Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of persons who were involved in the crisis , or were wellinformed observers , later joined the militantly anti-trade union National Association for Freedom . |
| 2 | The hilltops were marked with earthworks or were traditional beacon sites — summits well placed for line-of-sight communication . |
| 3 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 4 | A survey in 1982 found that a third of the left-wing Labour councillors either worked for another local authority ( including teachers ) or were full-time councillors living off their allowances . |
| 5 | Did morphological change in a lineage — the human lineage , for example — take place slowly , like a steady stream , or were long periods of stasis punctuated by bursts of rapid change , like Old Faithful ? |
| 6 | ‘ Most of the runners were from local clubs or were local people unattached to any organisation . ’ |
| 7 | Several had black or blue flecking on brindled or streaked red and white coats , or were yellow-and-white brindles , but still the white finching persisted in nearly every case . |
| 8 | Over 85% of the male population are or were manual workers . |
| 9 | ( Or were some people very quiet ? ) 4 Did people listen to what other people were saying ? 5 Did everyone understand clearly what they had to do ? 6 How did the group agree on its answer ? 7 How did everyone feel about the answer that was agreed ? 8 Was it an equal group , or did someone act as a boss ? |
| 10 | Or were those men simply other lonely hunters of other men ? |
| 11 | Reprinted by Heinemann in 1956 , these little books are still ( or were last year ) available at 25. 6d. each . |
| 12 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 13 | Was the landing gear up or down , or was one leg out of phase with the other ? |
| 14 | ‘ About 45 per cent of land developed for residential use was developed , including land already used for housing purposes , or was vacant land in built-up areas . |
| 15 | ‘ Across the regions , the proportion of land developed for residential use that had been previously developed or was vacant land in built-up areas varied between 33 per cent in the south west to 52 per cent in the south east , and 58 per cent in the north west . ’ |
| 16 | Erm can I just clarify that the thirty million of erm savings , was that actual redundancy costs which took place in ninety two or was that redundancy costs plus the sav commensurate savings which will then benefit ninety three er or was it just the savings ? |
| 17 | Do d do you think your father was unusual in Hirael at that time or or was that kind of behaviour by men accepted ? |
| 18 | or was that Wallie the one with the big lad with the glasses ? |
| 19 | Most recollections of Sandie Shaw stem no further than muddy images of television appearances in 1965 ( or was that Cilla Black ? ) and her victory in that disturbing parody of an event , The Eurovision Song Contest . |
| 20 | And is it Marg the one who had the friend in America , or was that Jacky ? |
| 21 | ‘ Or was that part of the scheme to turn them off ? ’ |
| 22 | Or was that Gillian ? |
| 23 | Or was that Stanley Holloway ? |
| 24 | Or was some conditioning or perversion happening to make otherwise decent men into bad people ? |
| 25 | Or was fourteenth-century Turkey laughs enough , what did he know ? |
| 26 | Or was this part of the Mallory myth he had been constructing ? |
| 27 | Lord Knollys , chairman of BOAC , was not particularly pleased with these proposals , nor were other members of the Cabinet . |
| 28 | No special equipment was used for this nor were new rails substituted . |
| 29 | Nor were new ideas produced by the Labour government for the general elections of 1950 and 1951 . |
| 30 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |