Example sentences of "[not/n't] come [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 War or no war , the Government 's other business had not come to a halt .
2 ‘ I 've not come for a drink .
3 Temple 's decision to increase its offer had not come as a surprise , he said , and the SeaCo board would meet next week to consider its response .
4 She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls .
5 On the one hand for environmental reasons , for their environmental reasons I should say , and on the other hand so as not to come as a nuisance to residents of existing communities .
6 She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing .
7 Well no , we got two in the sidelines , we got this Indian guy who was not coming for a second interview until we can say we 'll pay him
8 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 .
9 This did not come as a surprise .
10 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 .
11 Discovering Afghanistan Festival of Afghan culture , billed as London 's first of its kind , which may or may not come as a great surprise .
12 Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck .
13 This may not come as a surprise to most of you , but relations between Britain — particularly England — and France are not at their best .
14 A spokesman said : ‘ Because of the current economic climate it did not come as a shock .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 This fact is known to managers and should therefore not come as a surprise each time it arises .
18 It need not come as a surprise to learn that Wittgenstein is in his own way a foundationalist .
19 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 .
20 I hope that that does not come as a total surprise to him , as it appears to .
21 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 .
22 The move to merge did not come as a great surprise to the shareholders of either company .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 As a consequence , evolution normally does not come to a halt , but constantly ‘ tracks ’ the changing environment .
28 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 .
29 It does not come for a couple of times .
30 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 .
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