Example sentences of "or was it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you 're a survivor of the Red Revolution — or was it a failed coup ? — one feature you 'll want to read is Brian Glover 's nostalgic glance back at those dreadful keg beers .
2 Was it worth watching the race , or was it a foregone conclusion ?
3 In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ?
4 Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ?
5 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 ?
6 Had Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or was it a magnificent hoax ?
7 Mr Kronweiser was unsure about that ‘ we ’ : was it a plural , or was it an ironic reference to Viola Machin ?
8 Was your career decision a carefully thought out choice based on a thorough consideration of your strengths and values and of the opportunities available to you — or was it an intuitive leap into the dark ?
9 The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ?
10 Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term .
11 You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’
12 Or was it the other way round ?
13 Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ?
14 Or was it the other way round ?
15 well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it
16 For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism .
17 Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ?
18 Or was it the same amount of land ?
19 new or was it the last year ?
20 Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ?
21 Little wonder Suzie had fallen in love with this modern city which proudly displayed so much of its past — or was it the shadowy Svend who had really captured her sister 's heart ?
22 Or was it the marsh-grass hissing , acre upon salt-caked acre ?
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