Example sentences of "be [conj] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April , I did point out that if English Heritage ( the body responsible for the preservation of England 's built heritage ) were transferred to the new Department of National Heritage ( which is now the case ) , very careful consideration would need to be given to how planning is coped with , because one of the strengths of English Heritage had been that it was placed within the Department of the Environment where government planning takes place . |
| 2 | The two are entirely compatible if it is remembered that one of the popular theories of the nature of the state itself has always been that it was founded on a contract between the individual members of a society . |
| 3 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 4 | If your original application was rejected by some or all of the institutions you listed , this might have been because it was delayed and did not reach the admissions tutor until after the course was full . |
| 5 | She had not realised how heavy the " burden had been till it was lifted . |
| 6 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 7 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 8 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 9 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 10 | ‘ Or it would be if it was rendered habitable once more . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Only he did n't leave his wife , so Marie O'Donnell returned to Ireland , and because she knew how it would be if it was known she had an illegitimate child she told everyone she was a widow . |
| 12 | In a real sense , our mind or at least , our mind as it truly is , our mind as it would be if it were purged of all individuality , partiality , incompleteness , confusion , emotion and what not , is identical with the total absolute which the business of philosophy is to study . |
| 13 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 14 | Alongside concern about the potential for disastrous accidents there was also a debate about how safe Hinkley C would be when it was operating under ‘ normal ’ conditions . |
| 15 | The disadvantages of the Article were that it was perceived as dealing with ‘ representational ’ issues that were out of place in the Convention , that it undercut the position of non-liability of member States for treaties concluded by organisations , and that it placed excessive emphasis on the exceptional situation of the European Communities . |
| 16 | Suggestions were that it was to rendezvous with another English force crossing into the Middle March ; or to meet up with Dunbar on the East March and convince him to join Balliol actively . |
| 17 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 18 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |
| 19 | The significance of this strikingly worded note is that it was written in full knowledge of the methods already being used by " local commanders " to " persuade Jugoslavs that they should return to Jugoslavia " — ie the " deception " whereby they were allowed to believe that they were being taken to Italy . |
| 20 | In our view , although the Code extends beyond the treatment of those in detention , what is clear is that it was intended to protect suspects who are vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers or who may believe themselves to be so . |
| 21 | The police say that there is no suggestion that it was the result of terrorism ; the belief rather is that it was caused by building works being carried out as part of the routine modernisation of the royal residences . |
| 22 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 23 | ( There was no way we could check this figure ; the point is that it was accepted as a social fact . ) |
| 24 | The reality is that it was beaten long ago . |
| 25 | My bet is that it was started by one cave dweller stalking another through the gravel of Peking or Java , his stone club at the ready . |
| 26 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 27 | I think all I think most of the other things I the only er one I I would like to raise is that it was agreed that the new committee should be recommended to appoint a press secretary . |
| 28 | Further , since he is only one of a significant group of bishops who came from court in the early seventh century , if there was any general transfer of secular authority to bishops in this period , and the evidence is far from clear on this , the likelihood is that it was condoned by the king . |
| 29 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |
| 30 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |