Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [pron] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , or were they different in your childhood ? |
| 2 | Or were you straight with your sawing ? |
| 3 | " Or were you jealous of her ? " asked Sara shrewdly . |
| 4 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 5 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 6 | Which was it , or was it all of them combined ? |
| 7 | There was one , Robert Hardy , for instance , rumoured to be twelfth or was it twentieth in line to the throne ? |
| 8 | Or was it possible for one individual to be in the position of a net ‘ receiver ’ for some considerable time because of an expectation that they would be able to reciprocate at some stage in the future ? |
| 9 | Or was it half past one , where did I put it ? |
| 10 | Or was it peculiar to his peculiar biological identity , a freak generated by his inept sensory apparatus ? |
| 11 | Or was he stricken with glandular fever ? |
| 12 | Was it the food or was she supposed to be a tennis player ? ’ |
| 13 | We had seen nothing of Coventry nor were we due to . |
| 14 | Like characters in a Thomas Hardy novel , the Cabinet left Number Ten to wild lightning and torrential rain — nor were they unaware of the almost vulgar symbolism . |
| 15 | Nor were they interested in trade-offs whereby the British should be the senior partner in the Middle East in return for American leadership in the Far East . |
| 16 | It was inconceivable that the member states would have agreed , after years of negotiations , to a Common Fisheries Policy based on rules of registration that were themselves incompatible with Community law . |
| 17 | Cancer mortality was not higher in patients receiving atenolol than in controls ( table II ) , nor was it higher in the atenolol group than in the other β blocker group , adjusted for age , sex , smoking status , and time period ( relative hazard ratio 0.71 ; 95% confidence interval 0.45 to 1.11 ) and with the non β blocker group ( 0.88 ; 0.61 to 1.28 ) . |
| 18 | Nor was it easy to be thrust together with some grandmothers . |
| 19 | Nor was it easy for her at first to make new ones at The Milebrook , having only a pony and cart and her nearest neighbours being two , four and five miles away . |
| 20 | However , due to changes made at the insistence of President Turgut Özal , the law did not apply to those accused of terrorism or crimes against the state , nor was it effective in those provinces under a state of emergency . |
| 21 | The birch existed , particularly in the older public and grammar schools , nor was it absent from some of the newer schools , if the denunciations of some publicists are to be believed . |
| 22 | Nor was it likely to be the proprietress of the Rose Bowl celebrating their deal . |
| 23 | Nor was it clear from the 1538 injunctions whether the offending images should simply be removed or totally destroyed . |
| 24 | Nor was it wise for the British to make precipitate and unilateral cuts to their conventional forces . |
| 25 | Nor was it happy with the imprecision of the old days . |
| 26 | Nor was I ready for the inconsistent treatment of the subject . |
| 27 | Yet Nixon continued to maintain his innocence : on 22 May , he stated that " I took no part in , nor was I aware of any subsequent effort that may have been made to cover up Watergate . " |
| 28 | Nor was he unaware of the rays of force emanating from the presence behind his back of the fateful being now committed to his charge . |
| 29 | Nor was he narrow in his tastes . |
| 30 | In no way did he shine , nor was he involved in anything memorable . |