Example sentences of "it was the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz had giggled , before explaining that it was the eldest son , Ross , who now ran the family business — consisting of two merchant banks and many companies both here , in England , and abroad . |
| 2 | It was the choicest gift of Heaven . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it was the nearest approach to a foreign ministry which the country had as yet possessed . |
| 4 | It was the nearest base we could find to the track . |
| 5 | She loved Hyde Park because it was the nearest thing she 'd seen to the country side since she had arrived in the capital . |
| 6 | It was the nearest thing they could get to having a castratus ; he was already a political eunuch , him and Teixeira both . |
| 7 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 8 | It was the nearest thing to a coherent defence system yet seen at Verdun . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the nearest hospital to where he crashed his car . |
| 10 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 11 | It was the nearest Greg had come , he felt , to the real Walter Machin . |
| 12 | It was the lowest decade of house building since the Second World War . |
| 13 | Known in due course as the Deep , or Horse Level , it was the lowest tunnel which could conveniently be driven and still serve the new Bonsor Mill . |
| 14 | ‘ It was the lowest point of my life I 'd sold everything to do this trip . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was the lowest point of my life . |
| 16 | It was the lowest cause of overindebtedness , less than two per cent of people 's commitments . |
| 17 | It was the finest adventure of all , because it took place in the known world of childhood and , at the same time , released the child from the bondage of illness , old age and the death that adults died . |
| 18 | People said it was the finest playhouse in England . |
| 19 | No doubt it was the finest accolade from an old Etonian , and no doubt it meant something then when miners were regarded as dark , ignoble savages both by the respectable Brighton ladies who are a typical target for Orwell 's abuse and among the respectable , washed working class . |
| 20 | It was thick and heavy and very large across his narrow shoulders , but it was the finest jacket Frankie had ever seen , and it belonged to him . |
| 21 | . It was the finest thing in the world . |
| 22 | It was the merest thread of sound . |
| 23 | It was the merest trickle , four cubic metres a day according to Bertie , precious little for a monastery of thirty monks and related workers arid visitors . |
| 24 | It was the merest whisper but she heard it clearly , her grey eyes opening wide . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You had n't realized it was the freest way of life and so forth ? ’ |
| 27 | It was the scariest thing I did last year — that and hanging around the barrios of Medellin , the drug capital of Colombia , which boasts a murder rate ten times that of Los Angeles . |
| 28 | It was the oddest sensation . |
| 29 | ‘ So far as I could judge , it was the smoothest-running diesel of its type on the market at the time , and the quickest , ’ he says . |
| 30 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |