Example sentences of "come as a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did your experience at drama school come as a great surprise to you ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her death had come as a great shock to him . |
| 5 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
| 6 | However , it came as a great shock to Richard when , some time later , this friend fell into profanity and drunkenness . |
| 7 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 8 | It came as a great shock . |
| 9 | Sir , — Your report of the Whitehill Town Council 's comments on our — Oak Lodge and Chestnut Court — minibus appeal came as a great shock to our residents , and a reply must be made . |
| 10 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 11 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 12 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 13 | This came as a great shock to my parents , especially my mother . |
| 14 | In spite of this precaution , the speech came as a great shock to most of the officers in Algeria , indeed to the army as a whole . |
| 15 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 16 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 17 | Abdullah 's wife , Norjan and two daughters , were allowed to leave Iraq last month after the family was taken hostage while on a pilg pilgrimage ; she says the news of his release came as a great shock . |
| 18 | This debacle came as a great blow to the confident pilots of 249 , epitomised by its effect on Flg.Off . |
| 19 | Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel . |
| 20 | The fact that manipulation was possible even in the almost unadulterated democracy of the congress came as a great surprise to most delegates . |
| 21 | Gavin , who chose The Crusades , 1095–1154 , as his final specialist subject , said : ‘ It came as a great surprise to win . |
| 22 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 23 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 24 | That came as a great surprise to me I can tell you . |
| 25 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 26 | He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that . |
| 27 | ( News that funding for Isis , the complementary neutron source at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories , would stay fixed until 1997 came as a great relief to scientists in the UK . ) |
| 28 | Discovering Afghanistan Festival of Afghan culture , billed as London 's first of its kind , which may or may not come as a great surprise . |
| 29 | Staring into the pretty face for a moment , Agnes nodded , saying , ‘ That 'll come as a great surprise to him . |
| 30 | ‘ Did it come as a great surprise to you ? ’ |