Example sentences of "was it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was it the only deduction : there were charges for seaming the stockings , for use of a corner of the master knitter 's workshop , for needles , candles , oil , coals and for the expenses involved in collecting in work . |
| 2 | Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler . |
| 3 | Was it the open-topped car ? |
| 4 | What was it the air-raid wardens shouted when they saw a house with a chink of light showing ? |
| 5 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
| 6 | Was it the dowdy grey dress that had earned the girl 's scorn ? |
| 7 | There were many more than two hundred behind that large banner , so was it the wisest move ? |
| 8 | Nor was it the traditional and risible gaps between the spiritual duties of the clergy and their worldly preoccupations . |
| 9 | Is it d was it the like kind of situation where you 're gon na have to carry it on so that he |
| 10 | Was it the Labour party , operating behind the scenes ? |
| 11 | That they were putting on or was it the actual make up or ? |
| 12 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 13 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 14 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Oh Was it the Black Dog ? |
| 17 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
| 18 | Was it the 1974 Benson And Hedges Quarter-Final when , as a 15-year-old , he lost two teeth to the fearsome Andy Roberts before hitting the winning six ? |
| 19 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 20 | From this sort of questioning , it is possible to draw conclusions about the impact of the ad — was it the first or second mentioned by most people , or did no one mention it at all ? |
| 21 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 22 | Even on what became its own home ground , however , the pluralist approach was not unchallenged , nor of course was it the first chronologically . |
| 23 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |
| 24 | Was it the ultimate in malice — to make sure that Toby , when he came to , in appalling pain , would have to contend with the idea that he would eventually die alone in the darkness ? |
| 25 | Was it the blameless wonderfulness of God that forced Satan to go and live in the pit , where he could leave his things lying around and put his feet on the table ? |
| 26 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 27 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 28 | To reiterate , the purity movement was neither a conservative barrier to women 's sexual freedom , nor was it the passive vehicle for an emergent feminist consciousness . |
| 29 | Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough , the soft ticking of the wall-mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall , the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door , the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs , the open hearth ? |
| 30 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |