Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you probably wondered what was on fire or were the spaceship had landed . |
| 2 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 3 | Where , oh where was the Lily of yesterday ? |
| 4 | It is important to emphasize that ‘ creative accounting ’ does not properly refer to ‘ illegal accounting ’ : there is or was no support for illegal accounting . |
| 5 | ( b ) at the time of such act or default the covenantor is or was a member of or a beneficial owner of a share in the recognised body ; |
| 6 | Whether or not this was all a move towards a system of ‘ state universities ’ on the American model , was a genuine attempt to provide an alternative and distinctive system , or was a retreat from and a weakening of the Robbins approach to a ‘ unitary ’ system of higher education was to remain a matter of debate at the policy level . |
| 7 | The appearance of a famous face in the show rooms always caused a stir amongst the girls , who all longed to hook a wealthy husband — and if he had a title , like the Aly Khan , or was a film star like Omar Shariff , then so much the better ! |
| 8 | ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 9 | Carrefour smelled the burning flesh of his memory once more , but was no longer sure whether it was truly his memory or was a result of the hole in his chest . |
| 10 | Was it really busy , or was the bar service just crap . |
| 11 | Was the child allowed to express a wide and deep range of emotion , or was the expression of particular feelings taboo ? |
| 12 | Erm from you from your experience in the , the negotiating of that , that kind of er deal and just from what you saw of it working in factories , er do you think that management quite explicitly sought to , to create some division or was the division that arose wh you 're talking about the fitters being on a different scheme from the other members of the workforce ? |
| 13 | Or was the architect due to come in ? |
| 14 | Was it her imagination or was the man opposite her regarding her warily ? |
| 15 | When the figure of 175 was given , was that simply the clause 2 figure for England , or was the clause 5 figure for the Welsh inspectorate also included ? |
| 16 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 17 | Very much the Front Page look today , I thought , or was the hangover worse than usual ? |
| 18 | Earlier in his decision , however , he had posed the question , ‘ was the child 's life going to be so demonstrably awful that it should be condemned to die ; or was the kind of life so imponderable that it would be wrong to condemn her to die ? ’ |
| 19 | So the question becomes one not so much of scoring as of affect : did Monseiur Blondel sing Hymen straight , or was the part conceived rather in a humorous vein ? |
| 20 | Or was the way they engaged with these theoretical explanations of racism governed by the same conditions as applied to their reading of the ‘ primary ’ material ? |
| 21 | Or was the assassin already here ? |
| 22 | Or was the assassin sent by the King , his son , Gaveston , or even the French ? |
| 23 | Or was the metal never applied in the first place ? |
| 24 | Or was the change a more superficial one in which a crude , but no longer viable , form of isolation was replaced by a more subtle variant , in which the techniques of the West were adopted to preserve and strengthen an essentially unchanged sense of cultural uniqueness and social order , and ensure survival in an unpredictable and hostile world ? |
| 25 | Was it because in some way he blamed Francis for his mother 's death — or was the reason less dramatic ? |
| 26 | These types of problem extend even to the more commonplace types of metalwork in which the lack of replication might lead to the suggestion that everyday items were produced locally as required ; but were such technical skills possessed by someone on every farm or hamlet , at only a few locations , or was the craftsman a mobile specialist ? |
| 27 | Did Albert Johanson play ont' left wing or was the oldbugger injured as usual ? |
| 28 | Or was the lancelet-shape the more ancient pattern from which animals like sea squirts developed by sticking their heads to rocks , losing their muscles and retreating into as undemanding a life-style as the seas can provide ? |
| 29 | Or was the Leader of the Opposition wrong and does the hon. Gentleman agree with that ? |
| 30 | Or was the drawing unrelated to his feelings for Eugenie ? |