Example sentences of "[adj] come as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came as a great shock to my parents , especially my mother . |
| 2 | This comes as a great shock to me because it is well understood that anyone who does not like Erich Kleiber 's conducting must be a Nazi ! ’ |
| 3 | That came as a great surprise to me I can tell you . |
| 4 | Ironically the amount eventually charged is still likely to come as a nasty shock for a client who has not yet confronted the financial realities of litigation . |
| 5 | This was a test of how fast the regiment could pack up and move out to its battle positions , and was supposed to come as a big surprise , but Maxim knew how easy it was to predict . |
| 6 | The white man , as is his habit , acted as though it all came as an immense surprise , and having registered his perturbation at the undamned reservoirs of fury from those previously ‘ unheard ’ , called for reconciliation and mutual forgiveness and understanding . |
| 7 | ( News that funding for Isis , the complementary neutron source at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories , would stay fixed until 1997 came as a great relief to scientists in the UK . ) |
| 8 | The oil price rises of October 1973 came as a serious blow to Bonn , as it did to other Western European nations . |