Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you actually see either er car or card ? or was it all done over the telephone with somebody else looking at the card ? |
| 2 | Or was it just fear that paralysed her , like a frightened rabbit ? |
| 3 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 4 | We can not , therefore , feel surprised that Professor Coleman , beset by so many obstacles in that particular branch of our art , and having arrived at an advanced period of life , could not fling himself into its pursuit ; nor was it reasonable to expect it from him ’ . |
| 5 | Nor was it all work . |
| 6 | It was no longer necessary to block Russia 's advance with an independent Poland and a strong Turkey to control the Dardanelles ; nor was it necessary to oppose the national struggles of the Czechs and the Southern Slavs . |
| 7 | The Conservative party was not yet the party of Edward Boyle — nor was it long to remain so . |
| 8 | Nor was it able to buy sufficient foreign exchange from other sources . |
| 9 | Nor was it likely to have done . |
| 10 | He nodded absently , his mind obviously elsewhere — nor was it difficult to guess in whose direction it had turned . |
| 11 | And was it necessary to repeat it like that ? |
| 12 | And was it defensible to live with a man because I was physically in love with him and also interested in him as an individual , if I was so suspicious of him ? |
| 13 | But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ? |
| 14 | But was it right to argue that British banking suffers from overcapacity ? |