Example sentences of "[not/n't] come [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It really should not come as a surprise to find Lewis , who continues his professional career tonight against Bradford 's Steve Garber at Hull City Hall , owning up to such an unexpected hobby . |
| 2 | This did not come as a surprise . |
| 3 | Given the importance of this area of Russia in the Civil War and the Polish campaign , the Party 's care for and vigilance over the army does not come as a surprise ; nor does the considerable military presence in 1922 in civilian organizations like the hospital and the automobile workshop . |
| 4 | Discovering Afghanistan Festival of Afghan culture , billed as London 's first of its kind , which may or may not come as a great surprise . |
| 5 | Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck . |
| 6 | This may not come as a surprise to most of you , but relations between Britain — particularly England — and France are not at their best . |
| 7 | A spokesman said : ‘ Because of the current economic climate it did not come as a shock . |
| 8 | If Lamb 's sacking does not come as a major shock then Gower 's latest axing is mind-blowingly baffling following his much trumpeted recall for the third Cornhill Test match at Old Trafford . |
| 9 | Generally , infertility does not come as a sudden cut-off point ; rather it declines gradually , and when it is observed we have to look for the cause in the interdependence breakdown , and not just regard it as a shortage of one or other nutrients . |
| 10 | This fact is known to managers and should therefore not come as a surprise each time it arises . |
| 11 | It need not come as a surprise to learn that Wittgenstein is in his own way a foundationalist . |
| 12 | It did not come as a startling revelation — no blinding flash of illumination , only a possibility that he had not previously considered , something that was worth checking . |
| 13 | I hope that that does not come as a total surprise to him , as it appears to . |
| 14 | The fact that her husband was having a homosexual relationship does not come as a surprise but it is more difficult for Blanche to accept because he needed help but she caused his death by saying that he ‘ disgusted ’ her . |
| 15 | The move to merge did not come as a great surprise to the shareholders of either company . |
| 16 | It seems a pity that the gun does not come with a reflector nozzle ( to work near window panes without cracking the glass , for example ) , but this is only a minor point . |
| 17 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 18 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 19 | If men trained in the learned profession did not , perhaps , scale such heights in the later sixteenth century , at the same time the crossing of career lines did not come to a halt . |
| 20 | As a consequence , evolution normally does not come to a halt , but constantly ‘ tracks ’ the changing environment . |
| 21 | If the new if the new settlement proves successful , it will have an impetus all its own and therefore it will not come to a full stop in two thousand and six . |
| 22 | It does not come for a couple of times . |
| 23 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 24 | The bolt of lightning did not come until a week later . |
| 25 | One thing , though , I will not come in a condom . |
| 26 | This fuller appreciation may result from a short or a long article , even occasionally some unexpected insight or well-phrased judgement ; but it will not come from a brief comment off the cuff , an item of gossip , or a mere listing . |
| 27 | Mr Devaty is one of the few dissidents who do not come from a Prague-based intellectual background . |
| 28 | It was a very neatly packaged piece of disinformation planted on Pincher that carried added credibility since it did not come from a government source but from an opposition Privy Councillor . |
| 29 | Strictly speaking the extreme ultraviolet light does not come from a laser , but it does retain the coherence of the original . |
| 30 | He did not come from a showbusiness family . |