Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the point of arguing that justified belief is impossible , for if you were right there could be no reasons for your conclusion ? |
| 2 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 4 | I often think er and then of course you see if , if they er the airmen , their wives used to try and get er digs near where the aerodromes were so they could see their menfolk . |
| 5 | Here is an extract from the minutes of January 10 : ‘ J Peeke brought to the attention of the committee that she only had one set of keys , not two like stated at the Christmas Party when a councillor asked where the Space Invaders keys were so they could have a few free games . ’ |
| 6 | If this were so we would not find the genuine uneasiness about an influx of strangers ( or outside influences ) that can not in any realistic sense threaten the members of the group as individuals , for instance , the insistence by sections of the US citizens that English — of all languages — has to be given protection against immigrant languages by the grant of an official monopoly of public use . |
| 7 | It is probable that it was during the period which is termed the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ that the first primitive acts of homage or deference to a ‘ god ’ occurred , and if this were so it could be an indication that the need for a ‘ god ’ is fundamental to the civilising process . |
| 8 | Yeah , if you could sort of , if you could put , put erm , if you could date them wherever they were so I can just remember , alright , it 'll help me . |
| 9 | You see in those days i people i servants were so you could get servants so easily ev even if you did n't have somebody living in er you , you 'd have a daily person . |
| 10 | There is a consideration on one side , and it is said the consideration on the other is the agreement itself : if that were so there could never be a nudum pactum . |
| 11 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 12 | They were silent on the way back , walking to cool the horses ; if his father saw the state they were in he would be angry . |
| 13 | So every century we were in he 'd say ‘ We must drop in and say howdy to Michelangelo or Raphael or Donatello or Leonardo , ’ and he 'd get his picture painted . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd also known that when the chips were down she would n't back away . |
| 15 | Ramsey refused this invitation because if he were away it would be awkward for the holiday plans of the staff of Boston parish church . |
| 16 | You suggested that while you were away I should continue with my diary and record anything I would wish to talk to you about . |
| 17 | They spent the time there swimming and walking , and when the holidays were over they used to return home . |
| 18 | As soon as the congratulations were over he could go . |
| 19 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 20 | If they were not they would n't be rocks , they would be sand . |
| 21 | if a lot of others were off we 'd have to cope somehow would n't we ? |
| 22 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 23 | A number of student ‘ tides ’ were underway which can be seen as forms of adaptive behaviour or strategies for improving their social position , either temporarily or on a more permanent basis . |
| 24 | As soon as the words were out she could have kicked herself . |
| 25 | No it did n't , no the people , th the dockers were pretty reasonable , they were now I will say that dockers pretty reasonable . |
| 26 | and they were behind I 'd say , Come here now hurry up . |
| 27 | The extraordinary thing was , you could see them coming down on to the leaves as you passed and waving their heads around , sniffing , and when you were underneath they would just drop and go straight down your neck , or on to your ears , hundreds of them . |
| 28 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 29 | Who is essential is for the organisers to decide , but the ‘ non-essentials ’ who sit on platforms are basically either ignorant of the art of presentation or disdainful of it — if they were n't they would n't be there . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of our major customers were talking about EDI , and we realised that if our competitors were offering the facility and we were n't it would score against us . |