Example sentences of "if it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If 't were another |
| 2 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 3 | Energy was directed mainly to the primary sector , where , until recently , it was impossible to have anything but a church-sponsored school if it was to be funded by the state . |
| 4 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |
| 5 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 6 | What if it was n't ? he said . |
| 7 | If it was finished I would n't say abandoned , I said . |
| 8 | But if it was a local person … |
| 9 | ‘ If it was four in the morning , he 'd have told them what to do with their water main . ’ |
| 10 | If it was murder we shall be informed in the Family 's good time . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 12 | I mean , if it was there , I 'd have it ! |
| 13 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 14 | In 1988 a visiting colleague from the Royal Ulster Constabulary asked if it was part of my role in Systems Development Department to comment on such essays . |
| 15 | as if it was penance . |
| 16 | If it was conditioning it was deep as her bones and marrow . |
| 17 | God , if it was just time ! |
| 18 | Along at Moness House James Flemyng and his wife looked at each other apprehensively and wondered if it was time to bar the shutters . |
| 19 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 20 | I could write as if it was someone else … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If it was n't for the drink , I might n't have told you . |
| 22 | ‘ Did you hear that Steve , they would n't say the opposite if it was raining . ’ |
| 23 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 24 | If it was not for the Grand Slam tournaments and the unique place they hold in the game , I am sure we would be losing this vital battle . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I was alone and had no idea if it was going to attack . |
| 26 | The one who was doctrinaire was Williams , who regarded the iambic measure as a chief curse of the English legacy from which American poetry must free itself if it was ever to stand on its own . |
| 27 | Australian Mutual received approval from the Department of Trade and Industry which it needed if it was to hold more than 15 per cent of Pearl 's shares , the level at which a shareholder is regarded as ‘ controlling ’ an insurance company . |
| 28 | If it was , it would jeopardise its position as the gateway to China . ’ |
| 29 | At the very least , the exhibition provides food for thought : as the 21st century nears , do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th ? |
| 30 | ‘ I would be surprised if it was decided to bring Old Vic back to tackle a mile and a quarter , even though it would be a nice idea , ’ he said . |