Example sentences of "[was/were] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 2 | Nor was it through magic alone that the impulse arose to gain power over nature . |
| 3 | What was it about that infuriating man that made her act so out of character ? |
| 4 | And what was it about golden hair ? |
| 5 | What was it about this man ? |
| 6 | What was it about this man ? |
| 7 | Was it about this violent chemistry ? |
| 8 | Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily ? she thought hazily . |
| 9 | What was it about unashamed luxury , Harriet sometimes asked herself , which made her feel so uncomfortable ? |
| 10 | Was it on eastern worlds and ? |
| 11 | But , was it on this main road ? |
| 12 | What was it with this guy ? |
| 13 | What was it with these women ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And that was it for another year . |
| 16 | Was it for this that earth grew tall ? |
| 17 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 18 | I was pleased with W F Owtram 's opening two lines : ‘ Was it for this I quitted Rhondda , /In my dreams at large to wander … |
| 19 | It lacks the ‘ glad preamble ’ of the later texts , and by beginning at ‘ Was it for this … ’ ( 1805 Book i , line 271 ) appears to trace the growth of the mind from earliest consciousness . |
| 20 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 21 | Was it for this ? |
| 22 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 23 | Was it for this common servitor to censure his habits ? |
| 24 | ‘ Was it for this the clay grew tall , |
| 25 | And so the line could read , ‘ Was it for this the bodies of men grew tall ? ’ |
| 26 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 27 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | What business was it of this woman how she dressed ? |
| 30 | Are you more say on a more personal level , was it at all obvious during the lodge meetings that people who were out people were out , were under pressure to go back ? |