Example sentences of "was it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it all written ? ’ |
| 2 | Did you actually see either er car or card ? or was it all done over the telephone with somebody else looking at the card ? |
| 3 | Was it all coming true ? |
| 4 | ‘ Where was it all coming from ? ’ |
| 5 | Nor was it all work . |
| 6 | Was it all concentrated in one person ? |
| 7 | Was it all going to end like this ? |
| 8 | Then the time of reckoning came — was it all going to work ? |
| 9 | Not only was it rare to visit clients ' premises , but the ‘ audited ’ accounts produced usually contained an amount for stock which was simply plucked out of the air by the client . |
| 10 | Just as it was extremely difficult to get the liberal establishment to take on board issues to do with social class in the 1970s so too was it rare to hear feminism and the politics of gender discussed with any degree of seriousness or attention at any of their gatherings . |
| 11 | It was no longer necessary to block Russia 's advance with an independent Poland and a strong Turkey to control the Dardanelles ; nor was it necessary to oppose the national struggles of the Czechs and the Southern Slavs . |
| 12 | And was it necessary to repeat it like that ? |
| 13 | With the father in jail , and teaching and socialisation in hand , why was it necessary to use emergency procedures ? |
| 14 | But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ? |
| 15 | Why , in short , was it necessary to criminalise and terrorise our entire community ? |
| 16 | ‘ Was it necessary to tell them ? ’ she asked in a low voice . |
| 17 | What is the assembly of Eurip European unity policies and regions and why was it necessary to send two representatives to Portugal to attend at a cost of over one thousand five hundred . |
| 18 | Was it necessary to change the Institute name to , for example , the International Institute of Embalmers ? |
| 19 | One critic wrote of the show : ‘ Of course it 's great to see her but why was it necessary to have such a fawning and sycophantic performance ? ’ |
| 20 | Was it correct to assume that women were invisible in the public domain because their interests as ‘ partners ’ in the family were adequately and fairly represented there by men ? |
| 21 | Was it honest to lie to your family ? |
| 22 | Was it honest to play the damned tragedy queen , driving everyone insane with your self-pity ? ’ |
| 23 | Not only was it marvellous to visit such a fascinating country , but it was also a delight to meet so many keen and enthusiastic knitters who were a real pleasure to teach . |
| 24 | Was it better to turn to the law than settle by other means ? |
| 25 | But was it right to argue that British banking suffers from overcapacity ? |
| 26 | ‘ Was it right to criticise her for being , as you thought , unkind , and then be even more unkind yourself ? |
| 27 | Now that the sport was re-established in its place of origin , was it right to suppose a return to the pagan ways of unbridled pleasure and carnal gratification ? |
| 28 | He said : ‘ My stand was that even if Kimberly was their biological daughter , was it right to put her through this ? ’ |
| 29 | Most surprising of all , at a quarterly delegate meeting at the end of 1873 , " it was generally held that there could be no reasonable objection to their [ women 's ] employment to a certain extent ; the main point in dispute being , was it right to put a limit on their number and … to what extent and how to apply the rule " . |
| 30 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |