Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 2 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 3 | If it were up to me , I 'd jock you off for the rest of the season . |
| 4 | ‘ How do you mean ‘ if it were up to me ’ ? ’ |
| 5 | And if it were up to me , I 'd just want to talk about music , about a certain passage of Mozart and how I would place the emphasis at certain points , and how I feel I 'm a good interpreter at the piano , but not particularly a good technician … ‘ |
| 6 | ‘ I wish it were not to be lost to you . ’ |
| 7 | This decision , if it were not to be entirely arbitrary , would presumably be based upon considerations of style or general policy . |
| 8 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 9 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 10 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 11 | It was clearly to France 's advantage to advance her south-eastern frontier by the acquisition of Savoy and Nice , while the building of railways in the region would give her a strong economic and strategic position in northern and central Italy . |
| 12 | But it was clearly to any one firm 's advantage if somewhere was elsewhere . |
| 13 | Conversely , it was theoretically to the advantage of the French kings to have the Plantagenets as feudal inferiors , rather than to expel them from their remaining continental possessions . |
| 14 | door so that it was around to there . |
| 15 | It was evidently to be a very reserved one . |
| 16 | He had hoped there would be time for a quick cup of tea but it was n't to be . |
| 17 | And something about his voice made Philip think perhaps it was n't to be a parrot after all . |
| 18 | But it was n't to be : he knocked the putt by about 3 feet and then pulled the one coming back wide and finished up shooting a 63 . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it was n't to be . |
| 20 | But , as everybody knows , it was n't to be . |
| 21 | ‘ Have a nice stay , ’ said the customs official , but it was n't to her . |
| 22 | Now I knew that it was n't to be said . |
| 23 | But it was n't to be and as a result we now have fewer engineers and probably fewer skilled people in industry than ever before : crumbly foundations to build upon if it is going to be built along the old traditional lines . |
| 24 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 25 | In the event , it was n't to be . |
| 26 | It was n't to be expected , ’ the Bishop said bitterly . |
| 27 | It was n't to be . |
| 28 | But it was n't to be the for the friendship with Tiny that my father got to have the rattling good supper that that they provided in in in the servants room . |
| 29 | But it was n't to be and within a minute Stoke were level . |
| 30 | But unfortunately it was n't it was n't to be . |