Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt strange — no , it felt right that we should all know each other , as it were automatically : we , who had gathered here for a preternatural purpose . |
| 2 | Whatever you desire , start thinking and acting as though it were already true — in whatever small ways are possible . |
| 3 | Act as if it were already true . |
| 4 | The air was heavy with thick , herbal smells , as though it were already late June ; the water-mint and marjoram , not yet flowering , gave off scent from their leaves and here and there an early meadow-sweet stood in bloom . |
| 5 | Further , Childeric 's grave was apparently forgotten about ; the horse burials which surrounded it were already cut into in the sixth century by secondary inhumations . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want anything , ’ he said roughly , though he was no longer sure if it were strictly true . |
| 7 | Moreover , even if an absolute condition of that sort discriminated against women , it would be permissible if it were objectively justifiable in the circumstances — if , say , people without bank accounts were clearly unreliable payers . |
| 8 | it used to be known as it was a war do , war factory but you cut them open it were nearly all casing . |
| 9 | They were particularly anxious to avoid having ‘ topic ’ , in discourse study , treated as if it were somehow expressible by a simple noun phrase , as often happens in the treatment of sentential topics . |
| 10 | The Manchu 's half bow and the response of the surveyors to it were equally cold . |
| 11 | But the perquisites and the influence which court office brought with it were probably , for most men , adequate compensation . |
| 12 | After a decent pause , or , put it another way , a pause of two seconds , Lawley responded , as it were feelingly yet firmly : ‘ Record number five ’ . |
| 13 | If it were slightly longer at the sides and the bellends were larger to accommodate more gear this would be one of the best geodesic tents around . |
| 14 | The Ambassador gave a diagonal nod of the head , as if it were slightly impertinent to know more than he did about local matters . |
| 15 | In our attempt to understand a group of complex phenomena we pick on some ‘ simple ’ starting-point such as a need , and proceed to treat it as though it were completely transparent . |
| 16 | But now she was being drawn , as it were unwillingly , into his world which although intellectual — abstract , even — was , she was discovering , informed by deep , profound passion . |
| 17 | I thought many parts of it were pretty drab . |
| 18 | Instead , the logical policy is to tax consumption , at a rate which reflects not the disposal cost of a good but the costs which would be inflicted on society if it were illegally dumped . |
| 19 | As it were apart from the bottled water that the gentleman there buys . |
| 20 | I thought they said it were over ? |
| 21 | No I know , that 's what she said , she 'd wondered where that were coming from cos it were right up here . |
| 22 | and then er I thought oh I might as well put some veg in , you know , so I put some veg in , so when we , I says oh I 'll do this , I 'll do this stew , you know , nearly to finish it like , and erm when we come in we 'll have a meal ready for us , it were right nice coming into it meal ready |
| 23 | It were right high one |
| 24 | And it were right nice , and he 'd done some lovely onion gravy ! |
| 25 | It were right funny though . |
| 26 | So because we 're doing something from our normal end of the spectrum as it were right through to trying to involve everybody in the city , erm we 're hoping to get the issue across to a lot more people , and also raise money while we 're doing it . |
| 27 | Supposing it were simply words which now meant little , something vague perhaps . |
| 28 | ‘ The damage that has been done in the pursuit of production is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business ’ BRIAN REDHEAD |
| 29 | That is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business . |
| 30 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |