Example sentences of "[conj] it was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was evidently regarded as a heavy burden by the English government , although it was the merest tumulus compared with the great Everest of debts owed by the Emperor Charles V. The English Crown had escaped large-scale indebtedness by selling Crown lands , which produced 32 per cent of the total revenue raised for war , and by debasing the coinage , which produced just about as much . |
| 2 | Grangemouth was also developing rapidly although it was the early part of the present century before substantial tonnages were handled . |
| 3 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 4 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 5 | Well , I could hardly say no , although it was the last thing I wanted . |
| 6 | Although it was the last thing on their minds . |
| 7 | This was n't an especially spectacular event , although it was the biggest eruption on Etna for some years , and there were no casualties , but none the less it was very instructive . |
| 8 | It might be that it was the incessant closeness to blood , death and suffering that brought out these sentiments in men who had , on the whole , been raised in an education system that rejected such responses as feminine and unmasculine , and that promoted an abstract conception of justice and a stern morality of obedience to rules . |
| 9 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 10 | My local authority of Calderdale spent responsibly , and a Government Department patted it on the back , saying that it was the second most efficient metropolitan authority in the country . |
| 11 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 12 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 13 | I explained that I had felt that it was the right thing to do ; it expressed what I felt . |
| 14 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 15 | Consequently , Dun & Bradstreet Software also failed to convince Pearl that it was the right choice for the future . |
| 16 | He had blazed like a comet across Vietnam and the light did as much as anything in 1951 to dazzle the US and to persuade them that their assessments were right , that it was the right war and that , on certain conditions , it might also be a winnable war . |
| 17 | She signed because she was persuaded that it was the right thing to do , not because her husband 's pressure deprived her consent of reality . |
| 18 | But if the theory was mathematically consistent and always gave predictions that agreed with observations , we could be reasonably confident that it was the right one . |
| 19 | The managers Hospitality spoke to about the buyout were all convinced that it was the right route for the business . |
| 20 | I am proud to confess that , in the 1970s , I campaigned for a national minimum wage because I felt that it was the right thing to do then . |
| 21 | I then went on to think about who had clipped Secretary of State Samson 's golden locks and , once again , I realised that it was the right hon. Member for Finchley . |
| 22 | And both concluded with an inner shrug that it was the right thing for the job in hand ; anything else could wait . |
| 23 | ‘ How did you know that it was the right body ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I thought I loved him — that it was the right sort of love . |
| 25 | He says that it was the right decision . |
| 26 | Erm , put into the that it was the right packet . |
| 27 | Evans makes clear , in discussing a refutation of the Cartesian view of animal nature by a Jesuit , Père Bougeant ( 1739 ) , that it was the received ecclesiastical view that Satan 's allies , the myriad horde of fallen devils due for torment at the Day of Judgement , occupied themselves in the meantime by taking over the bodies of new-born babies and those of any other creatures . |
| 28 | But Dierdriu only smiled at him , and Fergus saw that it was the cruel , charming smile of her ancestors , who had lain with the wolves . |
| 29 | Did he intend to give the impression that it was the central aspect ? |
| 30 | For most of the two centuries since that phenomenon began the conventional explanation has been that it was the new technology ( the spinning-jenny , the new weaving frames , and the steam engine ) which gave rise to the factory . |