Example sentences of "[was/were] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it good washing with that Bold al Bold all in one ? |
| 2 | Was it sheer bravado on Obispal 's part that he disdained to fire explosive bolts at that creature which itself could not manipulate a gun ? |
| 3 | Was it sheer arrogance to insist , ‘ There is n't such a thing as Majorism ’ ? |
| 4 | Or was it scrambled egg ? |
| 5 | Was it pure will power ? |
| 6 | If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ? |
| 7 | Was it Inky coming to her ? |
| 8 | Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September . |
| 9 | Was it mere luck or superior judgement that enabled Laura and Bernard to recruit some local staff of exceptional talent , dedication and above all the will to succeed ? |
| 10 | Was it mere petulance on the part of a former leader who remains unreconciled to her overthrow ? |
| 11 | What what sort of things went on , erm was it close fighting or did you never see |
| 12 | Was it Stainless Stephen , the popular comedian of the Thirties , who used to keep us informed about a certain impecunious Lord who had a horse named Final Demand by Every Post out of Somerset House ? |
| 13 | Did she detect compassion or was it slight wistfulness in those incredibly direct blue eyes ? |
| 14 | Or was it atomic law — |
| 15 | What was it Roman thought important enough for a visit ? |
| 16 | Was it wishful thinking ? |
| 17 | Since when was it middle class or bourgeois to take a pride in your work , to want to see customers whose patronage provides your salary , satisfied ? |
| 18 | But that still leaves for the jury in submission , A , whether they used reasonable force yes reasonable to act , but was it reasonable force to act , was it a reasonable method of acting , by which I mean time of er , time of the incident . |
| 19 | Was it possible Carver was already screwing Evelyn in the bathroom ? |
| 20 | Was it possible Paula was still alive — and did she even want her to be ? |
| 21 | was it funny mum ? |
| 22 | If the crank shaft goes on a car after twenty thousand miles , is it a defect — mechanical defect — covered by the guarantee , or was it faulty workmanship by the person who put it into the car ? |
| 23 | ‘ Was it common practice for you to journey after the King to ensure all was well . |
| 24 | Was it stubborn pride or reason which defied surrender ? |
| 25 | The main aspect of the gens which interested Engels 's and Marx was it communal character , the ways it was internally undifferentiated and the way it held property as well as people and children in common . |
| 26 | Was it open farmland ? |
| 27 | Was it erm was it hard work in the in the creamery ? |
| 28 | No score in the second half to you or to Hucklecote ; was it hard work ? |
| 29 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 30 | Together they had painted the town a decorous shade of palest pink , dancing at Le Bal Anglais , or was it Mimi Pinson , necking in other people 's rooms , walking the streets of Paris , hand in hand during one timeless and unforgettable spring . |