Example sentences of "[adv] come as a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |
| 3 | He usually comes as a stranger to the affairs of a company which has sunk to its financial doom . |
| 4 | IT ALWAYS COMES as a surprise to Nancy Kominsky that so many people still remember her for her television series in the late 1970s . |
| 5 | This summer will now come as a boon to the pressurised Irish representative players . |
| 6 | It may even come as a surprise to some to learn that fish and chips is opaque at all ; but one needs only to consider that not any kind of fish , nor any method of cooking and presentation , will qualify for the description , and that this is not true of , say , chips and fish or even fish with chips , both of which are transparent . |
| 7 | The ease with which even the bourgeois travel nowadays comes as an agony to one who has ‘ the Bosphorus in the soul ’ . |
| 8 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 9 | The latter phenomenon would not actually come as a surprise to regional economists . |