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

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1 Given the possibility for agreement , albeit confused and for different reasons , from both left and right , legislation to enforce a National Curriculum should have come as no surprise to the educational world .
2 Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat .
3 So it should have come as no surprise that IBM , which can no longer afford to squander money on things that only might come good , has decided to stop financing Supercomputing Systems .
4 It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder .
5 She realised that she was much too aware of him , but this should have come as no surprise .
6 So it should have come as no real surprise to me to discover that the ’ gear ’ Penny so briefly dismissed included a 17 foot aluminium boat , 24hp outboard , a trailer ( obviously ) , a seine net and a lot of angling equipment .
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