Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Or was it just noises in the skull ?
2	Would anyone else have mocked her , or was it just Guido ?
3	Or was it only Feargal and his half-sister ?
4	No prizes then , for guessing that that was the British National Anthem , erm , God Save the King as it was , or was it originally God Save the Queen , it was King , er when you grew up
5	Nor was there much inclination in France to pursue an active military policy .
6	Nor was there much evidence of concern in the correspondence columns of The Times — that bush-telegraph of respectable opinion — which were absorbed with more pressing matters such as the scarcity of swallows in England that summer .
7	Nor was there much evidence elsewhere , even before the open disturbances of the late 1980s , that non-Russian nationalities were merging their identity into that of a greater Soviet community .
8	Federal laws governing hazardous waste were not then in effect , nor was there much money to clean up tips .
9	Nor was there much room for individual initiative .
10	Nor was it only characters in novels who were afflicted by the malaise .
11	Nor was it only Norway that shunned him : the invading Germans could n't stand him either .
12	Nor was it much consolation to the church that the extension of prohibitions was less the result of deliberate crown policy ( though the king certainly assisted by the provision of new writs ) than of popular demand among suitors , often clergy litigating against clergy .
13	And were there ever family squabbles which ruined a race ?
14	Did not the patients charter cost £2 million to publicise and launch and was it not £2 million worth of Conservative propaganda ?
15	‘ And was it just coincidence that I get invited to the Flaxton dance , that I 'm seated next to him ?
16	And was it ever innocence ? ’
17	But were they really freeholders in the first place ?

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