Example sentences of "this [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.15:IF this were over hurdles , Dawson City would have lumps in hand . |
| 2 | It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot . |
| 3 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 4 | The only national figures quoted on this were for 1939–40 but these showed 48% and 24% respectively . |
| 5 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 6 | If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large . |
| 7 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 8 | However , evidence suggests that non-business travel is also important and can cover 67 per cent of all movement ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) ; if this were to be substantially reduced by remote linkages by telephone or other means , the consequences for continued viability of still more rural public transport routes could be serious , especially where comparatively minor variations in demand can be critical . |
| 9 | If this were to be so , it would make a mockery of the caution and the concept of the right to silence after a charge has been preferred . |
| 10 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 11 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 12 | No decisions would ever be made if this were to be demanded . |
| 13 | If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel . |
| 14 | If this were to be the position when goods perish after the risk has passed to the buyer , it would be a contradiction in terms . |
| 15 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 16 | " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " . |
| 17 | She 'd be wise to push him out of her mind — if this were at all possible — and before she made a complete idiot of herself . |
| 18 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 19 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 20 | This were in a school playground . |
| 21 | Informed sources in the Caribbean thought it likely that the political maneouvrings behind all this were by way of a reprisal for a report by Lord Avebury criticizing Forbes Burnham 's ruling party for election-rigging . |
| 22 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 23 | That said , he barely engaged with the details of the argument , dismissing the very notion of the lists as if this were beneath consideration . |
| 24 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 25 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 26 | In 1901 one person in 20 was aged over 65 , by 1981 this was about 1 in 7 |
| 27 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 28 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 29 | This was about the year 1200 ( the charter is undated ) , but there is the fishpond today . |
| 30 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |