Example sentences of "a great pity " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is a great pity , because if one cuts out all the Freudian claptrap , Abse has produced a brilliant character analysis of the Prime Minister , and of the whole Thatcher phenomenon , which succeeded in scaring the wits out of me . |
| 2 | is the most common way to buy Derby cheese , which is a great pity as a mature , plain Derby is stronger than a one-year-old Cheddar , but very difficult to find . |
| 3 | If you do not feel you want to do this it is a great pity but at least do not avoid having your photograph taken as part of the normal course of events ( at weddings , parties , social events ) . |
| 4 | This is a great pity . |
| 5 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 6 | THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fenimore Cooper Everyman , £5.99 IT IS a great pity that James Fenimore Cooper 's novel of the American Frontier should have been , for the most part , consigned to the children 's shelf . |
| 7 | ‘ I think it is a great pity , ’ she said . |
| 8 | No Botham and no Larkins , but Dean Jones sat champing at the bit and it will be a great pity if he is prevented from emptying the nearby chemistry laboratories with the prospect of his thrilling strokeplay . |
| 9 | It is a great pity that the valley was over opened for settlement . |
| 10 | If you can go again this is no problem , but for the once-only visitor it is a great pity . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a great pity . ’ |
| 12 | There was a Dylan Thomas in Hopper , not just in his abilities but in his self-destruct mechanism and it was a great pity in many ways that he spent so many years in James Dean 's gloomy black shadow , because he is talented and perhaps even more diverse . |
| 13 | There is no better way of establishing the sea than by being lunged and it is a great pity that beginner riders are so frequently taught by the most junior members of staff . |
| 14 | It 's a great pity she ca n't be included . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it would be a great pity to send it through the post , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Practitioners of the art will certainly want their own copies ; but it would be a great pity of its readership were thus restricted . |
| 17 | This by-law has never been repealed and it is a great pity that it is not still rigidly enforced . |
| 18 | This is a great pity ; the battle between these two paradigms , that of Galton and that of Binet , is a very real one , and to pretend that it does not exist , and that there is no evidence against the paradigm adopted here , is disingenuous . |
| 19 | Whitehall did not understand him , and he certainly did not understand Whitehall — That was a great pity . |
| 20 | It is a great pity that the same word — depression — is used to describe both the common human experience of Monday morning blues and also a clinically diagnosable illness . |
| 21 | Current musical fashion may dictate a leaner , more vital Mozart style , but it would be a great pity to dismiss these beautiful and extremely musical accounts just because they fail to match present-day ideas . |
| 22 | It was a great pity she had not spoken up earlier . |
| 23 | We may feel today that things might have been better planned , and that it is a great pity that what now looks like the decisive contribution of England to world history should have been carried through with so much muddle and mess . |
| 24 | ‘ Then that 's a great pity , Vi , because you 're a true medium , I 'm sure of it . ’ |
| 25 | It was a great pity that the team was not allowed to perform at other displays during the anniversary year . |
| 26 | Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle . |
| 27 | ‘ Then it 's a great pity you did n't leave it longer . |
| 28 | As both these jobs are difficult and time-consuming they tend to get neglected until the final part of the development , which is a great pity . |
| 29 | However , that would surely be a great pity , because project work should have a great deal to offer as a means of developing reading and other skills . |
| 30 | It 's very important that young people should read books they do n't want to read ; it would be a great pity if they did n't read the literature of the past . " |