Example sentences of "comes [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if my kid comes off a pedestal , the language comes off the pedestal too . |
| 2 | As humans liberate themselves from the constraints of nature ( scarce resources ) through technology , there comes about a domination of nature . |
| 3 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 4 | So when the cry is heard again just before the curtain falls it comes as a final appeal for help . |
| 5 | School , with its white figures of authority , its totally foreign values and judgements , comes as a shock . |
| 6 | The current whirlpool of political trial and experimentation in Eastern Europe comes as a tonic contrast to the years of ideological stagnation for almost everyone except Mr Deng , President Ceausescu and , regrettably , President Fidel Castro . |
| 7 | His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity . |
| 8 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 9 | This comes as a great shock to me because it is well understood that anyone who does not like Erich Kleiber 's conducting must be a Nazi ! ’ |
| 10 | It took as its title the poem by Paul Celan , Death Comes as a Master from Germany . |
| 11 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 12 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
| 13 | The plea , from Japanese war veterans ' groups , comes as a diving team from Bristol begins an expedition in Truk Lagoon today to chart the wreckage of the Japanese 4th Fleet , which was destroyed by the Americans in February 1944 … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It comes as a bit of a shock to see how much faster others can sail upwind . |
| 16 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 17 | Evaluation is identified as the fourth and final style of the planning cycle but it is emphasised that evaluation is not simply something that comes as a ‘ big bang ’ at the end of the process , but that it is required throughout . |
| 18 | It comes as a result of a change in the current school user education thinking — at least in the UK . |
| 19 | Though this is an inevitable event and one we all know we must expect , the reality almost always comes as a shock . |
| 20 | The loss of that partner through death , either shortly before retirement or afterwards , comes as a bitter blow . |
| 21 | It is indeed , to some extent , a loss situation , and given society 's reverence , however misplaced , for earning power as a barometer of social status , it is hardly surprising that the change in role from breadwinner to pensioner comes as a bitter blow in many cases . |
| 22 | To someone familiar only with black holes , this behaviour of a white hole comes as a surprise . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that this is not always the case . |
| 26 | Like the Pickwick , the Owl and the Waverley pen , this volume comes as a boon and a blessing to men . |
| 27 | The dressing-down comes as a 60 per cent rise in complaints against banks was revealed yesterday . |
| 28 | It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore . |
| 29 | His latest outburst comes as a surprise , as Faldo claims he is more relaxed both on and off the course . |
| 30 | This only comes as a shock if we insist on seeing Theo in terms of sainthood . |