Example sentences of "[noun] were ever to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children , too , were rather expected to play , and to play quietly , behind the house no balls or tin trumpets were ever to be left on the gravel sweep . |
| 2 | There is also the question of your sister 's reputation if her part in this , er … concealment were ever to be made public . |
| 3 | If the lead were ever to be sold to radiation detector manufacturers it would raise more than the £24000 it has cost to salvage the hull . |
| 4 | None of those who sniped at his film career were ever to be so lasciviously tempted . |
| 5 | If a Labour Government were ever to be tried , he declared , ‘ it could hardly be tried under safer conditions . ’ |
| 6 | Only if Denmark 's freedom were ever to be threatened , so the legend ran , would he reawaken in her defence . |
| 7 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |
| 8 | The Declaration recognized that such radical economic readjustment policies in several of the countries present had already entailed widespread " sacrifice " and that this had to end if true social justice were ever to be achieved . |