Example sentences of "[was/were] it the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What were you took to him Joyce were it the video or television ? |
| 2 | Was it the Monklands ? |
| 3 | Was it the Monklands you were in , when you dislocated |
| 4 | And as she lay in bed listening , was it the wartime sky which stretched above her head ? |
| 5 | Did Lower Axe dream in the soft evening sunshine of nineteen ninety two , or was it the wartime village that was out there now , canopied by the dangerous skies of nineteen forty ? |
| 6 | Was it the monks of Glastonbury ? ’ |
| 7 | And what was it the present ? |
| 8 | I did n't understand her questions was it the figures had come from the private sector I 'm not sure if she understood it herself either erm we 've talked in the social services planning cuts committee about a list of homes for refurbishment and Mr wanted a very long list er a list which would blight every home not on the list . |
| 9 | ‘ Was it the King 's body ? ’ |
| 10 | And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’ |
| 11 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 12 | In this case , was it the timing of the meal ( the point in question ) , its size or richness , the wine , or the act of staying up late that was the cause ? |
| 13 | Was it the ramblers ? |
| 14 | Was it the shock of telling her family she was expecting ? |
| 15 | Was it the lobby where we were to meet , and were the two of them waiting there now ? |
| 16 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 17 | Yesterday , or was it the day before yesterday , or when was it , he had gone first up the ladder on to Lord Jim , but Nenna had gone first into the cabin . |
| 18 | Was it the case that an all-embracing unity replaced separate and finite things ? |
| 19 | Nor was it the case that Franco made deliberately excessive demands , in the knowledge that the Axis would be unwilling to meet them . |
| 20 | Not only was it the case that many projects were already under way before ERDF resources were committed , but also member states were free to add ERDF aid to the national aid for the project ( individual additionality ) or to add such aid to national regional expenditure as a whole ( global additionality ) . |
| 21 | Was it the case that he had not told Lubor he was having a business dinner with her that evening purely and simply because he did not consider that he had a dinner engagement with her ? |
| 22 | But w was it , was it the size of China that made this necessary ? |
| 23 | Was it the phone call ? ’ she added after a moment , more sympathetically . |
| 24 | and was it the suit that was the thing you always used to pawn ? |
| 25 | Was it the equivalent of Lady Macbeth 's ‘ What , in our house ? ’ |
| 26 | Was it the council found it dangerous ? |
| 27 | I , there was a question on the paragraph four in the amongst inflation or was it the appendix . |
| 28 | Was it the Virgin rescuing her own or the Devil showing he was beaten ? |
| 29 | One I think was the industry and the other was was it the Brendan that he says in |
| 30 | Was it the call of a soul in torment ? |