Example sentences of "have come [prep] [art] surprise " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She realised that she was much too aware of him , but this should have come as no surprise . |