Sentence examples for as rather a shock from inspiring English sources
For visitors to his home, however, the reality of Jeremy's country lifestyle came as rather a shock.
However, it's largely unprecedented in the UK, let alone in this corner of north-east London, and has come as rather a shock to some.
This came as rather a shock - albeit a pleasant one - for Schopp as he had no recollection of Dumas ever having written about Josephine's debts - nor had it been mentioned in any Dumas bibliographies.
The décor is reminiscent of a rundown airport's business-class lounge — its teal-leather chairs and scuffed rug's swirly abstractions scream layover in Bangor; the absence of a plate of complimentary cheese cubes comes as rather a shock.
So to find out the subject of The Man Who Discovered Egypt (BBC4) was Flinders Petrie, a Victorian Brit of whom I'd never heard and who only started digging around the Nile in the late 19th century, came as rather a shock.
He described being present at the birth as "rather a grown-up thing... a shock to my system".
One thinks of him as a visionary, and it is rather a shock to come across Piranesi in the correspondence of Robert Adam, where he seems like a pesky nuisance.
It rather came as a shock that kids start to watch porn online as early as 6 years old.
And Seidel's nastiness seems, in this work, a necessary defense against fear, rather than a shock tactic that has escalated as his readers' interest has dwindled.
Rather than coming as a shock, the announcement seems anticlimactic.
