Example sentences of "it was [adv] [art] question " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was both a question and a statement and we both smiled , for we both knew the answer . |
| 2 | So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers ' land . |
| 3 | It was neither a question nor a comment . |
| 4 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 5 | Although Modigliani had promised openly to marry Jeanne , it was just a question of arranging the papers … |
| 6 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 7 | Now it was just a question of waiting to make sure the surgery had worked . |
| 8 | But I knew it would work , I knew it was the perfect register for it ; it was just a question of the right tonality and the right feeling . |
| 9 | I did not realise it was just a question of dialect ; I thought it was a question of grammar or , if you do not like that word , of logic . |
| 10 | I 've seen most of the programmes and for Mastermind it was just a question of re-reading all the Dr Who books again . ’ |
| 11 | Mostly the waiter would go along with this , sensing that Oliver was one of those customers who did not , for all their enquiries , actually want any advice , and it was just a question of slowly reeling him in like a fish . |
| 12 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 13 | It was just a question of — how shall I say ? — implementing it . ’ |
| 14 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 15 | ‘ They had a range that was selling , but with no one actually involved in planning it ; it was just a question of whatever anyone thought was pretty going in with no production schedules , no set ranges for satisfactory colour matching . ’ |
| 16 | Steen was certainly around somewhere ; it was just a question of waiting ; and , in the meantime , fishing . |
| 17 | It was just a question of time . |
| 18 | There seemed no point , unless it was just a question of wanting to get the last word . |
| 19 | It was just a question of finding it . |
| 20 | After the tourist season finished , and various cars were either written off or collapsed or whatever , you know whoever had a car was put forward as the picket you know er the leader of that picket er shift , and then it was just a question of working round . |
| 21 | The department had always been able to prosecute unhygienic premises it was just a question of finding them . |
| 22 | If it was just a question of effort , the pit would be in no danger . ’ |
| 23 | But then he exploded into life again and it was simply a question of when Carr would go down . |
| 24 | In this respect , of course , the Palace was no different from any other house of the period : It was simply a question of scale . |
| 25 | It was simply a question , Fred declared , of having ‘ a nose for news ’ and added that only a competent reporter could make a good story out of unlikely ingredients . |
| 26 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 27 | After Pearl Harbor Rhee felt that it was simply a question of time before Korea regained her independence and he could assume power . |
| 28 | The case decides nothing new about exclusion of confessions under section 78 : it was simply a question of whether the judge , having correctly identified the relevant breaches of PACE and Code C , had reached an untenable decision with regard to the exercise of his discretion . |
| 29 | Then it was simply a question of following step 1 then 2 then 3 etc . |
| 30 | He said all the independent surveys agreed there would be some job losses it was simply a question of how many . |