Example sentences of "have come [prep] [art] surprise " in BNC.
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| 1 | Washington 's success on the Pro-Tour has come as a surprise to some , not least Brian Gottfried , former touring pro and now head coach at the ATP 's headquarters in Florida . |
| 2 | The news has come as a surprise to the local council . |
| 3 | The size of these valuations , which in some cases exceed the value of the matrimonial home , has come as a surprise to many lawyers and to their clients . |
| 4 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 5 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 6 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
| 7 | It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ . |
| 8 | For several years , we were twins , which must have come as a surprise to my mother , then slowly she fell behind as I pulled ahead , year after year . |
| 9 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
| 10 | The honour may have come as a surprise to some , but England 's second city has never played second fiddle in the music business , spawning such performers as The Moody Blues , The Spencer Davis group , Black Sabbath , ELO , Duran Duran and UB40 . |
| 11 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |
| 12 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 13 | Given the possibility for agreement , albeit confused and for different reasons , from both left and right , legislation to enforce a National Curriculum should have come as no surprise to the educational world . |
| 14 | Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat . |
| 15 | So it should have come as no surprise that IBM , which can no longer afford to squander money on things that only might come good , has decided to stop financing Supercomputing Systems . |
| 16 | She realised that she was much too aware of him , but this should have come as no surprise . |
| 17 | The revelation that the villagers recognised four types of diarrhoea seems to have come as a surprise to BRAC , suggesting insufficient research on the part of BRAC prior to launching its programme . |
| 18 | He had achieved a position of some prominence in the Senate between 1942 and 1944 but his choice as Roosevelt 's vice-presidential running mate at the Democratic convention in July 1944 had come as a surprise . |
| 19 | It was because she 'd never taken him seriously that the whole thing had come as a surprise . |
| 20 | Hammie Smillie , head of ScottishPower 's customer service , said in Glasgow yesterday that the introduction of VAT had come as a surprise . |