Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More boys than girls are in the lowest mathematics sets although quite a number obtained fairly high test scores on the GT4 test . |
| 2 | She seemed ready to attend one of those cocktail parties where she smeared her lips on cheeks and glasses and cigarettes and napkins and biscuits and cocktail sticks until barely a foot of the room was not decorated in red . |
| 3 | ‘ Being reminded that she 's actually married always comes as rather a blow , ’ Luke commented , watching her go . |
| 4 | Stop-start combining , with most wheats still some way off ripening , comes as quite a change compared with the past two years . |
| 5 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 6 | ‘ The amount of studying for the exams comes as quite a shock ’ |