Example sentences of "[was/were] it [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a stand might look principled , were it not a sham . |
| 2 | Tony Soper was Nature 's early-riser and this programme suggested it is something of a habit with him , for we also saw him in the Falklands carrying out an investigation into whether the war — or was it just a conflict ? — had upset the wildlife there . |
| 3 | Was it just a rebound thing ? |
| 4 | He looked fantastic and had actually acquired quite a suntan — or was it just a glow of happiness ? |
| 5 | Was it just a coincidence that the names were so similar ? |
| 6 | Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’ |
| 7 | Was it just a coincidence ? |
| 8 | I ca n't remember , or was it just a bit of ground ? |
| 9 | For whatever reason , you decided to resume your relationship with Jones — or was it just a weekend fling for old times ’ sake ? |
| 10 | Was anyone certain there was food there , or was it just a guess ? |
| 11 | Or was it just a figure of speech ? ’ |
| 12 | Had there been magic — or was it just an illusion ? |
| 13 | But was it not a position that he had found ideal in his 10 years as a recall man ? |
| 14 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 15 | As she considered this , Hilda intercepted her gaze , saluted her , and majestically , graciously , demonstratively , voluptuously blew a kiss across the room : Liz waved back , less flamboyantly but with equal composure , for what did it matter , after all , that Hilda Stark was there , was it not a tribute to them both , to the efficacy of the cure ? |
| 16 | But was it Woolworths or Marks who had that little slogan , was it , nothing , not a was it not a penny , nothing more than a penny or not a thruppence |
| 17 | Or was it simply a hope at last of the services of those enchanting houris in Paradise ? |
| 18 | Was it simply a need to grow out of our teens and twenties , when we scarfed up indiscriminate and loathsome messes at all hours of the day and night ? |
| 19 | Was it primarily a relationship of conflict or harmony ? |
| 20 | Was it then a play , my lord — a charade ? ’ |
| 21 | As for the historical place — technically , says Balboa 's biographer , the peak was not in Darién , nor was it actually a peak . |
| 22 | But was it still an opera ? |
| 23 | Was it only a desire for conquest ? |
| 24 | Was it indeed a form of heresy , which Rome , for reasons of her own , dared not openly stigmatise as such ? |
| 25 | Did this energy have some objective reality or was it merely a way of looking at known processes from a different viewpoint ? |
| 26 | Nor was it merely a triumph for selfish or cynical British statesmen , indifferent to the fate of far-off peoples or calculating that Hitler might be launched into war against Soviet Russia . |
| 27 | Was it merely a coincidence that the fall of Boso took place at the same time as the discovery of the Rauching plot , in which Egidius was involved ? |
| 28 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 29 | Was it perhaps a memory of childhood , she wondered , that made watching a woman cooking in her own kitchen so extraordinarily reassuring and satisfying . |
| 30 | Then one day , out of the blue there was a miracle — or was it perhaps a fairy tale ? |