with Peters : |
| 18 | the moves today came as no surprise … speculation has been linking Hoddle with Chelsea for weeks … |
| 19 | Living economically almost came as second nature . |
| 20 | It sometimes came as a slight shock to Wycliffe to have this paragon of the modern virtues working under his direction . |
| 21 | That too came as no surprise . |
| 22 | It therefore came as a shock in early afternoon when reports began to filter through of a massive disaster that had overtaken the centre on the Pratzen Heights . |