Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or were a major problem ? |
| 2 | Even in the more affluent homes , labour saving devices we take for granted today either did n't exist or were an expensive luxury . |
| 3 | Whilst he was chasing girls ( or were the girls chasing him ? ) and always looking for an easy pound or two , I was deeply concerned by the deteriorating political situation . |
| 4 | Happy coincidence , or were the magnets responsible ? |
| 5 | Or were the remaining hostages to be hanged ? |
| 6 | French poets , in the eleventh century , discovered or invented , or were the first to express , that romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth . |
| 7 | Or were the knives sent to a random group of people to confuse the hunt for either the killer or the hoaxer ? |
| 8 | Or were the acts which produced this end so far away from them in time that somehow the temporal distance anaesthetised reality ? |
| 9 | Was that a collective decision by the Tory party or the Cabinet to raise false expectations or were the Ministers acting in a freelance capacity ? |
| 10 | Was truancy a symptom of wider emotional problems , or were the schools failing to provide education appropriate to these young people 's needs and interests ? |
| 11 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 12 | Was he still handcuffed or were the handcuffs off ? |
| 13 | Can you tell me something about the crowd itself , erm did particular age groups tend to stand together around the ground or were the young |
| 14 | Did the postwar development of the welfare state remould capitalism to give it a more human face , or were the changes largely cosmetic ? |
| 15 | And you probably wondered what was on fire or were the spaceship had landed . |
| 16 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 17 | Where , oh where was the Lily of yesterday ? |
| 18 | It is important to emphasize that ‘ creative accounting ’ does not properly refer to ‘ illegal accounting ’ : there is or was no support for illegal accounting . |
| 19 | This demonstrates the interaction between the excusing elements in provocation ( not just the loss of self-control , but the degree of provocation experienced ) and the justificatory elements ( to an extent , D was right to react angrily to what had been said or done , unless the alleged provocation was self-induced or was a legally justified act ) . |
| 20 | The appearance of a famous face in the show rooms always caused a stir amongst the girls , who all longed to hook a wealthy husband — and if he had a title , like the Aly Khan , or was a film star like Omar Shariff , then so much the better ! |
| 21 | Carrefour smelled the burning flesh of his memory once more , but was no longer sure whether it was truly his memory or was a result of the hole in his chest . |
| 22 | Three thous the going rate , or was a few years back . |
| 23 | ‘ Tribe is , or was a bad joke , ’ Finlayson said morosely . |
| 24 | Whether or not this was all a move towards a system of ‘ state universities ’ on the American model , was a genuine attempt to provide an alternative and distinctive system , or was a retreat from and a weakening of the Robbins approach to a ‘ unitary ’ system of higher education was to remain a matter of debate at the policy level . |
| 25 | Or was a separated woman still an outcast in Veronica 's circle ? |
| 26 | Some philosophers argued that the Prime Mover did not exist , or was a weak and feeble deity who was impotent to intervene in the machinations of the universe : Spike could not believe that . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 28 | ( b ) at the time of such act or default the covenantor is or was a member of or a beneficial owner of a share in the recognised body ; |
| 29 | Note that anyone who is or was a local authority foster parent for the child within the preceding six months can not apply for leave to seek a s8 order unless he has the consent of the authority or he is a relative of the child or the child has lived with him for at least three years preceding the application ( s9(3) ) . |
| 30 | Well I have to admit , with our group , the first ten minutes or was a little bit disorganised because I felt we , I came in , we set down the objects , I felt we did that well , and we were clear of the timescale from the very beginning . |