Example sentences of "[was/were] it [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said I 'm , I 'm , I got them out at I think it were twenty one ninety nine or were it twenty five ninety nine ? they were twenty one ninety nine or twenty five ninety now , I ca n't remember off the cuff . |
| 2 | Were it any other company but MGN this might work . |
| 3 | Was it Ancient British , Gaul , Goth , Viking , Spanish , Russian , etc ? |
| 4 | Or was it seventy five ball ? |
| 5 | What , and was it seventy two ? |
| 6 | I think so for two reasons , because erm what was it that one planner said , that planning is the art of which geography is the science . |
| 7 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
| 8 | Was it that alienated man was deaf to the language of the hills and valleys , the forests and the shore ? |
| 9 | Why was it that bad things always happened when you were feeling happy ? |
| 10 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 11 | What was it that last reviewer had said ? |
| 12 | Was it that little pub ? |
| 13 | How was it that secondary education for all , the organising impulse behind the 1944 Act , should have been interpreted in so restricted a way ? |
| 14 | Well was it all private people then |
| 15 | Or was it , was it all dry-rot treatment ? |
| 16 | Where was it all leading ? |
| 17 | Was it all worth-while ? |
| 18 | Were women expected to do things still , or was it all earth-motherhood and fulfilment-through-family these days ? |
| 19 | Was it two one five volts then cos I 'm tuning , comes on okay but by the time you 've tape wrecker that was ! |
| 20 | What did Harold Edmundsen invent , and on which railway was it first used ? |
| 21 | And erm in when was it eighteen twenty seven at the Battle of Navareno the British navy sunk the Turkish fleet . |
| 22 | Fifty was it fifty two ? |
| 23 | about at their height about the hurricane time and was it fifty one I think . |
| 24 | I mean erm , was it nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 25 | What was it like I mean you know you er when you first moved here that was it nineteen twenty six ? |
| 26 | Well , yes , that , that 's true but I think the , er , by the nineteen twenties , when Freud was writing this book , was it nineteen twenty nine , twenty eight , twenty nine , |
| 27 | my husband and yes , just a minute , my husband arrived home from the war in nineteen forty eight I think it was or was it nineteen forty seven ? |
| 28 | That was your — was it fifth successive win ? |
| 29 | I mean this was written in nineteen , was it sixty four perhaps ? |
| 30 | 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 ? |