Example sentences of "as a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark 's address to an international audience at Trinity College , Dublin , came as a shock to European Commissioners , Government Ministers and their academic advisers . |
| 2 | I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms . |
| 3 | Our first trek , up Gunung Mulu , was the hardest of the whole expedition and came as a shock to the system . |
| 4 | He was a delightful colleague , amusing and sympathetic , and his suicide in 1973 in his early fifties came as a shock to his many friends . |
| 5 | The list of libraries will come as a shock to anyone who is unaware of what has been happening . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Emergence of difference is often experienced as a shock to the whole system , a sudden puncturing of the illusion of sameness . |
| 8 | ‘ I know it must come as a shock to you . |
| 9 | It may come as a shock to most men , but pre-adolescent boys are more likely to have a higher orgasm rate than the mature members of their sex . |
| 10 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 11 | It was plain for all to see that his father 's ultimatum had come as a shock to Jonna . |
| 12 | After the crumbling Victorian brickwork of the exterior , IAP 's ultra-modern nerve centre came as a shock to both Nadirpur and Saint Julien . |
| 13 | THE French love to smoke and it will come as a shock to them that they can no longer enjoy their Gauloises cigarettes in public . |
| 14 | This has come as a shock to all of us , Masklin thought . |
| 15 | I had been very naive when we started out in Rotherham and it came as a shock to me to realize that not everyone can see the justness of a just cause . |
| 16 | All this could come as a shock to your system if you were the shy and reticent student who hid behind more extrovert col-leagues . |
| 17 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 18 | Backpackers should make sure they 're in good shape , though , as the scale of the climbs and descents can come as a shock to UK walkers . |
| 19 | The exponential growth in CMEA debt ( from $6 billion in 1970 to $58.3 billion in 1981 ) has come as a shock to borrower and lender alike . |
| 20 | The first sight of the Princess on a rainswept quayside in Wales came as a shock to royal watchers . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 22 | This attitude has come as a shock to many in Hollywood who are falling over themselves to sign him . |
| 23 | John XXII 's independence came as a shock to Edward II , for no pope could have been more obliging to the king than Clement V , himself a former royal clerk . |
| 24 | It came as a shock to Stella , learning that educated people like Dotty Blundell and Meredith adhered to such a faith . |
| 25 | This news came as a shock to me . |
| 26 | As she had told no one except her boyfriend that she was pregnant , it came as a shock to her family . |
| 27 | For such conditioning to occur , the animal must learn to respond to a mild stimulus which would not normally cause the withdrawal in the same way as if it were a strong one , such as a shock to the tail , which does cause withdrawal . |
| 28 | Evidence of American interest in drawing together new alliances in areas of regional tension in the Third World in the early 1980s and of extending the competence of existing ones came , therefore , as a shock to Soviet leaders . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it can come as a shock to a trained accountant to discover that 21 billion of net expenditure is accounted for in this way : no assets ; no liabilities , just an excess of payments over receipts of 20 ; 8 billion compared with a budgeted excess of 20.6 billion . |
| 30 | He was so small and weak that illness was to be expected , but this still came as a shock to Tess . |