Example sentences of "it were in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the polls show that most voters want inflation stopped , and the main opposition , the Workers ' party , while formally denouncing the plan as ‘ authoritarian , demagogic , privatising and favourable to foreign capital ’ , may merely wish it were in a position to do likewise . |
| 2 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 3 | If it were in the silence that the blackbirds speak to each other ? |
| 4 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 5 | Alternatively , you could create a small design as though it were in a vase or a natural spray , and then surround it with an archway of flowers This would then have no mount , but just a plainish frame , to avoid the overall effect seeming too cluttered . |
| 6 | It were in the 1920s and it was a passenger train from Cleethorpes to Doncaster and the driver , well , he was a hard , fast driver and he was n't popular with firemen . |
| 7 | The polemical and ideological edge to this debate must be borne in mind : not all those engaged in it were in favour of increased public spending , due to fears about its effects on investment and on incentives ; and in some quarters it was passionately felt that the ageing of society was socially , economically , and even politically undesirable ( Thane forthcoming ) , and hence that its dangers should be emphasized . |
| 8 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 9 | ‘ It is our view that the ‘ levels ’ [ punishment ] system at Glenthorne would , if it were in any other secure facility , contravene the Children 's Homes Regulations , ’ says the report of the advisory group , chaired by Winifred Tumim . |
| 10 | It were in the 1890s . |
| 11 | We know from experimental evidence that dreams proceed as it were in " real " time , and are just as long as they seem . |
| 12 | There the nectar does not evaporate as quickly as it would if it were in a more exposed position . |
| 13 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 14 | The road to follow up into the low hills is marked with the sign ‘ Coteaux de Jurançon ’ , though it is also quite easy to lose once you are up there ; but when vineyards are so thin on the ground as it were in this part of the country , there is every reason to get briefly lost amongst them . |
| 15 | And how did you actually , I mean , did you do all this er er er , as it were in an amateur way or did you do through any kind of profe , wi with the help of doctors or |
| 16 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 17 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 18 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |
| 19 | ‘ Were you going out ? ’ inquired Miss Coldharbour with her customary detachment , as though it were in Julia 's power to determine her hours of work . |
| 20 | She wrote to the organisers : ‘ If it were in your mind to approach any B-division celebrities , I should say I shall be taking Jeffrey with me . ’ |
| 21 | I should happily give way — if it were in my power to do so — to give them the opportunity to dissociate themselves from that appalling motion . |
| 22 | Does the Secretary of State accept that Britain has the most cost efficient coal industry in Europe , producing the cheapest coal , and that if it were in any one of the other 11 European countries there would be no question of its further contraction at this time ? |
| 23 | One issue that is particularly damaging is the decision by the Labour party that if it were in power it would tax British farmers and give the money to the farmers of Spain , Portugal and Greece . |
| 24 | Speaking of the alleged reprocessing facility he stated that " if it were in operation and complete , then it would certainly in our terminology be called a reprocessing plant " . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish it were in my power to give you a faithful picture of this famed city of two years standing . |
| 26 | Much more difficult for a woman because by the time a woman 's got into her forties , her child rearing erm career is usually rather short and even if she wants to continue , it becomes much more hazardous for her and for her offspring , so er in , in the case of erm modern societies with erm monogamy bu but divorce as we have , you ca n't help thinking that to some extent the , the odds are , are loaded in the favour of men as it were in terms of their reproductive success . |
| 27 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 28 | The work of the craftsman is to realise an inner idea in a way that is beautiful , useful and enduring , and as his work is the object of his satisfaction and delight ( " if it were in his power to produce an effect which would know and love him , this he would assuredly do " ) , so man is created for God who alone satisfies his nature . |
| 29 | The readership to be considered was the actual or at least predictable reading public rather than the precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl into whose hands it might perchance fall — unless it were in fact aimed at or distributed to fourteen-year-old schoolgirls , by whose vulnerability to corruption it should then be judged . |
| 30 | The strikers , protesting against the threat of compulsory redundancies , gave leaflets to customers looking at the Mondeo on its promotion day , pointing out that many of the skills which went into it were in danger of being wiped out . |