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 | And I remembered it was here the dumb woman lived . |
| 20 | Men huddled together in groups , deep in earnest conversations ; it was here the real trading was done . |
| 21 | It was n't just the slight pain that stopped her sleeping , it was also the mental shock of what she had done . |
| 22 | It was also the first occasion on which the bishop of Rome is known to have invoked the text of Matthew 16 : 18 to justify his primatial jurisdiction . |
| 23 | It was also the first major examination in Britain of the whole nuclear controversy . |
| 24 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 25 | It was also the first time he had driven with navigator John Anthony , a retired fire officer from South Nutfield . |
| 26 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |
| 27 | It was also the first time that her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi , Allen 's new lover , was not at the traditional family meal . |
| 28 | It was also the first colony gained by conquest . |
| 29 | It was also the first to use controlled pre-heating of boiler feed-water . |
| 30 | This was the first UN resolution since 1978 which did not condemn Vietnam 's invasion of Cambodia and demand the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops ; it was also the first unanimous resolution on Cambodia . |