Example sentences of "was it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it the sound of someone crying close at hand ? |
| 2 | Was it the nuns at school ? |
| 3 | Was it the 1974 Benson And Hedges Quarter-Final when , as a 15-year-old , he lost two teeth to the fearsome Andy Roberts before hitting the winning six ? |
| 4 | Was it the remarkable 1981 Headingley Test against Australia ? |
| 5 | In this case , was it the timing of the meal ( the point in question ) , its size or richness , the wine , or the act of staying up late that was the cause ? |
| 6 | Was it the death knell of the nuclear industry or merely curfew time ? |
| 7 | Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children , or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends ? |
| 8 | Or was it the presence of Vic that he felt , his uneasy aura trapped in the shed like these once-breathing specimens ? |
| 9 | There has , however , been some debate in modern times about the motivation which lay behind this huge increase in Rome 's power : was it the constant aggression of neighbouring states which prompted Rome to take protective measures , and thereby incidentally achieve this new position , or was Rome an imperialist power whose expansion was internally motivated ( for example , by land hunger or aristocratic avarice for glory ) ? |
| 10 | Was it the voice of the machines ? |
| 11 | Was it the money ? ’ |
| 12 | Poets of a certain generation are notoriously fond of writing tearful tributes to one another in memory of their rollicking days in Soho in the Forties , or was it the Fifties ? |
| 13 | ‘ It was n't technology that doomed nuclear power in the US , nor was it the dedicated obstructionist tactics of the anti-nuclear forces , effective though they were . |
| 14 | Nor , as theory suggested , was it the industrially more backward parts that resisted a Viennese leadership . |
| 15 | You have forgotten : where was it the terrorism stopped , the drug-running began ? |
| 16 | The date , for God 's sake , on the top letter from Ash , was it the same , why were they all together , how long does it go on , — how did she answer , what about Blanche and the Prowler … |
| 17 | Was it the Walkers ? |
| 18 | Was it the dew ? |
| 19 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 20 | Since when was it the right of council house tenants to have facilities along with their accommodation ? |
| 21 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
| 22 | I am told by some Kenyan cynics I fell in with that the commission was appointed largely to satisfy demands from one aid donor ( was it the World Bank ? ) . |
| 23 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |
| 24 | And even now , was it the full story ? |
| 25 | Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough , the soft ticking of the wall-mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall , the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door , the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs , the open hearth ? |
| 26 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 27 | And yet was it a fact , was it the truth , or was it merely a psychological speculation which in certain moods he found it interesting to contemplate ? |
| 28 | Was it the wind that rustled the leaves ? |
| 29 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 30 | Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu . |