Example sentences of "comes [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the ‘ prig ’ has to be nailed , it comes as no surprise to find that electronic tagging seems set to join the introduction of ID cards as a means of controlling the ‘ dangerous classes ’ , for as many anthropologists have shown , the concept of movement itself is possessed of dangerous ambiguity and prevents easy classification . |
| 2 | When it is also remembered that Belorussia had the lowest literacy rate of all European Russia , the sluggish response of the denizens of the Roslavl' area comes as no surprise . |
| 3 | It comes as no surprise to discover from another source that in 1921 the Kursk guberniia party committee had tried to deal with these problems ; ‘ the purge of the party was the first basic step towards the strengthening of the personnel of the party and yielded enormous results . ’ |
| 4 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 5 | That Fimbra has reached this impasse comes as no surprise to anyone with a knowledge of the chequered history of this organisation responsible for policing many of the black sheep of the financial world . |
| 6 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to end his two-year retirement . |
| 7 | The NFU says the ministry 's ESA plan comes as no surprise . |
| 8 | If we analyse the hoards of a particular region chronologically , it comes as no surprise that the periods with the largest concentration of hoards may often be those of great disruption and upheaval , such as wars . |
| 9 | It comes as no surprise that Brazil 's rural credit policy actually encourages farmers to follow bad farming practices and there is no countervailing influence to change it . |
| 10 | It comes as no surprise to learn that he was trained in Vienna in the Maulbertsch workshop . |
| 11 | This comes as no surprise to the house-owner , and is only the culmination of years of dissatisfaction with the building industry . |
| 12 | It comes as no surprise to learn that it took director Peter Greenaway a very long time to find a film company that would consider his script for more than 30 seconds . |
| 13 | It comes as no surprise to us that the LDOS has managed in recent years to attract packed houses for public meetings to oppose Sunday working at the construction site at Arnish Point near Stornoway and for the campaign against Sunday sailings to the Western Isles by Cal-Mac . |
| 14 | If this comes as no surprise to you , then you can skip this section . |
| 15 | The generosity of machine knitters comes as no surprise to us — it is one of the first things one notices about them . |
| 16 | The fact that Marianne places a great deal of store by marriage but not its permanence comes as no surprise to Warren Colman . |
| 17 | THE sudden explosion of wrath between Gary Lineker and Graham Taylor comes as no surprise to close observers of the England camp . |
| 18 | IT comes as no surprise that Lester Piggott is likely to return to racing even after his terrible accident on Saturday . |
| 19 | Yep , stranded in the ITV franchise desert ( '93 , here we come ! ) , it comes as no surprise that recession-hit telly has turned to its own back catalogue for a morale boost . |
| 20 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 21 | Of course , in one way , this comes as no surprise . |
| 22 | This is the electronic version of British Rail 's timetable and it comes as no surprise to find that it 's subject to BR 's usual get-out clauses . |
| 23 | It comes as no surprise , for example , to discover that the argument about poststructuralism neglecting history was initiated by those whose own intellectual formation can be identified with the existential Marxist humanism of the New Left of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 24 | Given the concerns of the 1920s , it comes as no surprise that the initial challenge was over the issue of administrative law . |
| 25 | So it comes as no surprise to learn that the new film by veteran director Robert Altman — The Player — has been the most talked about movie in studio parking lots and Beverly Hills brasseries this year . |
| 26 | This comes as no surprise . |
| 27 | The mill at Ballygrant is of the nineteenth century but one would expect that there was an older one at Baile Grana Grain Township , and one at Cornabus Corn Farm , comes as no surprise . |
| 28 | It comes as no surprise to … science , ’ she said with a disapproving emphasis upon the final word . |
| 29 | It comes as no surprise to learn of NASA 's resistance to Sanskrit as a language for AI . |
| 30 | The yacht being of Scandinavian build , it comes as no surprise to find that the joiner work throughout the accommodation is of stained African mahogany . |