Example sentences of "has come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
| 2 | But the news has come as a total shock for many people . |
| 3 | Tearful Mandy said : ‘ This has come as a total surprise to me and my family . |
| 4 | This has come as a terrible shock . |
| 5 | ‘ This has come as a terrible shock . |
| 6 | Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers . |
| 7 | His death today has come as a complete shock . |
| 8 | I 'm sure this has come as a big shock to you . |
| 9 | The decision to sell Harford has come as a big blow to Luton boss David Pleat who said : ‘ I did n't want him to go but the club needs the money . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention . |
| 11 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
| 12 | The ruling has come as a bitter blow Brain Goldsworthy 's common law wife . |
| 13 | Political defeat has come as a profound shock for the ruling Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP ) . |
| 14 | All this has come as an unpleasant surprise to Hong Kong 's officials . |
| 15 | The Third Force has come into the Christian spectrum , and it is a force to be reckoned with . |
| 16 | Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’ |
| 17 | Trained by Nicky Henderson and the mount of Richard Dunwoody , Flown has come through a satisfactory preparation for the step-up to the ultimate test today . |
| 18 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 19 | CHEMICALS group Courtaulds has come through the past year with a 3pc profits rise but is far from confident market conditions will be any easier in 1993 . |
| 20 | When a challenge has not , at a certain point in time , been countered by a riposte , then the person who has suffered injury has come under the symbolic power of the challenger . |
| 21 | Yet , like most faiths in the twentieth century , Christianity has come under the hypnotic spell of this modern attitude , and Christians are beguiled into behaving as it demands . |
| 22 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 23 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 24 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
| 25 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
| 26 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 27 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
| 28 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
| 29 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 30 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |