Example sentences of "[was/were] it [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were it any other company but MGN this might work . |
| 2 | I think so for two reasons , because erm what was it that one planner said , that planning is the art of which geography is the science . |
| 3 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
| 4 | Was it that alienated man was deaf to the language of the hills and valleys , the forests and the shore ? |
| 5 | Why was it that bad things always happened when you were feeling happy ? |
| 6 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 7 | What was it that last reviewer had said ? |
| 8 | Was it that little pub ? |
| 9 | How was it that secondary education for all , the organising impulse behind the 1944 Act , should have been interpreted in so restricted a way ? |
| 10 | Well was it all private people then |
| 11 | Or was it , was it all dry-rot treatment ? |
| 12 | Was it another young girl , dear ? " |
| 13 | Was it some other traveller , camping nearby perhaps , and brewing his breakfast mug ? |
| 14 | Item — Did Alexander III die on Kinghorn Ness or was it some cunning stratagem of the King ? |
| 15 | Was the scent essentially McAllister , or was it some subtle perfume she chose to wear ? |
| 16 | Was it some awful thing ? |
| 17 | Were they talking about me — or was it some great secret that I was n't allowed to hear ? |
| 18 | Was it some anonymous well-wisher or was I being manipulated ? |
| 19 | Was it some miraculous power innate in the German race , such as our chauvinist historians romance about ? |
| 20 | Was it some supernatural sentinel of the Scarabae ? |
| 21 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |
| 22 | ‘ Was it any particular date ? ’ |