Sentence examples for much a shock from inspiring English sources

Why were the questions so much a shock to him?

What they represent now is not so much a shock value as an honesty value".

That the club's recollection is rather different does not keep the decision from being as much a shock to most cricket followers as it was to Hoggard himself.

The revelation that there was another story behind the one I was enjoying was as much a shock to me as it is to Pip, but that only increased my admiration for a novelist who treats his plot rather as Jaggers treats Miss Havisham in her wheelchair, using one hand to push her ahead while putting "the other in his trousers-pocket as if the pocket were full of secrets".

Not so much a shock, more "the day many in football had feared", according to BBC sports editor Dan Roan.

"Looking at the roster and how it was put together this summer, I bet it was pretty much a shock to the media on how Doc was able to get everybody to come together," Smith said.

That's why it shouldn't be a much of a shock when the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) finally admitted that its much-touted study from 2005 about the effects of "piracy" on its industry were a tad overstated.

How much of a shock was Ned's death?

This should not come as too much of a shock.

"When it happened to me," he said, "it was very much of a shock".

Competence and reliability would be too much of a shock to the system.