Example sentences of "[was/were] it a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Nor was it a regular determinant of foreign relations ; the faction-fighting between Mary of Gueldres and bishop Kennedy was the exception rather than the rule . |
2 | Not only was it a vast amount of money for the fledgling state to raise , by many Israeli officials felt passionately that Israel should not begin its life be seeking to extend its reach ad influence through such obvious corruption . |
3 | But that still leaves for the jury in submission , A , whether they used reasonable force yes reasonable to act , but was it reasonable force to act , was it a reasonable method of acting , by which I mean time of er , time of the incident . |
4 | Was it a different kind of Oedipus complex ? |
5 | Was it a huge game of bluff ? was it ever intended that if the reports favoured nationalization we were to get it ? |
6 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |
7 | Particular questions to be considered include : i to what extent has the emergence of new military technology from the laboratories been steered by strategic interests and too what extent was it an autonomous product of the laboratories ; ii how has the relationship between the work done in the national laboratories to that done by defence contractors altered ; iii what are the pressures for greater commercial application of research ; what effect has this had ? |
8 | Alternatively , was it an iniquitous form of torture perfected in Munich ? |