Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was the seventh century the date of origin of such estates , or were they in some way related to earlier land arrangements ? |
| 2 | Or was it in sheer surprise ? |
| 3 | Or was it in some way connected with her pallor and unsteadiness remarked upon by Dr Pringle ? |
| 4 | Nor was it through magic alone that the impulse arose to gain power over nature . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nor was it in 1967 , when decisions to disenfranchise as well as to enfranchise were a possibility . |
| 8 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 9 | Nor was he at all happy with the idea of me swanning off to France with the Parsons . |
| 10 | He was not , she noticed , a good driver , nor was he at all car-proud . |
| 11 | Nor was he at all anxious that ‘ corrupting ’ programmes be beamed at the impressionable population of Danu . |
| 12 | Nor was she at all put off or frightened by his intensity , when he flew into a temper if a drawing went badly . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | And was it off this one central chamber that you took the tank chambers round ? |
| 15 | but were you before that ? |
| 16 | But was he under any duty to do more than he did merely because he knew that the money was intended ultimately to be lent by the father to the son ? |
| 17 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |