Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | foreshadowed the ‘ construction ’ approach in Lonrho by treating the common law criminal contempt as if it were created by a hypothetical enactment and asking what intention was to be inferred , with regard to civil liability , from the exercise of the contempt jurisdiction . |
| 2 | If it were formatted as an RLL drive , then you 'd get 31.2Mb out of it . |
| 3 | As the whole system is headed by a man , it is likely that the village has to move more frequently than if it were headed by a woman . |
| 4 | If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority . |
| 5 | If it were imposed on a narrow range of products , would it not encourage substitution ( from plastics to glass , for instance ) ? |
| 6 | Emphasizing each word as though it were followed by an exclamation mark , he announced , grinning : ‘ Here — is — Zamoyski ! ’ |
| 7 | For long chains , co-operative motion can not be expected to extend along the entire length , and the polymer tends to act as if it were composed of a series of interconnected , but independent , kinetic units . |
| 8 | Details of it were stored on a floppy disk . |
| 9 | Consequently it seemed likely in early May that Japan would avoid the mandatory trade sanctions which would follow if it were named as an unfair trader under the so-called " Super 301 " clause of the 1988 Trade Act [ see pp. 36925-26 ] . |
| 10 | It would be a pity if talk of road pricing were to divert attention from commonsense action needed now , or if it were seen as a substitute for a properly funded roads programme . |
| 11 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | They had realised , as William Pitt had done , that minimum wage legislation , even if it were based on a family with three children , was not enough to meet the need of all families . |
| 13 | Ooh the they had er it we it were built as a proper music hall was that you know . |
| 14 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 15 | ‘ As though it were sworn in a court-room , ’ confirmed the detective . |
| 16 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 17 | If , however , it were marketed as a child 's toy or the blade were such that when used to peel potatoes it disintegrated into splinters , then it would not be as safe as people generally were entitled to expect . |
| 18 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 19 | However exciting his paper , his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into a conventional historical discourse . |
| 20 | But the disguise , if it were meant as a disguise , had been ineffective . |
| 21 | I 'll get Annunziata to keep something hot in the kitchen and then if you 'd rather not be bothered with us tonight , you can have it there — or in bed , if that would be better , ’ said Julia , her heart feeling as though it were held in a tightening vice as she saw his misery . |
| 22 | If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class . |
| 23 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 24 | Delisting would do Jardine Matheson no good in Hong Kong ( though it would certainly do less harm if it were attributed to a row with the regulators than , say , to lack of faith in the future of the place ) . |
| 25 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 26 | This morning , having forced herself to her study , still wearing her dressing-gown and clutching a second cup of coffee as if it were attached to a lifeline , she began searching among her papers for the output of the previous day . |
| 27 | The idea that England was an ‘ Empire ’ was not new : it was asserted in a letter from Cuthbert Tunstall to Henry VIII in 1517 : ‘ But the Crown of England is an Empire of hitself … : for which cause your Grace werith a close crown . ’ |
| 28 | In Liverpool , where it had a branch , it was condemned as an organisation " whose administration is in the hands of boarding masters and which fails to inspire the respect of the labouring community " . |
| 29 | The ‘ bomb ’ was sent 700 miles south to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where it was exposed to a beam of muons produced in the laboratory 's particle accelerator . |
| 30 | It was fractured with a solvent-cleaned chisel , and the outer orange layer discarded . |