Example sentences of "it 's a great pity " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a great pity she ca n't be included . |
| 2 | ‘ Then it 's a great pity you did n't leave it longer . |
| 3 | I feel that for a country with so much to offer , it 's a great pity that people do not take more advantage of what 's available . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know , I 'm sure , what you two were up to last night , and it 's none of my business , but it 's a great pity that Carole has packed her bags , ’ she said . |
| 5 | It 's a great pity he did n't preserve any detail , and he looked , er , like all his other papers had been left in the library of Congress until two thousand and twenty five , and then they will all become public . |
| 6 | ‘ And it 's a great pity that revue died — and virtually died with us . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a great pity it 's not a British company , because it 's it 's would be a great source of revenue in this country . |
| 8 | I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers . |
| 9 | It 's a great pity it 's not the right one . ’ |
| 10 | I think it 's a great pity . |