Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the precampaign week , other influences were also detectable : those who followed the campaign for excitement rated Labour chances highly ; those who read right-wing papers or were themselves right-wing , those who watched BBC-TV news , and those who discussed politics a lot did not rate Labour chances highly . |
| 2 | Whether individual soldiers misjudged their situation yesterday , or were themselves too directly threatened , can not yet be known . |
| 3 | Was it only his fancy , or were her eyes older ? |
| 4 | Or were we trying to make meagre the devotions of minds which were helped to pray by colour and symbol ? |
| 5 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 6 | Or were we tapping into some kind of general biochemical mechanism relevant to all types of learning ? |
| 7 | If so were the figures I posted for corners etc totally false , or were we like ‘ Cobras with arthritis ’ again ? |
| 8 | Or were they really unnerved by its stated intention to improve ‘ standards of taste and executive ability . ' ? |
| 9 | Or were they rather lighter , almost |
| 10 | Two enlarged bomb-shaped protuberances of pure dazzling chrome — or were they bombs after all ? |
| 11 | Was the wind making her eyes water or were they tears ? |
| 12 | Was she the author of the Casket Letters , those letters which totally implicated her in the murder , or were they forgeries ? |
| 13 | Or were they dead as so many others clearly were . |
| 14 | Or were they number 58 's children ? |
| 15 | Was he really ‘ guided ’ in his wanderings or were they no more than the meanderings of an old man ? |
| 16 | Or were they spider 's web-threads ? |
| 17 | Were they , as has been asserted , in large measure recruited from chapmen who had made their pile — new men in the full sense of the phrase ; or were they , as some more recent historians have emphasized , more often recruited from the sons of local landed families who had taken to trade ? |
| 18 | Were they in the interests of freedom to follow tradition and protect and facilitate a march , albeit odious in its characteristics , or were they to seek a ban under the Public Order Act 1936 ? |
| 19 | Were my beliefs my own or were they merely the product of my culture , my country , my education or a legacy from my parents ? |
| 20 | The film 's shooting was marked by outbursts and tantrums from Mr and Mrs Madonna ( or were they Mr and Mrs Penn ? ) , mostly involving confrontations with reporters and photographers . |
| 21 | Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ? |
| 22 | Or were they ? |
| 23 | Or were they mind-slaved prisoners captured during the suppression of some planetary revolt , and sentenced to serve the Imperium usefully by their deaths ? |
| 24 | Or were they zombie bodies , specially bred and conditioned , and thus essentially unhuman ? |
| 25 | Or were they a security squad determined to drive some supposed gawping cluster of citizenry below , unsure as yet in the darkness of their rank or affiliation ? |
| 26 | Or were they more intent on capture and rapid interrogation ? |
| 27 | The question which remains to be solved is : were these phrases added to existing documents in 1070–72 to support Lanfranc 's claim to primacy over the whole area of the British Isles , or were they added as a last resort in 1120 , when the claim which Lanfranc , Anselm and Archbishop Ralph had all supported was facing final and irrevocable defeat ? |
| 28 | The documents he mentions are those which now have in them the forged primatial passages , and the only question which arises is : were these passages already in them when Lanfranc wrote these words , or were they added later ? |
| 29 | Did people refuse to co-operate , or were they uncontactable , having moved or died ? |
| 30 | Or were they , like modern neurotics , mistaking a thought , or a wish , for a deed ? |