Example sentences of "it comes [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the light comes , after a few seconds , it comes as a sunrise . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |
| 4 | It comes as a shock , I have to tell you , to anyone who 's spent a lifetime dealing with the perfectly decent chaps you run into at Thames Water . ’ |
| 5 | It comes as a bit of a shock to see how much faster others can sail upwind . |
| 6 | Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils . |
| 7 | It must often seem a ‘ second best ’ situation , to be resisted as long as possible , although for some vulnerable people it comes as a relief and a right , after years of effort , to feel someone else is in charge . |
| 8 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 9 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 10 | It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that the experts are still arguing over something as basic as how a cat purrs . |
| 11 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that this is not always the case . |
| 12 | No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events . |
| 13 | For something so very Italian it comes as a surprise to learn that the juniper harvested by the Scarponis has a British connection — it is the main ingredient in that quintessential British drink — Gordon 's Gin . |
| 14 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that there is one section of the department which does have regular problems of robbery and criminal damage — our Parking Section . |
| 15 | It comes as a result of a change in the current school user education thinking — at least in the UK . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It comes as no surprise to learn that he was trained in Vienna in the Maulbertsch workshop . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | IT comes as no surprise that Lester Piggott is likely to return to racing even after his terrible accident on Saturday . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Given the concerns of the 1920s , it comes as no surprise that the initial challenge was over the issue of administrative law . |