Example sentences of "have come as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The announcement that Saudi Arabia is to buy 48 of the aircraft has come as a relief to workers at Smiths Industries in Bishops Cleeve , which supplies cockpit displays for the Tornado .
2 Washington 's success on the Pro-Tour has come as a surprise to some , not least Brian Gottfried , former touring pro and now head coach at the ATP 's headquarters in Florida .
3 The news has come as a surprise to the local council .
4 The size of these valuations , which in some cases exceed the value of the matrimonial home , has come as a surprise to many lawyers and to their clients .
5 Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’
6 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 .
7 It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner .
8 This has come as a shock to all of us , Masklin thought .
9 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 .
10 This attitude has come as a shock to many in Hollywood who are falling over themselves to sign him .
11 So this news has come as a disappointment to local business leaders .
12 The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world .
13 Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket .
14 It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners .
15 It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ .
16 For several years , we were twins , which must have come as a surprise to my mother , then slowly she fell behind as I pulled ahead , year after year .
17 Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise .
18 The honour may have come as a surprise to some , but England 's second city has never played second fiddle in the music business , spawning such performers as The Moody Blues , The Spencer Davis group , Black Sabbath , ELO , Duran Duran and UB40 .
19 Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls .
20 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 : .
21 So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock .
22 The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection .
23 For the Lancashire committee the vote ( 2,046 in favour , 961 against ) will have come as a relief , and for John Brewer in particular as something of a triumph .
24 Clovis 's death must have come as a relief to Gundobad .
25 Mr Runciman said it was decided to issue a profits warning which would have come as a bombshell .
26 Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes .
27 At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation .
28 IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise .
29 Given the possibility for agreement , albeit confused and for different reasons , from both left and right , legislation to enforce a National Curriculum should have come as no surprise to the educational world .
30 Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat .
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