Example sentences of "[conj] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , oh where was the Lily of yesterday ? |
| 2 | Did you have a salty meal the day before that caused you to retain water , or was the last meal of the day unusually late ? |
| 3 | Or was the drawing unrelated to his feelings for Eugenie ? |
| 4 | Earlier in his decision , however , he had posed the question , ‘ was the child 's life going to be so demonstrably awful that it should be condemned to die ; or was the kind of life so imponderable that it would be wrong to condemn her to die ? ’ |
| 5 | Or was the whole episode simply an occasion for our own informed superior merriment ? |
| 6 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 7 | Was Baal truly sovereign or was the Lord ? |
| 8 | Was it because in some way he blamed Francis for his mother 's death — or was the reason less dramatic ? |
| 9 | These types of problem extend even to the more commonplace types of metalwork in which the lack of replication might lead to the suggestion that everyday items were produced locally as required ; but were such technical skills possessed by someone on every farm or hamlet , at only a few locations , or was the craftsman a mobile specialist ? |
| 10 | Or was the colonial thrust resented and opposed ? |
| 11 | Very much the Front Page look today , I thought , or was the hangover worse than usual ? |
| 12 | Or was the 1980 result merely a personal victory for Reagan ? |
| 13 | Was the child allowed to express a wide and deep range of emotion , or was the expression of particular feelings taboo ? |
| 14 | Or was the change a more superficial one in which a crude , but no longer viable , form of isolation was replaced by a more subtle variant , in which the techniques of the West were adopted to preserve and strengthen an essentially unchanged sense of cultural uniqueness and social order , and ensure survival in an unpredictable and hostile world ? |
| 15 | Or was the lancelet-shape the more ancient pattern from which animals like sea squirts developed by sticking their heads to rocks , losing their muscles and retreating into as undemanding a life-style as the seas can provide ? |
| 16 | Or was the way they engaged with these theoretical explanations of racism governed by the same conditions as applied to their reading of the ‘ primary ’ material ? |
| 17 | Does the sustained militancy of the Russian working class reveal the ‘ law-governed ’ essence of capitalist development and the inevitability of its overthrow , or was the Russian case an aberration , a unique deviant from the norm represented by western Europe ? |
| 18 | Or was the world to wake up renewed ? |
| 19 | This provision did not take into account the substantial number of businesses in the licensed trade which are owned and operated by bodies corporate or incorporate and not by individual persons , with the result that the licence holder was a company official who exercised little or no control over the day-to-day running of the premises , or was the manager of the premises , and whose employment could be terminated at any time , irrespective of the date of expiry of the licence , either by his own volition or by his employer 's . |
| 20 | Erm from you from your experience in the , the negotiating of that , that kind of er deal and just from what you saw of it working in factories , er do you think that management quite explicitly sought to , to create some division or was the division that arose wh you 're talking about the fitters being on a different scheme from the other members of the workforce ? |
| 21 | Or was the metal never applied in the first place ? |
| 22 | Or was the assassin already here ? |
| 23 | Or was the assassin sent by the King , his son , Gaveston , or even the French ? |
| 24 | Was it her imagination or was the man opposite her regarding her warily ? |
| 25 | Or was the Leader of the Opposition wrong and does the hon. Gentleman agree with that ? |
| 26 | When the figure of 175 was given , was that simply the clause 2 figure for England , or was the clause 5 figure for the Welsh inspectorate also included ? |
| 27 | So the question becomes one not so much of scoring as of affect : did Monseiur Blondel sing Hymen straight , or was the part conceived rather in a humorous vein ? |
| 28 | Did Albert Johanson play ont' left wing or was the oldbugger injured as usual ? |
| 29 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 30 | Or was the furthest the inspector walked , asked the man ( who had the relaxed tones of an old-fashioned weekend hippy and said he was a representative of the people ) from the underground station to the office ? |