Example sentences of "it was [adv] [art] relief " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thus a relief to overhear The Angelic Conversation ( ReVision , PG , rental ) , whose background noise is provided by Dame Judi Dench drooling sonorously over Shakespearean sonnets . |
| 2 | It was rather a relief . |
| 3 | It was undeniably a relief . |
| 4 | But it was also a relief . |
| 5 | It was somehow a relief when , the following morning , she was delivered of a girl . |
| 6 | It was quite a relief to hear Felicity lapse into the phraseology of Pinehurst days . |
| 7 | Sounds a little crazy , but it was quite a relief at the time to be able to switch my miseries around . |
| 8 | I did not venture to express my opinion , fearing that my taste might have become corrupted by my long residence in the Indies ; but since my companion had recently come from France , it was quite a relief to hear him say that he had seen nothing in Europe quite so bold and majestic . ’ |
| 9 | After seeing so many beatifically smiling faces of Mao , Chou , and Hua , as well as many jolly workers engaged in various agricultural and industrial pursuits , it was quite a relief to enter a large room the walls of which were absolutely covered with vitriolic cartoons against the gang of four . |
| 10 | It was quite a relief too , that you backed off the Pakistan venture . |
| 11 | And I 'd had a car crash and it was quite a relief not to have to worry about performing . |
| 12 | But it was still a relief for British fans . |
| 13 | Moving round the archways of Valencia 's bull-ring where , that night , Nirvana would give Spain its first in-the-flesh taste of what this nonsense was all about , it was almost a relief to greet Kurt Cobain once again , a paler , bleached-haired , bespectacled Kurt Cobain , but recognisably the same lovable scruff who late last year turned rock 'n' roll upside down with a song named after a deodorant . |
| 14 | I was drained after meeting Normandin and when Mary and I got to Roger Auque 's hotel , it was almost a relief to find that he was out . |
| 15 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 16 | It was almost a relief to be being attacked on this particular issue , because there were other far more personal ones to be dreaded . |
| 17 | I think it was almost a relief to him — after all this time . ’ |
| 18 | It was almost a relief when the door opposite suddenly opened and Ettore Di Leonardo appeared , immaculate as ever in a dark suit and sober tie . |
| 19 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 20 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |