Example sentences of "come [conj] something of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it may come as something of a surprise to find that , during the English Civil War , the Parliamentarian party , which controlled London and the mint in the Tower , emphasised its legitimacy by continuing to issue coinage in the king 's name , whereas at the Royalist mint of Oxford the king 's coinage proclaims : ‘ RELIG PROT LEG ANG LIBER PAR ’ ( ’ The religion of the Protestants , the laws of England and the liberty of Parliament ’ ) . |
| 2 | In others , it will come as something of a surprise , and there may then be a need for the child to undergo further diagnostic tests to establish the extent of the problem . |
| 3 | It might come as something of a surprise to learn that he is now considered to be an Englishman . |
| 4 | The use of the word publish in this context may come as something of a shock but that 's exactly what the dissemination of information in printed form is ; publishing . |
| 5 | It may come as something of a shock to discover that up to 10% of your company 's turnover is actually being diverted to running a second business . |