Sentence examples for it was would be from inspiring English sources
The reality sunk in: This disease, whatever it was, would be part of their lives.
But the problem was that then whatever it was would be in ten years, or in twenty years.
And I could see that arguing about whose fault it was would be fruitless and would just make the situation much worse.
If I could make it to the weekend, I was sure that by Monday, Monday at the latest, whatever was wrong with me, this feeling of anger, hopelessness, turmoil, whatever it was, would be gone.
In the swing states particularly, he is so far behind that a single strong performance on his part, however impressive it was, would be unlikely to close the gap.
Certain freedoms, clearly, were not forthcoming; it was evident that Raúl's "transition," whatever else it was, would be more a Cuban version of those we have witnessed in China, Vietnam, and the other handful of remaining Communist states: an economic opening, not necessarily a political one.
Not that the plot, such as it is, would be affected much either way.
It's would be the iPhone minus the phone.
To lose someone who genuinely says it how it is would be a travesty.
At the age of eight he wrote The Castle of Mystery, episodes from the casebook of a Victorian detective (the first few pages of which appear in What a Carve Up!), and by the age of 15 he had sent off a full-length comic novel to a publisher – "it was would-be Kingsley Amis, or actually would-be Spike Milligan, who was more important to me at the time".
