Example sentences of "it was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 2 | While his loyalism gave him urban working-class support , it was the rural Protestants who were most receptive to his evangelical emphases and who made a seat like Bannside obviously attractive . |
| 3 | But it was the final stage in the history of circumcision which was to have the most far-reaching implications for the woman and her role in the society and religion of her people . |
| 4 | The final great act — for everyone thought it was the final act — took place on 16 November . |
| 5 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 6 | Although he had dallied with other performers , this time it was the final straw for Ethel — this one , she considered , was rotten at her job ! |
| 7 | It was the final proof that perhaps , after all , she had not been as inferior to her sister as she had imagined . |
| 8 | It was the final straw in what has been the worst Christmas of her life . |
| 9 | Morton said on television : ‘ When the tape recordings hit the national newspapers , it was the final straw for Diana . |
| 10 | It was the final word which caught his attention . |
| 11 | It was the final dramatic , but telling , gesture . |
| 12 | It was the final straw for me as well . |
| 13 | For Damien it was the final condemnation of Clare . |
| 14 | It was the final straw , being trapped like this in her own flat . |
| 15 | Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window . |
| 16 | It was the final straw . |
| 17 | To Nora it was the final blow . |
| 18 | It was the final piece in a jigsaw that started at an auction at a rundown farm in 1970 . |
| 19 | It was the final straw ; she could see he knew everything , everything , and that took away every last hidden ace she had ever hoped to possess . |
| 20 | It was the final stage in a dramatic story which started at Birth for Adisa . |
| 21 | It was the final stage in a dramatic story which started at Birth for Adisa . |
| 22 | It was the final heartbreaking disaster for Joanne Smith and fiance Maurice Jones as their new home was engulfed by stinking brown flood water . |
| 23 | And partly it was the final report that you . |
| 24 | I think it was the following morning after the doctor talked to him . |
| 25 | And it was the following weekend before a full scale search was undertaken . |
| 26 | It was the following day , a Tuesday ; Ben Hesketh had arrived again , this time with a big estate car , and Ruth had helped him load the crates into the back . |
| 27 | It was the following year that the ghost was seen at Althorp for the first time . |
| 28 | It was the following Christmas Eve when Archie banged on my front door , fit to waken the dead , and introduced himself . |
| 29 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 30 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |