Example sentences of "[conj] it were [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia drove through Belgium and into Germany wishing with all she had that it were Saturday and that her interview with the highly esteemed author were over . |
| 2 | A fourth , after asking if it were April the first , collapsed into giggles and hung up . |
| 3 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 4 | A Belgian cycling union official confirmed that an unnamed rider had tested positive and said that if it were Yates , he would receive a 10-minute penalty that would lose him the race . |
| 5 | If it were March and we were still drawing the curtains at four . |
| 6 | ‘ If it were Ben , ‘ Louise told Zoe , ‘ I would n't wage a long slow war of attrition , or whatever it is your doing . |
| 7 | If it were Oliver he would have called out to her , come to meet her as soon as he heard the key in the lock . |
| 8 | as if it were January instead of August . |
| 9 | Which means that Berowne , if it were Berowne , stood behind him . ‘ |
| 10 | I stroke my beard , as if it were Timmy 's brow , trying to soothe myself to sleep . |
| 11 | I 'd heard Dad and Eva in the bar analysing the performance as if it were Miles Davis 's farewell appearance . |
| 12 | The appearance of a specific theory of gravitation in the resolution of the problem , even if it were Einstein 's own , seemed a trifle odd . |
| 13 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 14 | Moon walked this section as if it were HVS , only to fail just below the top . |
| 15 | Treating some created thing as if it were God . |
| 16 | Now , if it were Ronnie Biggs … |
| 17 | Not as if it were Mr James giving a treat . |
| 18 | If it were Northern Ireland we 'd call it war . |
| 19 | This possibility may be less prominent if it were Jack and Jill who went to the cinema . |
| 20 | It would nt be so bad if it were Leeds RLFC , at least thered be some revenue generated . |
| 21 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 22 | " I ca n't think what pearl you and I could make , " Sara said , " unless it were Moorlake . " |
| 23 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
| 24 | Urban II himself paid homage to this point of view when he introduced Anselm to the Curia as ‘ one who is almost our equal , being as it were Pope and Patriarch of the alter orbis ' . |
| 25 | In essence then , at this philosophical level , Callinicos is marrying historical materialism and analytical philosophy , as it were Marx and Wittgenstein , in order to defeat a range of new and old Idealisms : principally that tradition , dismissive of Enlightenment rationalism , descending from Nietzsche via Heidegger to a bathetic end in Lyotard and Baudrillard . |