Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Were ‘ Archaos ’ paid the full amount owed to them by the Dublin Theatre Festival or were they paid , as has been rumoured , just a fragment of that money ? |
| 32 | Or were they inextricably related ? |
| 33 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 34 | Were people peacefully frying up potatoes , or were they hitting one another on the head with their frying pans ? |
| 35 | Or were they grey ? |
| 36 | However , they give little information about the obstetric features of their cases , which might be quite important since matching is essential with such small numbers — for example , were the babies predominantly born during preterm labour or were they delivered electively for some obstetric complication ? |
| 37 | Were the parents of Dronfield to be treated as naughty boys and girls , or were they to be treated as intelligent working people ? |
| 38 | The fat men : were they less fat because they were smaller , and so you needed less stomach to appear fat ; or were they more fat , because they developed the same stomachs , but had even less frame to support them ? |
| 39 | An ominous sign … or were they just afraid to admit supporting a rebel ? |
| 40 | On the other hand the south Italian potters of Caies must have found customers for their cups which through their imagery reminded the drinkers of the impious Celts in action : were they too a " memento mori " or were they an invitation to rejoice in a world where barbarians are sure to be defeated ? |
| 41 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 42 | And do you think they all came from the same kind of background as yourself or were they more working people ? |
| 43 | When you were talking earlier on about the bombs and the detonator coming in , where were they stored , at the docks or were they |
| 44 | Was the seventh century the date of origin of such estates , or were they in some way related to earlier land arrangements ? |
| 45 | Or were they connected with Godstowe ? |
| 46 | What exactly had they been — or were they now — doing ? |
| 47 | Or , or were they different in your childhood ? |
| 48 | Was that the consultants ' own decision or were they prevented from consulting the NRA by the Cardiff Bay development corporation which originally proposed the Bill in close co-operation with the Welsh Office ? |
| 49 | Or were they really older and wiser ? |
| 50 | Or were they , perhaps , a nation of satirists ? perhaps they had come all those billions of miles for the purpose of taking the piss out of us . |
| 51 | And this was why the company pulled out of the , it says out of the north , are they still in existence or were they in |
| 52 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 53 | And they , they had had some experience or were they engineers or something |
| 54 | No rat droppings — or were they mouse droppings — under the sink . |
| 55 | Were they er l loose or were they in a packet ? |
| 56 | Was er , was this industrialization envisaged being a sort of purely urban thing , or were they trying to encourage er rural industry as well ? |
| 57 | Or were my ears playing me up ? ’ |
| 58 | Or were there other possibilities for serious malfunction leading to a major release of the reactor 's ‘ inventory ’ of radioactive material ? |
| 59 | There were plenty other guys , or were there ? |
| 60 | Was there a sudden appearance of a new species , or were there cases of gradual succession ? |