Example sentences of "[coord] was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was Germany , rather than Italy , his real destination after whatever was due to happen in Paris ? |
| 2 | Or was Italy full of slender , available girls driving ten-ton trucks . |
| 3 | There has , however , been some debate in modern times about the motivation which lay behind this huge increase in Rome 's power : was it the constant aggression of neighbouring states which prompted Rome to take protective measures , and thereby incidentally achieve this new position , or was Rome an imperialist power whose expansion was internally motivated ( for example , by land hunger or aristocratic avarice for glory ) ? |
| 4 | Did British rule transform South Asian society , or was state penetration weak in most rural areas ? |
| 5 | Was her own brain kinking her around , or was Daine trying to tie her mental patterns in knots ? |
| 6 | Was it her imagination or was George laughing at them all ? |
| 7 | Or was Otto 's summary dismissal of his friend 's insults something to do with his feeling himself of greater social and intellectual consequence than Jean-Claude ? |
| 8 | Does this mean there are n't any , or was Goldsmith merely worried about upsetting old friends ? |
| 9 | Or was Mary Ann unaware of the secret shared by the others ? |
| 10 | This would provide the basis for the defence to seek to prove during the trial that the US either knowingly tolerated or was complicit in Noriega 's illegal activities . |
| 11 | Was he , Elijah , the cause of the problem or was Ahab ? |
| 12 | ‘ The prosecution needed to prove that each defendant did , or was party to , a reckless act . |
| 13 | Nor was Washington pleased when the British resorted to their usual tricks in their search for influence over American policy . |
| 14 | Nor was Lotus a negligible factor : it had taken a severe dip in I975 , but anyone knowing Chapman had to know that Lotus declines were generally followed by Lotus ascensions ; with Andretti and Peterson driving against him , Hunt was starting the season in a star-studded field . |
| 15 | Nor was Anna Essinger much interested in Jewish nationalism . |
| 16 | Payment was never made for a vessel taken from its owner for royal service ; nor was compensation for loss of a ship , or even damage to its equipment , normally given . |
| 17 | Nor was Crécy the end of the campaign . |
| 18 | Nor was government aid to the landlord restricted to armed assistance . |
| 19 | Nor was conflict within Merovingian society the sole cause of destruction : the passage of an army heading for campaigns outside the Frankish kingdom could be devastating , as the Septimanian expedition of 585 revealed . |
| 20 | Nor was Oswiu necessarily without allies in the north of Britain . |
| 21 | Nor was Wilkins a layman championing a secular cause . |
| 22 | Dissent was not a fundamental right of Spaniards , nor was freedom of expression . |
| 23 | Nor was Britain the only colonial power to incorporate existing native rulers into a system of colonial administration . |
| 24 | Nor was Crumwallis anxious to take over periods in other subjects when there was need — as in cases of sickness or ( frequently ) death . |
| 25 | Nor was Baldwin in any way a notable Harrow figure . |
| 26 | Nor was Baldwin troubled with the industrial unrest which culminated in the General Strike during his first administration . |
| 27 | Nor was Mrs Sutcliffe a national character or a character of national reputation . |
| 28 | Nor was hegemony an inevitable or universal phenomenon , and conscious efforts to combat it at the ideological level were a necessary part of the socialist project . |
| 29 | Nor was Burton afraid of him : Jones appreciated that . |
| 30 | Nor was Vivien Saunders , who recently won her second British Coach of the Year award , being wise after the event when she talked of how , in her teaching , she emphasises nothing so much as that a youngster should attack the hole . |