Example sentences of "if [pron] were [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm far too tired , even if I were at all tempted . |
| 2 | if I were in real distress , and I was told , Mary , that you pitied me , it would n't cheer me up at all . |
| 3 | If one wants to be accepted as a mainstream , serious film-maker it does n't strike me , if I were in that position , as a shrewd career move . |
| 4 | If she were of full age her ability to consent would have two separate effects . |
| 5 | Abruptly she felt as if she were on some kind of mental treadmill , returning to the same overworked grievance . |
| 6 | His grand-daughter , Tatyana Tolstaya ( born in 1951 ) , writes sometimes as if she were in direct communication with the ghosts of the world that vanished when Alexei Nikolaevich was still a young man . |
| 7 | On balance , she felt enough loyalty to Gilbert and enough concern about Amy to feel that , if she were alive and if she were by any chance a party to her husband 's death , the Church rather than the police should be her first sanctuary . |
| 8 | Right well you twenty five thousand a year is about the minimum the company er you would n't be doing the job if you were below that . |
| 9 | He always swore that when he was going over the Baloch that 's the the road between Glen Ayloch and Kil and Glen Shee , he said i if you were at certain hour of the night he said as sure as anything there was a man on horseback pass you with this horse . |
| 10 | If you were on one side of the inside edge of the ring and you wanted to get to a point on the other side , you would have to go round the inner edge of the ring . |
| 11 | tell me what arrangements have you got your with your employer if you were on long term sickness ? |
| 12 | If you were aged 40 or more in 1978 , multiply by the number of years before you will be 60 , the state retirement age . |
| 13 | If you desire a loving , intimate relationship , ask yourself how you would think , feel and behave if you were in that relationship — and do it now . |
| 14 | If you were in private accommodation you were noth , you were nothing like so well off . |
| 15 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ Finnan went on , ‘ seeing your company so finely decked out for travelling , if you were by any chance headed the same way ? ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , but I mean if you were like that in the morning well its worse |
| 17 | I liked that idea : it seemed aristocratic to me , just walking out empty-handed as if we were above all objects . |
| 18 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 19 | erm strike out , interim payment , order fourteen er itself , there 's always still available to them , erm that the other side of the coin is if they get their money and of course they 're going to be threatening bankruptcy for some four thousand odd Names , I mean that 's , that 's equally devastating to individuals , erm my Lord , one would be into a type of argument on balance of convenience if we were at this stage , one would be considering the bankruptcy of the names , whether they have the funds to pay , even if judgment is given against them because vast majority do n't and what would be the point of giving judgment , this order fourteen cases saying one should n't do it in those circumstances , what if the names are right , will they get the money back , will they get a cross undertaking damages and pre er , er and to what extent do now have the funds , to what extent will it actually effect their business in the light of of |
| 20 | Holding onto the balcony as if we were in rough seas , we shout only to have our words whipped away . |
| 21 | ‘ If we were in Catholic west Belfast instead of Protestant north Belfast we would be treated differently . ’ |
| 22 | And , if there were times those qualities seemed exaggerated , she understood . |
| 23 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
| 24 | The whole thing must be nearly over — hardly anything on the stalls — nothing to eat — people looking surreptitiously at their watches wondering if they were at all justified in slipping away home . |
| 25 | Though if they were for young William or for herself , she could not be sure . |
| 26 | I suppose TV companies could potentially show both matches if they were on different nights , but if they do n't matter who 's gon na watch two nights of essentially meaningless football ? ( this of course is only true of the last couple of rounds of qualification ) . |
| 27 | These children were eligible to enter the trial if they were between 37 and 43 weeks of age and if their immunisation record indicated that they had received their first dose of OPV between 6 and 12 weeks of age and their second and third doses at 4 to 6 week intervals . |
| 28 | ‘ 6-month-old children ’ were eligible if they were between 24 and 30 weeks of age and had been immunised with OPV as above . |
| 29 | Sinn Fein were contesting the seat and a tricolour , the flag of the Irish Republic , was flown in the window of the Sinn Fein election office in Divis St. Although the Flags and Emblems Act made such displays illegal , the RUC had often ignored them if they were in nationalist areas . |
| 30 | Many salespeople who , to an outsider , seem naturally quick-witted have developed this skill through careful preparation beforehand , imagining themselves as buyers and thinking of objections that they might raise if they were in such a position . |