Example sentences of "comes [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if my kid comes off a pedestal , the language comes off the pedestal too . |
| 2 | As humans liberate themselves from the constraints of nature ( scarce resources ) through technology , there comes about a domination of nature . |
| 3 | So when the cry is heard again just before the curtain falls it comes as a final appeal for help . |
| 4 | School , with its white figures of authority , its totally foreign values and judgements , comes as a shock . |
| 5 | The current whirlpool of political trial and experimentation in Eastern Europe comes as a tonic contrast to the years of ideological stagnation for almost everyone except Mr Deng , President Ceausescu and , regrettably , President Fidel Castro . |
| 6 | His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity . |
| 7 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 8 | This comes as a great shock to me because it is well understood that anyone who does not like Erich Kleiber 's conducting must be a Nazi ! ’ |
| 9 | It took as its title the poem by Paul Celan , Death Comes as a Master from Germany . |
| 10 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 11 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
| 12 | The plea , from Japanese war veterans ' groups , comes as a diving team from Bristol begins an expedition in Truk Lagoon today to chart the wreckage of the Japanese 4th Fleet , which was destroyed by the Americans in February 1944 … |
| 13 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 14 | It comes as a bit of a shock to see how much faster others can sail upwind . |
| 15 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 16 | Evaluation is identified as the fourth and final style of the planning cycle but it is emphasised that evaluation is not simply something that comes as a ‘ big bang ’ at the end of the process , but that it is required throughout . |
| 17 | It comes as a result of a change in the current school user education thinking — at least in the UK . |
| 18 | Though this is an inevitable event and one we all know we must expect , the reality almost always comes as a shock . |
| 19 | The loss of that partner through death , either shortly before retirement or afterwards , comes as a bitter blow . |
| 20 | It is indeed , to some extent , a loss situation , and given society 's reverence , however misplaced , for earning power as a barometer of social status , it is hardly surprising that the change in role from breadwinner to pensioner comes as a bitter blow in many cases . |
| 21 | To someone familiar only with black holes , this behaviour of a white hole comes as a surprise . |
| 22 | IT COMES AS A SHOCK to some people to learn that we still do not have definite answers to many of the most obvious questions about animals . |
| 23 | It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that the experts are still arguing over something as basic as how a cat purrs . |
| 24 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that this is not always the case . |
| 25 | Like the Pickwick , the Owl and the Waverley pen , this volume comes as a boon and a blessing to men . |
| 26 | The dressing-down comes as a 60 per cent rise in complaints against banks was revealed yesterday . |
| 27 | It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore . |
| 28 | His latest outburst comes as a surprise , as Faldo claims he is more relaxed both on and off the course . |
| 29 | This only comes as a shock if we insist on seeing Theo in terms of sainthood . |
| 30 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |