Example sentences of "came [prep] [art] [adj] shock " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as a mild shock to realise that there was none . |
| 2 | ‘ Although Steven said he 'd heard arguing , I never had so it came as a complete shock . ’ |
| 3 | News of the redundancies came as a complete shock . |
| 4 | Naturally the news came as a terrible shock to her . |
| 5 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 6 | It sometimes came as a slight shock to Wycliffe to have this paragon of the modern virtues working under his direction . |
| 7 | However , it came as a great shock to Richard when , some time later , this friend fell into profanity and drunkenness . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It came as a great shock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This came as a great shock to my parents , especially my mother . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Which was why the writ which arrived on the desk of Virgin 's lawyer , Stephen Navin , in September 1979 from solicitors representing Gordon Matthew Sumner , came as a particular shock . |
| 20 | Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship . |
| 21 | It came as a considerable shock , therefore , when , on 24 January 1977 , the Chief Executive of the Mid-Glamorgan County Council received a letter from the Welsh Education Office of the DES stating the government 's intention of removing courses of teacher-training from the Polytechnic as part of the overall plan to reduce the number of teacher-training places in the Principality to 2,850 by 1981 . |
| 22 | It was so sudden that even her doctors were taken by surprise , and to her husband the news came as a profound shock . |
| 23 | For Europeans , however , the German rearmament proposal , so soon after 1945 , came as a profound shock . |
| 24 | The thought that this slave had known home and care , perhaps even love , came as a sudden shock to Jess . |
| 25 | After the greyness of war-scarred London , tired , shabby and impoverished , the Mediterranean came as a sudden shock . |
| 26 | Adrift in a new world of rapture , it came as the profoundest shock to Paige to feel Travis push himself up and away from her . |
| 27 | The publication of Humani Generis came as an especial shock to the Catholic world because the theological developments it criticized had passed largely unnoticed . |
| 28 | ‘ I understand that you were distraught beyond measure , I understand that Mark 's letter came as an almighty shock . |
| 29 | The United States decision in July 1990 to withdraw its support from the seating of the rebel National Government of Cambodia at the UN and to enter into dialogue with Vietnam came as an immense shock to the ASEAN members [ see p. 37598 ] . |
| 30 | It came like an electric shock . |