Example sentences of "[was/were] it in the " in BNC.
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1 | Was it in the 1930s after he had left the Diaghilev company ? |
2 | Was it in the car like last time when he did n't manage it ? ’ |
3 | ‘ So who was it in the hotel ? |
4 | Who was it in the red suit ? |
5 | Now how how was the army itself organized , did you was it in the in the normal normal sense of the army |
6 | Was on the heights or was it in the hollows ? |
7 | Or — a thought struck him — was it in the water from which he drank at the reading lectern ? |
8 | Was it in the broadcasting stations or on the barricades ? ’ |
9 | It was not the Committee 's understanding , nor , I am sure , was it in the Under-Secretary of State 's heart , that those crucial regulations would be bodged together with the uprating statement so that there would be insufficient time to discuss them . |
10 | Was it in the 1960s ? |
11 | The profit was down thirty million or so and if we look at the geographic breakdown of profit , er the U S A was up er and yet if er Addison Wesley was about the same Penguin was up ten so where did this thirty million drop in profits at oil services arise , was it in the U K and Singapore as opposed to the U S or , or was there something different about Penguin U S compared with Penguin U K ? |
12 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
13 | you , you , you 're relying on , but you did n't really sort of go back and say , I mean I , I would use a phrase like erm you know , regards to planning your future I 'm sure you found that of benefit to you tonight and get re and actually dig a bit deeper in that and say what was it in the , in , in that actual form that , that |
14 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
15 | They were married in was it in the barn or or |
16 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
17 | was it in the Midlands ? |
18 | Was it in the evening ? |
19 | Was it in the post ? |
20 | When you when out , was it in the car , it was wet ? |
21 | 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 . |