Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] as a shock " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it must come as a shock to you . |
| 2 | All this could come as a shock to your system if you were the shy and reticent student who hid behind more extrovert col-leagues . |
| 3 | It may come as a shock . |
| 4 | It may come as a shock to most men , but pre-adolescent boys are more likely to have a higher orgasm rate than the mature members of their sex . |
| 5 | The list of libraries will come as a shock to anyone who is unaware of what has been happening . |
| 6 | THE French love to smoke and it will come as a shock to them that they can no longer enjoy their Gauloises cigarettes in public . |
| 7 | It can come as a shock to have to buy every stamp , tube of toothpaste or bar of soap as well as to wash and press favourite clothes before going out , and to change and launder their own bed linen . |
| 8 | Backpackers should make sure they 're in good shape , though , as the scale of the climbs and descents can come as a shock to UK walkers . |
| 9 | It can come as a shock if one sees the tiny scale of monsters or creatures that appear quite huge on-screen . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it can come as a shock to a trained accountant to discover that 21 billion of net expenditure is accounted for in this way : no assets ; no liabilities , just an excess of payments over receipts of 20 ; 8 billion compared with a budgeted excess of 20.6 billion . |