Example sentences of "[was/were] it [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately the process is explicitly parallel and were it to be run on multiprocessor hardware then there could be substantial speed-up . |
| 2 | Even were it to be filled with the rinse water from a nappy wash , as long as it was hot it would be shared round with glee and noises of appreciation . |
| 3 | Were it to be used on any other domain , it is likely that a negative ( and therefore potentially damaging ) effect would result . |
| 4 | What is certain is that , did it exist and were it to be opened by some ‘ cleansing regime ’ , the happy openness of British life would go for good . |
| 5 | The British attitude had long been clear : the 1951 Conservative government had continued to follow the line laid down by the previous Labour foreign minister , Ernest Bevin , who said in the House of Commons in November 1950 that Britain preferred an expansion of the Treaty of Brussels to serve as the basis of military cooperation within NATO , but would not object to the EDC were it to be established . |
| 6 | What was it to be filled by ? |
| 7 | And how was it to be achieved — was there agreement about it within the leadership and the wider society , and did a political agency exist that could bring it into being ? |
| 8 | How was it to be achieved ? |
| 9 | Or was it to be understood as the horrified realization that , in the words of Hercule Poirot , ‘ It might have been ME . ’ |
| 10 | Was it to be done by casting lots ? |
| 11 | Never was it to be regarded as ‘ underground ’ , but it was the straw in the wind . |
| 12 | What was it to be called ? |
| 13 | How was it to be dredged up again ? |
| 14 | So a drug which acted during this phase , a ‘ true causal prophylactic ’ , was exactly what was wanted , but how was it to be found ? |