Example sentences of "it comes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to us it comes as echo , shadow . |
| 2 | Because the ‘ prig ’ has to be nailed , it comes as no surprise to find that electronic tagging seems set to join the introduction of ID cards as a means of controlling the ‘ dangerous classes ’ , for as many anthropologists have shown , the concept of movement itself is possessed of dangerous ambiguity and prevents easy classification . |
| 3 | So when the cry is heard again just before the curtain falls it comes as a final appeal for help . |
| 4 | It comes as no surprise to discover from another source that in 1921 the Kursk guberniia party committee had tried to deal with these problems ; ‘ the purge of the party was the first basic step towards the strengthening of the personnel of the party and yielded enormous results . ’ |
| 5 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 6 | It comes as an extension to SCO 's Unix V ( which is also part of the Open Desktop suite ) for systems based on Intel 's 80386 and i486 processors . |
| 7 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to end his two-year retirement . |
| 8 | If we analyse the hoards of a particular region chronologically , it comes as no surprise that the periods with the largest concentration of hoards may often be those of great disruption and upheaval , such as wars . |
| 9 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It comes as no surprise that Brazil 's rural credit policy actually encourages farmers to follow bad farming practices and there is no countervailing influence to change it . |
| 12 | It comes as no surprise to learn that he was trained in Vienna in the Maulbertsch workshop . |
| 13 | It comes as a bit of a shock to see how much faster others can sail upwind . |
| 14 | It comes as no surprise to learn that it took director Peter Greenaway a very long time to find a film company that would consider his script for more than 30 seconds . |
| 15 | It comes as no surprise to us that the LDOS has managed in recent years to attract packed houses for public meetings to oppose Sunday working at the construction site at Arnish Point near Stornoway and for the campaign against Sunday sailings to the Western Isles by Cal-Mac . |
| 16 | It comes as the central priority because without a successful economy nothing else prospers . |
| 17 | It comes as a result of a change in the current school user education thinking — at least in the UK . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So it comes as a surprise to discover that this is not always the case . |
| 21 | IT comes as no surprise that Lester Piggott is likely to return to racing even after his terrible accident on Saturday . |
| 22 | It must often seem a ‘ second best ’ situation , to be resisted as long as possible , although for some vulnerable people it comes as a relief and a right , after years of effort , to feel someone else is in charge . |
| 23 | Yep , stranded in the ITV franchise desert ( '93 , here we come ! ) , it comes as no surprise that recession-hit telly has turned to its own back catalogue for a morale boost . |
| 24 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 25 | This is the electronic version of British Rail 's timetable and it comes as no surprise to find that it 's subject to BR 's usual get-out clauses . |
| 26 | It comes as no surprise , for example , to discover that the argument about poststructuralism neglecting history was initiated by those whose own intellectual formation can be identified with the existential Marxist humanism of the New Left of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 27 | Given the concerns of the 1920s , it comes as no surprise that the initial challenge was over the issue of administrative law . |
| 28 | A reassessment of his career was due and it comes as a new monograph by Tim Hilton ( £30 , Lund Humphries ) and an exhibition which opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at the end of last month ( to 31 August ) and will be shown at The Art Warehouse in London in the autumn . |
| 29 | AS POST-DINOSAUR Jr popthrash becomes increasingly stuck in a rut of adolescent whining and indolence , it comes as a refreshing change to find a band who actually appear angry rather than mildly upset with their lot . |
| 30 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |