Example sentences of "was it [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in no part of Europe was it wholly exceptional for an eleventh-century bishop to have children . |
| 2 | Was it even safe to be helping him now ? |
| 3 | Why was it so regional in character ? |
| 4 | Why was it so impossible for him to make their relationship more secure ? |
| 5 | Why was it so easy for master printers to recruit girls ? |
| 6 | Was it so necessary to his male pride to wring that admission from her ? |
| 7 | He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ? |
| 8 | ‘ And why was it so urgent to you to go ? |
| 9 | Not only was it more convenient for his financial deals in international negotiations to be done there , but he needed more dancers . |
| 10 | Was it more common for at least one or two adult relatives to be added to a household in addition to a nuclear family unit ? |
| 11 | But was it legally correct for the police to breathalyse a driver in his own home ? |
| 12 | Nor was it much higher among the clergy who found themselves not only heavily taxed without the discretionary right of refusal which they enjoyed in respect of royal taxes , but also threatened with excommunication and ecclesiastical penalties for non-compliance . |
| 13 | Richard obviously did not want it , and was it really fair to her friends to inflict her nephew on them , she added reasonably to herself ? |
| 14 | Was it always rockabilly with the band members , even in younger days ? |
| 15 | Nor was it always clear on what basis the Principal Education Officer and Chief Inspector on occasions referred back the proposals of the project team . |