Example sentences of "come [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Trained by Nicky Henderson and the mount of Richard Dunwoody , Flown has come through a satisfactory preparation for the step-up to the ultimate test today .
2 New York has always been the place to come for a good show trial .
3 These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building .
4 After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean .
5 Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen .
6 But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party .
7 The time had come for a deaf person to occupy it and Hudson 's chairmanship therefore lasted only three years .
8 The time has come for a radical re-examination of the provision of services for this particularly disadvantaged group of people .
9 We must recognize that the time has come for a national crusade against pornography .
10 This has come as a terrible shock .
11 ‘ This has come as a terrible shock .
12 For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum .
13 It 's come as a major surprise to his friends at the training club .
14 Charles Tompkins , managing director of NOS , a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless , said the contract has come as a major breakthrough for his company , propelling it into the major league of offshore suppliers .
15 ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock .
16 This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself .
17 The knowledge that fitzAlan had a family had come as a strange shock .
18 His success had come as a complete surprise to him .
19 It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder .
20 It had been clear that Artai 's decision to name Jehan as a member of the embassy had come as a complete surprise .
21 The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan .
22 His death today has come as a complete shock .
23 NEIL Kinnock 's slightly manic conducting of Men of Harlech at Egglescliffe School on Friday may have come as a mild surprise to the attendant gentlemen of the Press .
24 Did your experience at drama school come as a great surprise to you ?
25 Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts .
26 Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors .
27 Her death had come as a great shock to him .
28 Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock .
29 Tearful Mandy said : ‘ This has come as a total surprise to me and my family .
30 He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat .
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