Example sentences of "[was/were] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what was it about the wretched man that cut straight through her defences ? |
| 2 | Was the the degree of cooperation , was it was it on an informal basis or was it er through the Transport and General that you got together ? |
| 3 | Why was it on the wrong side of the road ? |
| 4 | And was it on the main road that the one who was killed |
| 5 | Was it after the First World War ? |
| 6 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
| 7 | I said , well was it like a part-time thing ? |
| 8 | Well it was it like a big square shaved right down to the skin but no unless , it could of healed and just not grown back yet |
| 9 | Oh what was it like an old Dallas ? |
| 10 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
| 11 | Was it in the 1960s ? |
| 12 | Was it in the 1930s after he had left the Diaghilev company ? |
| 13 | Who was it in the red suit ? |
| 14 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 15 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 16 | Nor was it in the romantic tradition that the cultivation of your own emotional development , the habits of seasoned and trade introspection , are really what the poet needs . |
| 17 | Neither was it within the second type of loss above , because the sellers were unaware of the buyers ' chance of obtaining those lucrative contracts . |