Example sentences of "was also the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also the finest love song since Joy Division 's ‘ Love Will Tear Us Apart ’ . |
| 2 | The closure of Shotton Works , with 8,200 jobs in 1981 , was the largest factory closure in Europe , but Britain 's programme of steel industry cuts , led by Ian MacGregor in the period 1979 to 1981 , was also the largest in Europe . |
| 3 | It was n't just the slight pain that stopped her sleeping , it was also the mental shock of what she had done . |
| 4 | There was also the famous time when Sir Ralph had kissed Mark Fisher , Labour 's front bench spokesman for the Arts , on his bald pate at the end of a drunken speech in the House . |
| 5 | There was also the personal one . |
| 6 | As much if not more Gaulliste than de Gaulle , d'Argenlieu , a regular naval officer , was also the former prior of a Carmelite monastery . |
| 7 | The reprieve of the S&C , besides marking the rightful conclusion to a tale of deceit and neglect , was also the first closure proposal vetoed by the Conservative Government under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | A Vietnamese airport official said they went through the usual passport and customs procedures and then boarded buses to Soc San reception centre which was also the first stop for almost 600 boat people who returned voluntarily from Hong Kong earlier this year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was also the first man to use the word ‘ Americanism ’ in 1781 . |
| 11 | It was also the first major examination in Britain of the whole nuclear controversy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | H p Hn Tomi was the third Rottweiler to achieve the title in Finland and was also the first bitch to do so , again in 1948 . |
| 14 | Zenobia was also the first name of my paternal grandmother who lived and died in Nigeria and whom I never met . |
| 15 | Yellow phosphine ( 7 ) was not only the first acridinium compound to be discovered , but was also the first basic orange dyestuff . |
| 16 | Arthur Wilson was also the first deaf Briton to own a car , ( in 1896 ) and competed in races not only in cars or on cycles , but also on motor bikes . |
| 17 | KNOWN to the public as a lyric poet , novelist , and anarchist propagandist , John Henry Mackay was also the first to try to organise his fellow boy-lovers in order to gain acceptance of the right of men and boys to love one another . |
| 18 | Not only was she was the first woman ever to gain the imperial throne by her own machinations , she was also the first to institute the practice of official cunnilingus . |
| 19 | It was also the first time he had driven with navigator John Anthony , a retired fire officer from South Nutfield . |
| 20 | ‘ He was also the first sportsman to become a celebrity . |
| 21 | Prominent in artist-ministry public relations was the etcher Muirhead Bone , who was also the first British War Artist , serving as such in both World Wars . |
| 22 | So if one picks fourth-wall busting as the decisive criterion , the first big sitcom was also the first postmodern sitcom . |
| 23 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |
| 24 | In 1859 missionaries published Nigeria 's first paper , which was also the first African paper in an African language . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She was also the first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro . |
| 27 | Prominent in artist-ministry public relations was the etcher Muirhead Bone , who was also the first British War Artist , serving as such in both World Wars . |
| 28 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 29 | He was also the first sprinter in Britain to use starting blocks . |
| 30 | The 11th Great Warbirds Air display was also the first at the new venue of Wroughton . |