Example sentences of "[was/were] it [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily ? she thought hazily . |
| 2 | Was it on eastern worlds and ? |
| 3 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 4 | Was it at this moment that some reciprocal need established an understanding that they two were friends , would know each other for a long part of a life-time ? |
| 5 | It has been said that the Imperial Court was more successful in mounting great set pieces than in its day-to-day running , and indeed so successful was it in this field that an impression was created that the whole of the period was one long spectacle — the so-called fête impériale — whose only aim was entertainment , prodigality and licence . |