Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Rhos-y-Bol or were you the first there ? |
| 2 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
| 3 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 4 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
| 5 | That they were putting on or was it the actual make up or ? |
| 6 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 7 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 8 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 9 | well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it |
| 10 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |
| 11 | They were high on the second icefield ; or was it the third ? |
| 12 | Now we 've got another opportunity system , erm but it 's too early they think that the the water is coming up in I think February is n't it another or was it the coastal but it 's with |
| 13 | Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ? |
| 14 | Or was it the same amount of land ? |
| 15 | new or was it the last year ? |
| 16 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 17 | Little wonder Suzie had fallen in love with this modern city which proudly displayed so much of its past — or was it the shadowy Svend who had really captured her sister 's heart ? |
| 18 | Poets of a certain generation are notoriously fond of writing tearful tributes to one another in memory of their rollicking days in Soho in the Forties , or was it the Fifties ? |
| 19 | Or was it the marsh-grass hissing , acre upon salt-caked acre ? |
| 20 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 21 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 22 | Nor were they the same top three from one decade to the next : groups such as Kemsley disappeared , and the market share of a survivor such as Associated Newspapers fluctuated quite widely . |
| 23 | Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past . |
| 24 | Nor was there the slightest need to tell her of the thoughts that were uppermost in his mind . |
| 25 | To reiterate , the purity movement was neither a conservative barrier to women 's sexual freedom , nor was it the passive vehicle for an emergent feminist consciousness . |
| 26 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 27 | Nor was it the traditional and risible gaps between the spiritual duties of the clergy and their worldly preoccupations . |
| 28 | Nor was it the only deduction : there were charges for seaming the stockings , for use of a corner of the master knitter 's workshop , for needles , candles , oil , coals and for the expenses involved in collecting in work . |
| 29 | Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler . |
| 30 | Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu . |