Example sentences of "[adj] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 2 | 1.15:IF this were over hurdles , Dawson City would have lumps in hand . |
| 3 | It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot . |
| 4 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 5 | The only national figures quoted on this were for 1939–40 but these showed 48% and 24% respectively . |
| 6 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large . |
| 8 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 9 | However , evidence suggests that non-business travel is also important and can cover 67 per cent of all movement ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) ; if this were to be substantially reduced by remote linkages by telephone or other means , the consequences for continued viability of still more rural public transport routes could be serious , especially where comparatively minor variations in demand can be critical . |
| 10 | If this were to be so , it would make a mockery of the caution and the concept of the right to silence after a charge has been preferred . |
| 11 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 12 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 13 | No decisions would ever be made if this were to be demanded . |
| 14 | If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel . |
| 15 | If this were to be the position when goods perish after the risk has passed to the buyer , it would be a contradiction in terms . |
| 16 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 17 | " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " . |
| 18 | She 'd be wise to push him out of her mind — if this were at all possible — and before she made a complete idiot of herself . |
| 19 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 20 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 21 | This were in a school playground . |
| 22 | Informed sources in the Caribbean thought it likely that the political maneouvrings behind all this were by way of a reprisal for a report by Lord Avebury criticizing Forbes Burnham 's ruling party for election-rigging . |
| 23 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 24 | That said , he barely engaged with the details of the argument , dismissing the very notion of the lists as if this were beneath consideration . |
| 25 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 26 | It would not be long before the English were at Dunbar , now that Southern Scotland lay wide open to their advance . |
| 27 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 28 | After this , Pound 's relations with England and the English were for the most part an aspect of his relations with that one of his erstwhile protégés who had become , surprisingly , a pillar of the English establishment — Eliot , editor of the Criterion . |
| 29 | It is clear from the Chronicle account that the English were by now in considerable disarray and incapable of offering serious resistance , so it is hardly surprising that when Swegen arrived with his son Cnut and a further army in 1013 the whole nation submitted to him , and Æthelred went into exile with his brother-in-law , Duke Richard II of Normandy . |
| 30 | The English were in danger of becoming a nation dominated by dullness and decorous solemnity . |