Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were my beliefs my own or were they merely the product of my culture , my country , my education or a legacy from my parents ? |
| 2 | Were n't there , were n't there another boys and girls one or whatever , or were there just the boys |
| 3 | So did this fella keep visitors right up through the year or was it just the Summer |
| 4 | Erm can I just clarify that the thirty million of erm savings , was that actual redundancy costs which took place in ninety two or was that redundancy costs plus the sav commensurate savings which will then benefit ninety three er or was it just the savings ? |
| 5 | Mm was this quite often during the year , or was it just the once ? |
| 6 | you used to sing the weddings and that type of thing , or was it just the normal Sunday service ? |
| 7 | Or was it only the storm ? |
| 8 | Did Elvis have good ideas about what he wanted to do , or was he basically the guy singing ? |
| 9 | Arthur de la Mare of the British Foreign Office remarked that one of the most noteworthy features of the broadcast by Hugh Borton and Edwin Martin was Borton 's admission that the failure of the Joint Commission was not entirely an American responsibility , ‘ nor was it entirely the Russians ’ . |
| 10 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
| 11 | And was it really the crime of passion that Wilde eloquently records ? |
| 12 | But that was a convenient guess and was it really the cause ? |
| 13 | Traditional landlordism might be economically undesirable , but was it not the cement which held together a social structure which might otherwise collapse into anarchy and revolution ? |
| 14 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |