Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Did she detect compassion or was it slight wistfulness in those incredibly direct blue eyes ?
2 Or was it scrambled egg ?
3 Or was it atomic law
4 For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ .
5 If the crank shaft goes on a car after twenty thousand miles , is it a defect — mechanical defect — covered by the guarantee , or was it faulty workmanship by the person who put it into the car ?
6 Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September .
7 But that still leaves for the jury in submission , A , whether they used reasonable force yes reasonable to act , but was it reasonable force to act , was it a reasonable method of acting , by which I mean time of er , time of the incident .
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