Example sentences of "was it the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler . |
| 2 | Is it d was it the like kind of situation where you 're gon na have to carry it on so that he |
| 3 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 4 | Was it the blameless wonderfulness of God that forced Satan to go and live in the pit , where he could leave his things lying around and put his feet on the table ? |
| 5 | To reiterate , the purity movement was neither a conservative barrier to women 's sexual freedom , nor was it the passive vehicle for an emergent feminist consciousness . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ? |
| 8 | Was it the National Union of Mineworkers , under its renowned leader ? |
| 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 last act of a popular drama begun at Aranjuez and thwarted by Napoleon 's desertion of Ferdinand and protection of Godoy , a revolution of disappointed vengeance , a revolution directed against Godoy 's creatures in the provincial administrations who now followed the French ? |
| 11 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |
| 12 | Or was it the same amount of land ? |
| 13 | Was it the same time of the year ? |