Example sentences of "[was/were] it [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it not uneconomic to employ older workers whose apparent competence simply masked inevitably growing incapacity ? |
| 2 | Was it right even to burden the family with his plan ? |
| 3 | Generally , though , the manufacture was primarily an urban one , any slight activity in the villages of the Vale of the White Horse escaping Leland 's notice ; not only was it most unlikely to have spread to the Downs , but the social structure of the countryside north of Newbury was typical of corn-growing chalklands . |
| 4 | Not until after the medieval period was it economically viable to recover amounts as small as this , and so the gold content of silver artefacts can be a useful indicator of their antiquity . |
| 5 | Was it too much to ask that he be allowed some privacy in his life ? |
| 6 | So was it too much to believe that it was Kemp that Stratton had seen — about five o'clock , had n't he said ? |
| 7 | Was it too much to think that that dying little creature with the last of her strength had carried her kitten to the only haven of comfort and warmth she had ever known in the hope that it would be cared for there ? |
| 8 | Was it very difficult to let me down completely ? ’ |
| 9 | But was this very common amongst people you were living with , were they , was it very common to stop pregnancies like this ? |
| 10 | Why was it so important to get Steiner back and in the time scale indicated ? |
| 11 | Why was it so difficult to get ministers to meet ( a judgement , incidentally , buttressed by a careful reading of the Franks Report ) ? |
| 12 | Only in the sub-discipline within archaeology called ethno-archaeology , where archaeologists worked in contemporary ethnographic situations in order to study the relationship between peoples and their material world , was it usually impossible to ignore the social basis of material culture ( e.g. Gould ed. 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 ; Hodder 1982a ; Kramer ed. 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Only — was it really reasonable to think that the rest of the world was in league against him ? |
| 14 | Was it really possible to go out ? |
| 15 | Was it really possible to command such a premium price that one could recover the extra investment ? |
| 16 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 17 | Was it really impossible to know the truth about him ? |
| 18 | ‘ Was it really necessary to mention the asbestos factory ? ’ |
| 19 | Was it really wise to risk adding burglary to the list ? |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it was widely suspected that Thomas 's race was an important consideration in his nomination , for not only was it politically expedient to maintain a black representative on the Supreme Court , but to have secured confirmation from the Democrat-controlled Senate for a white male conservative would have been almost impossible . |