Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while she was content to float and slowly tumble in space admiring the view of the Earth below her — or was it above her ? |
| 2 | Down river , or was it up the river ? |
| 3 | Or was it for D White ? |
| 4 | As Layton asked in his poem ‘ To The Roaring Wind ’ ( or was it to the Spirit-behind-the wind ? ) : |
| 5 | Denis had sat downstairs in the sitting-room while it was going on , praying fervently to the Child of Prague , or was it to Uncle Mick , to protect his little European wife from all her pain and bring her safely through . |
| 6 | Or was it to be an example of ‘ self-strengthening ’ , of , essentially , successful reform ? |
| 7 | Or was it to be understood as the horrified realization that , in the words of Hercule Poirot , ‘ It might have been ME . ’ |
| 8 | Or was it with suspicion ? |
| 9 | Was it just free standing in the middle of the room or was it against the wall ? |
| 10 | Or was it after the diarrhoea but before the two lovely colds ? |
| 11 | Or was it after Cocktail ? |
| 12 | Or was it from the father , do you think ? |
| 13 | Or was it from a picture in a book ? |
| 14 | Or was it in her ear ? |
| 15 | Or was it in some way connected with her pallor and unsteadiness remarked upon by Dr Pringle ? |
| 16 | Or was it in sheer surprise ? |
| 17 | Was this a Chinese adaptation of er the doctrine of Karl Marx , a signification of it , if you like , a Chinese version with the essential ideas , principles , programme and so on of Marxism retained or was it in effect an abandonment of Marxism ? |
| 18 | Was on the heights or was it in the hollows ? |
| 19 | I pick up his name from someone , or was it in my mind anyway ? |
| 20 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
| 21 | Nor was it through magic alone that the impulse arose to gain power over nature . |
| 22 | Leading by example is not enough — nor was it at the time of Risinghill . |
| 23 | Nor was it of much use to youth workers , as what it boiled down to was a couple of blocking techniques , a punch and a bite : a self-appointed , self-defence expert showing off . |
| 24 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 25 | Nor was it in 1967 , when decisions to disenfranchise as well as to enfranchise were a possibility . |
| 26 | 1184 where there was no question of ‘ agency ’ of any kind ; nor was it in Barclays Bank Plc. |
| 27 | Nor was it in order to spare Spaniards more suffering . |
| 28 | Nor was it in the romantic tradition that the cultivation of your own emotional development , the habits of seasoned and trade introspection , are really what the poet needs . |
| 29 | What is certain is that , did it exist and were it to be opened by some ‘ cleansing regime ’ , the happy openness of British life would go for good . |
| 30 | Fortunately the process is explicitly parallel and were it to be run on multiprocessor hardware then there could be substantial speed-up . |