Example sentences of "[was/were] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it worth watching the race , or was it a foregone conclusion ? |
| 2 | When you talked to Tom from Internal Audit , was it a successful talk ? |
| 3 | When you replied to that memo from Joan , the pensions manager , was it a successful response ? |
| 4 | ‘ Was it a long way ? ’ |
| 5 | Was it a long romance ? |
| 6 | Was it a small house you worked for ? |
| 7 | Nor was it a regular determinant of foreign relations ; the faction-fighting between Mary of Gueldres and bishop Kennedy was the exception rather than the rule . |
| 8 | W was it a decent , well I mean was it a living wage |
| 9 | Was it a fortified building ? |
| 10 | Was it a certain gunnery officer 's intention to clear his field of view in Draconian style ? |
| 11 | Not only was it a vast amount of money for the fledgling state to raise , by many Israeli officials felt passionately that Israel should not begin its life be seeking to extend its reach ad influence through such obvious corruption . |
| 12 | Was it a gradual thing , was it ? |
| 13 | Can , can I go back to er a question which , you asked was it a good thing |
| 14 | And I suppose , I mean if I was to answer the question was it a good thing I would have to say no . |
| 15 | In later recensions Hymes adds other features , for example key ( which involves evaluation — was it a good sermon , a pathetic explanation , etc. ) , and purpose ( what did the participants intend should come about as a result of the communicative event ) . |
| 16 | was it a good influence , I mean do you think the magazines and the books did |
| 17 | ‘ Was it a good meeting ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Was it a good party ? |
| 19 | Was it a good ground to play on ? |
| 20 | Was it a good decision to airfreight an order because we 'd messed things up on the plant ? ’ |
| 21 | Was it a good buffet , yeah ? |
| 22 | Was it a good conversation , though ? |
| 23 | Was it a good day out ? |
| 24 | was it a good job Clare ? |
| 25 | ‘ Was it a real surprise ? |
| 26 | And was it a real drama at that time for him ? |
| 27 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 28 | ‘ Was it a complete surprise to you when Matthew and Inez agreed to marry ? ’ |
| 29 | Was it a two-way respect — had the two got their heads together and decided it might be beneficial to Travis to send him out of the country for a short while ? |
| 30 | I was also gon na ask you about , was it a morbid subject but about funerals . |