Example sentences of "[was/were] it [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Was it hot in Rome ? " |
| 2 | I remember it clearly — " Was it hot in Rome ? " |
| 3 | Colour , for example , was introduced in 1967 on BBC2 ( not until 1969 was it available on BBC1 ) . |
| 4 | Was it all worth while ? |
| 5 | Was it all about evacuees ? |
| 6 | Not only was it gaudy in appearance but the smell wafting from the kitchen was distinctly malodorous . |
| 7 | Now the tax has been scrapped , but was it due to citizenship or merely the need of a new leader to gain popularity ? |
| 8 | There was one , Robert Hardy , for instance , rumoured to be twelfth or was it twentieth in line to the throne ? |
| 9 | the historical biography of the relationship between carer and cared for : how far was it possible for people with a long history on one particular level to relate to each other on a level of physical intimacy , faced with the disgust that caring often demands . |
| 10 | " Was it fun on Lord Jim ? " |
| 11 | Nor in its construction was it oppressive like Sacsayhuaman . |
| 12 | Such a voice assignment for a man , a god no less , might raise some eyebrows today , but was it exceptional in France in 1663 ? |