Example sentences of "it was [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was either the Grand or an early night . |
| 2 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | It was thus the disruptive potential of the queen 's family which Gloucester chose to stress in justifying his action . |
| 4 | It was thus the disruptive potential of the queen 's family which Gloucester chose to stress in justifying his action . |
| 5 | It was thus the very strength of the state , the power of major government departments such as the Environment or Education and Science over the somewhat ragged army of local-government officials , dons , bishops , editors , and men and women of letters that contemporaries noted . |
| 6 | For an essential paradox of the bourgeois family was that it was both the privileged location of emotionality and love , the only source in respectable ideology where it could be tolerated , and simultaneously an effective policeman of sexual behaviour . |
| 7 | Adverse weather conditions , however , caused it to withdraw into shelter and while it was away the French fleet , consisting of eight sail of the line and 24 frigates under Admiral de Forbin , managed , on 8 March , to get out to sea unintercepted . |
| 8 | In my own opinion it was largely the former . ) |
| 9 | Anyway , if such a well-bred person was unlucky enough to be afflicted with one of these ailments , he was more likely to consult some understanding physician privately ; and so it was largely the dirty and damned who attended the special clinics . |
| 10 | Although , as Marc Raeff has pointed out , it was their methods rather than their aims which were at fault , it was nevertheless the inefficient , inhumane and corrupt administration of Siberia under Pestel and Treskin , last of a long line of government-appointed regional tyrants , that was to be tackled with such determination by Alexander 's brilliant bureaucrat and disgraced official , Mikhail Speranskii ( 1722–1839 ) . |
| 11 | The miners ' strike which lasted from March 1984 to March 1985 was not the only example of industrial conflict in Britain in the past two decades , but it was easily the longest and the most violent . |
| 12 | Until the late 1950s it was practically the only effective remedy for a most distressing disorder . |
| 13 | Well it was practically the same as he did at district was n't |
| 14 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |
| 15 | It was neither the sensible shopping-basket that men bought for their wives , nor the flashy jobs rich men bought for their mistresses . |
| 16 | It was nearly the same as writing a letter home from school . |
| 17 | It was evidently the Conservative intention to associate their campaign as closely as possible with the personality of the wartime leader . |
| 18 | ‘ But it was mostly the other thing , that he 'd had to sweat all his life and she 'd never done a hand 's turn . |
| 19 | In other words it was n't the one and only example where we felt this gap but it 's simple one where remarked on it . |
| 20 | She knew that it was to do with her being pregnant , but that it was n't the simple fact of her pregnancy . |
| 21 | And he either phoned me the following morning or if it was n't the following morning it was the one after that . |
| 22 | ‘ It did n't occur to you , ’ he suggested , ‘ that it was n't the poor lady herself that you heard ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe it was n't the wisest thing to have done , ’ Lisa reflected to Josey over a cup of tea that evening . |
| 24 | It was n't the uncertain nature of his livelihood that worried him , nor the police visits , although he had twice been invited to accompany the officers to the station . |
| 25 | It was n't the best possible trial for Bodo 's eight-foot minitanker . |
| 26 | Saunders admitted : ‘ It was n't the best tackle in the world . |
| 27 | It was n't the best foot to start off on but there it was … |
| 28 | It was n't the best news to come home to — finding my renegade nephew had not only broken and entered my apartment but was bent on destroying an important career opportunity by eloping with some feather-brained teenager ! |
| 29 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
| 30 | It was n't the best |