Example sentences of "may have come as " in BNC.

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1 The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world .
2 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 ’ .
3 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 .
4 For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum .
5 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 .
6 NEIL Kinnock 's slightly manic conducting of Men of Harlech at Egglescliffe School on Friday may have come as a mild surprise to the attendant gentlemen of the Press .
7 Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls .
8 He may have come as a very self- satisfied person , after all , socially , he had made it .
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