Example sentences of "[verb] come as a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The announcement that Saudi Arabia is to buy 48 of the aircraft has come as a relief to workers at Smiths Industries in Bishops Cleeve , which supplies cockpit displays for the Tornado . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The news has come as a surprise to the local council . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’ |
6 | I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms . |
7 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
8 | This has come as a shock to all of us , Masklin thought . |
9 | The exponential growth in CMEA debt ( from $6 billion in 1970 to $58.3 billion in 1981 ) has come as a shock to borrower and lender alike . |
10 | This attitude has come as a shock to many in Hollywood who are falling over themselves to sign him . |
11 | So this news has come as a disappointment to local business leaders . |
12 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ’ . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |
20 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
21 | So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock . |
22 | The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection . |
23 | For the Lancashire committee the vote ( 2,046 in favour , 961 against ) will have come as a relief , and for John Brewer in particular as something of a triumph . |
24 | Clovis 's death must have come as a relief to Gundobad . |
25 | Mr Runciman said it was decided to issue a profits warning which would have come as a bombshell . |
26 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
27 | At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation . |
28 | ‘ It seems to have come as a shock to you , ’ he observed . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | ‘ Little Violetta seems to have come as a bit of an afterthought . |