Sentence examples for bit of a nerve from inspiring English sources

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It does hit a bit of a nerve with us".

As old as war itself Maybe we "Westerners" have a bit of a nerve to denounce the destruction of Syria's antiquity.

It's clear that the blurring of boundaries between the audience and the performers in such works hits a bit of a nerve; are the structures of traditional theatre, including the union, fitted to tackle this kind of experimental work?

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Dr. Konigsberg said the same thing, calling the discovery process "a bit of a nerve-racking game".

It is a "direct cut" recording, straight to vinyl, which is a bit of a nerve-wracking experience for the musicians, producers and engineers at Air Studios in London.

"Being a country with a long history of colonial oppression, people being evicted touches a bit of a raw nerve with a lot of people," said Paul Joyce, senior policy analyst at Free Legal Advice Centers, a rights organization that campaigns on debt and other issues.

"It did touch a bit of a raw nerve about the partnership between the two companies that people thought was completely inappropriate – for a toy company like Lego to partner with an oil corporation – which is a sign of changes that are happening [in public attitudes towards fossil fuel companies]," he said.

For modern pentathlon hope Freyja Prentice, it was sports psychology: "She had a bit of a problem with nerves.

Adams, 30, the first woman to win Olympic boxing gold, said after getting her MBE: "I think it was a bit of a mixture of nerves and excitement rolled into one," while Kenny, whose two sprint cycling medals won him an OBE, said: "The Queen said she was very happy to give me the medal, so I said 'thank you very much'".

It takes a bit of nerve to stage such a conference in the midst of a crisis of economic, financial, energy, political and military woes.

It takes a bit of nerve, I think, to start a novel with a lengthy quotation from an as yet unidentified speaker, unless you mean to try the reader's patience from the outset.

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