Example sentences of "or was [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was there a wider , opportunistic yet deeply felt and unreflective vision of ‘ American leadership of the Free World ’ , a vision intoxicating in its sweep but one which could not possibly be presented as compatible with the UN terms ostensibly legitimating the entire operation . |
| 2 | Was it her imagination , or was there a faint hardening to his voice ? |
| 3 | ‘ Was I imagining things , or was there a definite hint of electricity in the air between you and the dashing doctor ? ’ |
| 4 | Or was there a previous contracting phase , in which the galaxies managed to avoid hitting each other ? |
| 5 | If you 're a survivor of the Red Revolution — or was it a failed coup ? — one feature you 'll want to read is Brian Glover 's nostalgic glance back at those dreadful keg beers . |
| 6 | Was it worth watching the race , or was it a foregone conclusion ? |
| 7 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
| 8 | Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ? |
| 9 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |
| 10 | Had Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or was it a magnificent hoax ? |
| 11 | A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ? |
| 12 | Mr Kronweiser was unsure about that ‘ we ’ : was it a plural , or was it an ironic reference to Viola Machin ? |
| 13 | Was your career decision a carefully thought out choice based on a thorough consideration of your strengths and values and of the opportunities available to you — or was it an intuitive leap into the dark ? |
| 14 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
| 15 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 16 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
| 17 | That they were putting on or was it the actual make up or ? |
| 18 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 19 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 20 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 21 | well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it |
| 22 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |
| 23 | They were high on the second icefield ; or was it the third ? |
| 24 | Now we 've got another opportunity system , erm but it 's too early they think that the the water is coming up in I think February is n't it another or was it the coastal but it 's with |
| 25 | Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ? |
| 26 | Or was it the same amount of land ? |
| 27 | new or was it the last year ? |
| 28 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 29 | Little wonder Suzie had fallen in love with this modern city which proudly displayed so much of its past — or was it the shadowy Svend who had really captured her sister 's heart ? |
| 30 | Poets of a certain generation are notoriously fond of writing tearful tributes to one another in memory of their rollicking days in Soho in the Forties , or was it the Fifties ? |