Example sentences of "was it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | So dim was it under the trees that she had to get close up before she could make certain that the second figure was a nine . |
| 32 | Was it during the riots that you |
| 33 | Down river , or was it up the river ? |
| 34 | Or was it after the diarrhoea but before the two lovely colds ? |
| 35 | Was it after the First World War ? |
| 36 | What was it like the during the first times y you went on the ? |
| 37 | Where was it among the glitz of that infamous Sheffield rally ? |
| 38 | Was it in the 1930s after he had left the Diaghilev company ? |
| 39 | Was it in the car like last time when he did n't manage it ? ’ |
| 40 | ‘ So who was it in the hotel ? |
| 41 | Who was it in the red suit ? |
| 42 | Now how how was the army itself organized , did you was it in the in the normal normal sense of the army |
| 43 | Was on the heights or was it in the hollows ? |
| 44 | Or — a thought struck him — was it in the water from which he drank at the reading lectern ? |
| 45 | Was it in the broadcasting stations or on the barricades ? ’ |
| 46 | It was not the Committee 's understanding , nor , I am sure , was it in the Under-Secretary of State 's heart , that those crucial regulations would be bodged together with the uprating statement so that there would be insufficient time to discuss them . |
| 47 | Was it in the 1960s ? |
| 48 | The profit was down thirty million or so and if we look at the geographic breakdown of profit , er the U S A was up er and yet if er Addison Wesley was about the same Penguin was up ten so where did this thirty million drop in profits at oil services arise , was it in the U K and Singapore as opposed to the U S or , or was there something different about Penguin U S compared with Penguin U K ? |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | you , you , you 're relying on , but you did n't really sort of go back and say , I mean I , I would use a phrase like erm you know , regards to planning your future I 'm sure you found that of benefit to you tonight and get re and actually dig a bit deeper in that and say what was it in the , in , in that actual form that , that |
| 51 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
| 52 | They were married in was it in the barn or or |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | was it in the Midlands ? |
| 55 | Was it in the evening ? |
| 56 | Was it in the post ? |
| 57 | When you when out , was it in the car , it was wet ? |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Was it from the glass , Lilith ? ’ |
| 60 | Or was it from the father , do you think ? |