Example sentences of "were to [be] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If prostitution were to be stopped they would have to work on the rice fields on a starvation salary . ’ |
| 2 | A question asked early in the interview may affect answers to subsequent questions , and if this order were to be altered it becomes difficult to detect the effect this might have on the replies . |
| 3 | French women were chic , well groomed , and if all the magazines were to be believed they were almost invariably beautiful . |
| 4 | No , it did n't form part of it and erm if it were to be done it would be having , shall we say , a political impact , but the sums are of such a nature that they are of no significance in the context of the budget as a whole . |
| 5 | Peasants were to be given their household plots , but had to pay for them . |
| 6 | Boys were to be taught their knightly duty to serve their mothers and sisters . |
| 7 | If I were to be denied my belief in the almost limitless potential of my students , I 'd give up . |
| 8 | That study clearly demonstrated that there were no proven benefits for consumers and that if such benefits were to be achieved they must be written into legislation . |
| 9 | It is not disputed by any member of the European Community that if that part of the directive were to be implemented everybody would have to pay for the associated benefits . |
| 10 | In balance NACAB concluded that if the Green Form proposals were to be implemented it would be the single biggest input of resources into the advice sector ever . |
| 11 | Yet for deaf people the isolation could well be more serious in integrated environments if such a policy change were to be effected which allowed this alignment . |
| 12 | If solutions were to be found they would be of a technological nature . |
| 13 | For the nineteen of us who were to be awarded our white képis , there was the certainty of a place with one of the Foreign Legion 's Regiments , and the satisfaction of having made it this far through basic training . |
| 14 | Members of the community were to be permitted their own opinions in matters of politics and religion , but property would be held in common . |
| 15 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 16 | If a single factory-wide overhead absorption rate were to be used it is likely that product costs will be distorted because the application of overheads to products i6 not a fair reflection of the costs incurred in manufacturing the product . |
| 17 | The eleventh paragraph recommended that the buildings should be laid out according to a plan , and the ‘ very able and magnificent block plan , by M. Crepinet , may furnish valuable hints towards preserving the desired unity ’ , and the twelfth paragraph said that a residence for the Foreign Secretary was not an absolute necessity , and if reception rooms were to be provided they should be available to every minister . |
| 18 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 19 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 20 | She had not decided whether or not to tell Dick , but if he were to be told it would be by her , not by the Longhills . |