Example sentences of "if [pron] was to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Buffon remarked : ‘ Young cats are gay , vivacious , frolicksome , and , if nothing was to be apprehended from their claws , would afford excellent amusement to children . |
| 2 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |
| 3 | If I was to be arrested , I would be arrested with dignity . |
| 4 | For the first time she began to wonder if she was to be given leadership beyond the context of Africa . |
| 5 | If she was to be betrayed yet again , then she would go with banners flying , trumpets braying , and no tears to speed her on her way . |
| 6 | If she was to be left at home she showed no interest . |
| 7 | But in 1981 I tried to go further and identify a set of criteria which any proposed biochemical or cellular correspondent of memory formation would have to meet if it was to be regarded as a candidate memory process . |
| 8 | If they were not employed , that did not mean that the legacy was at once void ; but if it was to be saved , all depended on construing the necessary verba sollemnia . |
| 9 | This time it was widely recognised that a change in policy was necessary if it was to be achieved . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Old-style Falangists occupied the ministries associated with social and political control ( Interior , Army , Labour and the Party Secretariat ) , but portfolios connected with the external image of the regime and the assurance of its future ( such as Justice , Foreign Affairs , Education and Public Works ) were assigned to men guided less by rigid ideological concepts than by their awareness that the world had changed since 1945 and that Spain needed to adapt if it was to be counted among the leading nations in the post-war world . |
| 12 | If it was to be provided in addition to principal repayments in the revenue account , then local authorities ' capital would increase . |
| 13 | But the danger of a centre party came not from McKenna but from the Unionist ex-Coalitionists , led by Austen Chamberlain , who had twice previously been Chancellor , and who , if he was to be brought back into the fold , would clearly require some substantial offer . |
| 14 | People were poor ; even the better-off worked grinding hours on their farms , and if anything was to be fussed over , it was the old people or the children . |
| 15 | If anything was to be found it would not lie in the open . |