Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And before that , or was it after — there were the Barbary pirates ? |
| 2 | Or was it that the kitchen reminded Dalgliesh of that rectory kitchen where the lonely only child had found warmth and undemanding , uncensorious companionship , been given hot dripping toast and small forbidden treats ? |
| 3 | They went back — except for Pardy who came forward — or was it that the others went back and he was left alone in a forward position ? |
| 4 | In other words , did the religious belief stimulate the precise astronomical observation , or was it that the study of the skies gave rise to beliefs about the gods ? |
| 5 | Or was it that they developed their legends of the deities and then saw' those deities portrayed in the sky ? |
| 6 | But was Picasso fond of the different women he was with or was it that he just liked them physically , and he was able to use them in his work ? |
| 7 | Or was it that expectations were being aroused which he did not know if he could meet ? |
| 8 | Again , did they notice or was it that this is how they know things are ? |
| 9 | ‘ But was she belittling the symptoms , or was it that she was more concerned about something else ? |
| 10 | Did it come as a sudden revelation and a flash of light to Brigadier Crawley , or was it that the development corporation , with its vast capital expenditure , needed a prestige project to give it credence in the eyes of the commercial world ? |
| 11 | I also remember leaving about 5 mins before the end to make the 5 mile walk to the station , only to hear the Leeds goal … or was it that I thought the noise was Leeds making it 3–2 ? ? ? |
| 12 | Or was it because it was Finn who kissed her and not a man like the men in whose arms she had imagined herself when she used to imagine things like that , in the past ? |
| 13 | Or was it because he had had two daughters before the son he wanted eventually arrived and by then he was too old , with all the eagerness and spontaneity of early fatherhood dried up ? |
| 14 | Or was it because he was the way he was that she had walked out one day when Dadda was at work and he at school , leaving a note on the kitchen table and the remains of the week 's housekeeping money ? |
| 15 | Or was it because the show was set in the 1950s , the sun always shone , the table always groaned under Ma Larkin 's home-made goodies , and nothing nasty ever happened ? |
| 16 | that they they were n't as s solid as the older men let's say or was it because they had n't |
| 17 | Team spirit it was that refused to leave out the reserves or was it because there was an accountant in one of the teams . |
| 18 | Yes er somehow they , they 'd , they 'd got it , or was it or did I have to fill in a a census form just at the time when Paul was with me ? |
| 19 | Nor was it that reforms already undertaken by Russia 's post-communist government , if only supported with a pile of hard currency , will deliver a lasting rise in living standards — because Russia has not yet done anything like enough . |
| 20 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 21 | On the Labour side , what seemed to be a golden opportunity was not taken , nor was it when it first arose , namely to pin responsibility for the Gulf war , and the sufferings of British hostages in it , on the government 's blunder in not seeing that Saddam Hussein would invade Kuwait . |
| 22 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 23 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 24 | Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ? |
| 25 | And was it because he did n't want to leave ? |