Example sentences of "come as a great [noun] " 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 . |