Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 2 | I see erm it also misheard me here because I 'm involved in designing a television series as well on the construction industry also gives me some interesting data about the industry was it ten per cent of the nation 's workforce works for the construction industry which in an average year will turn over thirty five billion pounds |
| 3 | Only through the use of such a modification was it possible to have access to the complete lexicon provided with the second version of the ANLT . |
| 4 | At the time when you started your first gallery was it unusual for a woman to be in charge ? |
| 5 | Was it possible rhetorical question was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the constitution ? |
| 6 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 7 | god was it painful , and erm , so the crown has got a filling in it now because she , to , to relieve the pressure on the abscess she had to drill right down through the crown , erm to go right through into the root area |
| 8 | Whose turn was it this time ? |
| 9 | Only by touch was it possible to establish that the body inside was entire , though it was not practical either to drain the liquid or to lift the remains . |
| 10 | What did Harold Edmundsen invent , and on which railway was it first used ? |
| 11 | In which way was it good ? ’ |
| 12 | In 1885 Prussian Oberpräsident Möllendorf , who was widely regarded as pro-Polish , recommended a total ban on the Polish language , saying that only in this way was it possible to force the Poles to appreciate the benevolence and wisdom of German culture and administration . |
| 13 | no way was it green |
| 14 | But them ones Bob erm Pam bought me last year was it last year or the year before ? |
| 15 | Nor in its construction was it oppressive like Sacsayhuaman . |
| 16 | Langhorne was it just then , and the race was won by one A. J. Foyt , not by Mario , who came in ninth in his Windmill Truckers Special : for $637 , to be split with the owners , and with hands like hamburgers . |
| 17 | you have some speakers if you , if you do a run like that you 'll hit a pitch were it resonate with the speaker |
| 18 | Why on earth was it such an enormous effort to force a bland expression , and shrug and nod ? |
| 19 | Table 4.4 clearly shows that in spite of all the additional resources of PNP , and in spite of the fact that , on average , their teachers were involved in more than three teacher-pupil interactions every minute , individual children took part in only eleven teacher-pupil interactions per hour , of which fewer than half were task-related : indeed in some classes the mean hourly rate of individual pupils ' task-related interactions with their teachers was as tow as two , and in no class was it higher than eleven . |