Example sentences of "if there [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7.5 shows how the intensity should vary with frequency for gamma rays given off by primordial black holes , if there were on average 300 per cubic light-year . |
| 2 | If there were to be a programme of comparable generosity to the new democracies , it would be necessary to reduce some category of expenditure within the industrial countries . |
| 3 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 4 | He had only been a stop-gap , to fill in after Father Collins 's long , thirty-five-year ministry and the appointment of a permanent successor , if there were to be a successor . |
| 5 | If there were to be a failure in maintaining this conquest , the ‘ livelihood ’ of these people would be at stake . |
| 6 | If there were to be an image of a woman in that book , that one picture would stand out as the exception . |
| 7 | If there were to be nightmares , she could not control that ; but she would not waste her waking time frightening herself with a terror which was past . |
| 8 | If there were to be a reduction in the mark-up , then this would further reinforce the effect . |
| 9 | immediately if there were to be such a disaster as a Labour Government . |
| 10 | That is as absurd as if there were to be competition locally between environmental health officers or , nationally , if British Telecom and Mercury were to pick and pay for their own regulators . |
| 11 | If there were to be a Labour Government or the unlikely event of a Liberal Democrat Government , it would be open house for local authorities to spend and spend , just like Viv Nicholson . |
| 12 | Er if there were to be an exceptions policy the suggestion has been made that certain districts perhaps could be identified er as being a suitable location . |
| 13 | And , if there were times those qualities seemed exaggerated , she understood . |
| 14 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 15 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 16 | If there was to be an escape , it was to lie not in the ‘ damp gust bringing rain ’ but in ‘ Shantih ’ as the Buddhist 's passing beyond the cycles of creation . |
| 17 | If there was to be any relationship , she wanted to see his head on the pillow most mornings . |
| 18 | If there was to be selection then some would inevitably be selected out of the grammar school class . |
| 19 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 20 | After this , if there was to be an after , how could she live knowing what he might be up to , and the tight corners he could be getting into . |
| 21 | If there was to be a severe winter , George hoped that he would see the warning signs early enough to anticipate it . |
| 22 | Among those who voted against it were some closeted gays : if there was to be a purge , they did not wish to be among the victims . |
| 23 | If there was to be no viewing of the remains , the coffin was at once covered with plain or waxed cambric , glued and gimped into place . |
| 24 | Then she buried her head in the pillow and the tears came and came , flowing out of her as if there was to be no end to them , ever . |
| 25 | We had about two months to prepare for the seven of them ; a period useful not only for the co-ordinating of the PR assault but also , I believe , a safety gap , a firebreak , a time in which the military could take stock , an interval in which Goreng could see if there was to be a resurgence of the lost FAKINTIL in the hills . |
| 26 | Well I would have thought that if there was to be some assessment of a reasonable expectation of development proceeding , then there ought to be some assessment of demand , and I have n't seen that yet . |
| 27 | Now it would maybe not be appropriate if there was to be an alternative government bill that would deal with these type of matters er in front of us and please to say that when I read out the list of sponsors , it 'll be shown there are people from all parties , or all parties in Britain in this house , who are true democrats . |
| 28 | Erm if there was to be an exceptions policy er I would n't like Scarborough to be excluded from it . |
| 29 | If there was in fact any such material discrepancy or inconsistency it would have been the duty of counsel for the Crown to inform the defence of the fact , and indeed the learned trial judge expressly referred to Crown counsel 's duty in this respect . |
| 30 | If there was in operation a good system to prevent alien matter entering the lemonade then someone who worked there must have been very negligent if alien matter got in despite the system . |