Example sentences of "[vb -s] as [art] surprise " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity . |
| 2 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 3 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 4 | To someone familiar only with black holes , this behaviour of a white hole comes as a surprise . |
| 5 | It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that the experts are still arguing over something as basic as how a cat purrs . |
| 6 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that this is not always the case . |
| 7 | His latest outburst comes as a surprise , as Faldo claims he is more relaxed both on and off the course . |
| 8 | It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it . |
| 9 | And — to us this comes as a surprise — witches are as likely to be men as women . |
| 10 | No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events . |
| 11 | For something so very Italian it comes as a surprise to learn that the juniper harvested by the Scarponis has a British connection — it is the main ingredient in that quintessential British drink — Gordon 's Gin . |
| 12 | ‘ This comes as a surprise to most people , ’ he says , ‘ as they view plastic as a material that only uses up , rather than recycles , our natural resources . ’ |
| 13 | For younger mothers it usually comes as a surprise , an unintended consequence of a past or current sexual relationship , and an event for which there has been little planning or preparation . |
| 14 | But on the whole , pregnancy comes as a surprise and a shock . |
| 15 | IT ALWAYS COMES as a surprise to Nancy Kominsky that so many people still remember her for her television series in the late 1970s . |
| 16 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that there is one section of the department which does have regular problems of robbery and criminal damage — our Parking Section . |
| 17 | The link between recession , deprivation and crime hardly comes as a surprise — it is a common-sense notion . |
| 18 | It usually comes as a surprise to discover how angry the patient is , because superficially and consciously he blames no one but himself . |
| 19 | Blyth 's decision comes as a surprise because of their opposition to the pyramid during the Eighties , while Northallerton 's letter is indicative of their ambition to progress beyond the Northern League . |
| 20 | This comes as a surprise . |
| 21 | Because the ‘ prig ’ has to be nailed , it comes as no surprise to find that electronic tagging seems set to join the introduction of ID cards as a means of controlling the ‘ dangerous classes ’ , for as many anthropologists have shown , the concept of movement itself is possessed of dangerous ambiguity and prevents easy classification . |
| 22 | When it is also remembered that Belorussia had the lowest literacy rate of all European Russia , the sluggish response of the denizens of the Roslavl' area comes as no surprise . |
| 23 | It comes as no surprise to discover from another source that in 1921 the Kursk guberniia party committee had tried to deal with these problems ; ‘ the purge of the party was the first basic step towards the strengthening of the personnel of the party and yielded enormous results . ’ |
| 24 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 25 | That Fimbra has reached this impasse comes as no surprise to anyone with a knowledge of the chequered history of this organisation responsible for policing many of the black sheep of the financial world . |
| 26 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to end his two-year retirement . |
| 27 | The NFU says the ministry 's ESA plan comes as no surprise . |
| 28 | If we analyse the hoards of a particular region chronologically , it comes as no surprise that the periods with the largest concentration of hoards may often be those of great disruption and upheaval , such as wars . |
| 29 | It comes as no surprise that Brazil 's rural credit policy actually encourages farmers to follow bad farming practices and there is no countervailing influence to change it . |
| 30 | It comes as no surprise to learn that he was trained in Vienna in the Maulbertsch workshop . |