Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether gossip , bickering and family feuds were or were not a more prevalent feature than a wholesome communion of the population could vary from village to village and is ultimately a matter of subjective judgement . |
| 2 | For example : In the event that any person or persons who was or were not a member or members of the Company on the date of the adoption of these Articles ( " the Acquiring Member " ) either alone or in concert ( as such expression is defined in the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers ) with any other person(s) , shall become beneficially entitled to more than [ 50 ] % of the issued Ordinary Share Capital of the Company after the date of adoption of these Articles he shall forthwith be required to serve notice on each of the holders of the Ordinary Share Capital of the Company that he is so beneficially entitled and shall thereupon be bound to offer to purchase the remaining shares in the Ordinary Share Capital of the Company at a price per share ( " the Acquisition Price " ) equal to the highest price per share paid by the Acquiring Member for such shares in the Company acquired by him . |
| 3 | Either Mr. Woodford had a twinkle in his eye or was just a good salesman , but the upshot was that he supplied my grandmother over many years , in his turn his son carried on and continued serving my mother , right up to 1949 when the Salisbury round had only two customers left . |
| 4 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 5 | ‘ There is certainly little to suggest ’ , he adds , ‘ that personal cleanliness was thought a necessity , or was even a rare virtue . ’ |
| 6 | Following this , a single probe letter was presented to one or other visual half-field and the subject 's task was to respond , using the left hand , as fast as possible to indicate whether the visually presented letter was or was not a member of the auditorily presented memory set . |
| 7 | The whole er test of whether this was or was not a successful proposal , was whether you marry the environment and the economy , and sadly it has n't been married , and sadly the Treasury has yet again won . |
| 8 | But , having said that , it is not or was not an issue at the forefront of British politics and in a sense you can say the whole nation was guilty in that way . |
| 9 | I do n't believe that this city of ours was preordained , or was entirely a function of the recent past . |
| 10 | Did the guild members look after their own coats or was there a central wardrobe at the church , or guild-hall in the case of the trade guilds ? |
| 11 | Was change incremental or was there a sudden , sharp turning point ? |
| 12 | Did you do it in the cabin or was there a bed made up in the back ? |
| 13 | Was it his imagination or was there a certain edge to the way he said that ? |
| 14 | Did Could everybody afford to have their own horse and gig or or was there a bus that came in or ? |
| 15 | On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast . |
| 16 | He had a few weeks to bask in the glow of this last electoral achievement , weeks that were only a little marred by the unpleasantness of Cabinet changes and the difficulties of moving towards a decision on the application of the oil sanction against Italy . |
| 17 | And that were only a one tier . |
| 18 | The rise of science coincided with the spread of new values which emphasized independence of individual thought in ways that were essentially a challenge to the power of the churches , their priests and ministers . |
| 19 | Tonight , two acres of land that were once an orchard but have now been transformed into a series of separate cottage gardens . |
| 20 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 21 | There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance , impaired gall bladder contraction , and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes . |
| 22 | Well let's look at a few examples I 'll take the Korean war of nineteen fifty to fifty three , the Cuban missiles crisis which , although was not an actual war , very nearly threatened a nuclear war , of nineteen sixty two and the Vietnam war of nineteen sixty three to nineteen seventy two . |
| 23 | He made a rough shape that was neither a cube nor a sphere , but a wet and hollow lump . |
| 24 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 25 | Even so , she had meekly done as they wished and taken on a responsibility that was clearly a bit of a burden . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd already stretched my credit to the maximum when the bank gave me a cheque guarantee card that was also a credit card . |
| 27 | She looked down with a fear that was also a pleasure at his stained , scarred hand . |
| 28 | And now here was a pleasure that was also an irritant . |
| 29 | The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie … |
| 30 | She resented having to run out to the telephone , in the middle of this useful busyness , wasting time over something that was just a routine . |