Example sentences of "[not/n't] come as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discovering Afghanistan Festival of Afghan culture , billed as London 's first of its kind , which may or may not come as a great surprise . |
| 2 | The move to merge did not come as a great surprise to the shareholders of either company . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I hope that that does not come as a total surprise to him , as it appears to . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It seems the attack did n't come as a total surprise . |
| 8 | What about the skills which are very important but do n't come as a formal part of any subject , the so-called communication skills ? |