Example sentences of "it were [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious that Austria-Hungary would not allow the Russians to invade Bulgaria ; a year before she had disliked the possibility of a united and strengthened Bulgaria , even if it were on bad terms with Russia , and the prospect of one under Russia 's thumb was even worse . |
| 2 | My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism . |
| 3 | It hides as it were behind dominant genes which are normally okay . |
| 4 | as it were against old Sturge M 's bull-dog , |
| 5 | Now we 're , it were in bloody paper last on Thursday , they do n't get nothing when they 're on holiday . |
| 6 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |