Example sentences of "was is " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked Lord Aldington : ‘ Subterfuge was your first thought was is not ? ’ |
| 2 | Helen Thomas 's As It Was is a principal source . |
| 3 | We do n't ask a Hollywood actor whether his latest blockbusting performance was fuelled by cocaine or booze ( though to be told that it was is mildly titillating ) , so why should we care how unorthodox were the preparations that preceded the athlete 's explosion off the blocks ? |
| 4 | Unfortunately , a combination of ‘ traffic ’ problems and overdoing the waiting tactics brought about his downfall , but Glasgow will know more about was is required today and can recover loses . |
| 5 | Who the latter was is difficult to establish . |
| 6 | Similarly , The Prelude constantly alludes to classical epic and in particular to Paradise Lost , though how conscious an intention of the poet this was is debatable . |
| 7 | Someone once said that a sign of how civilized a society was is shown in how they treated their old people . |
| 8 | Oh that was is that true ? |
| 9 | At other times it may be barely admitted to consciousness , if whatever it was is seen as threatening to the self . |
| 10 | Was is he gon na |
| 11 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 12 | Yes at the moment another time I was n't going to buy anything from Chile , and er I was asking the young man who was is this from Chile , oh I do n't want them . |
| 13 | ‘ Scottish medieval churches were intended first and foremost as the setting for elaborate sung services , and without some appreciation of the music of those services any mental reconstruction of the church as it once was is incomplete , ’ says Richard Fawcett , Principle Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 14 | Now retired the art teacher as was is painting flat out full time whilst the other runs the distaff side . |
| 15 | Their participation in such competitions was is expensive . |
| 16 | Th th the point that erm we were then discussing was that in practice of course males may , m ma may contribute a lot more an and , and the question was is this er something to do with the adaptions of our species or is it just the this was the question you , you asked me was n't it ? |
| 17 | There 's a corollary to th that was is our impression , from the various views that were sp s spelt out around the table . |
| 18 | ‘ Was is the operative word : he died last Saturday . ’ |
| 19 | How formal this take-over was is an open question ; to a large extent the evidence derives from the funerary inscriptions of fifth- and sixth-century bishops , where the epithet defensor civitatis might refer to the dead man 's achievements rather than his office . |
| 20 | In The Gun , whatever lunchtime crush there was is thinning out . |
| 21 | That was is was that the doing the selling er you 've got roofing foreman here but that was the doing of was it ? |
| 22 | Lee McSwan , 22 , of Bos-combe Down , Wiltshire , was is custody and would appear today before magistrates at Salisbury , the spokesman added . |
| 23 | But if BBC top brass are overtly supporting their director general then there was is the same viewpoint from lower down in the BBC from those concerned over their jobs and those with scores to settle . |
| 24 | Oh yeah that one , that 's not so bad , it 's the other stuff this er was is it , Saladene that that 's a wo a wood preservative it 's a got a s stainer now that 's not very strong I can still smell it now you know . |
| 25 | I do n't was is about school ? |
| 26 | Like this it was is it ? |
| 27 | Was is it a foul then ? |
| 28 | But the stupid thing is it ai n't where the barn was is it ? |
| 29 | What was is then ? |
| 30 | What she says was is erm |