Example sentences of "if [pron] were [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 2 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 3 | You would too , if you were learning to be a DJ , or perhaps being coached in your favourite sport ! |
| 4 | As Patrick Forbes put it in Champagne , ‘ The news of his appointment was received with a certain relief by most people , for , if you were going to be shoved around , it was better to be shoved around by a wine-maker than by some beer-drinking Nazi lout . ’ |
| 5 | The same if you were thinking of murdering this person and you knew that you could be traced you 'd bloody think twice if you were gon na be hanged or chaired . |
| 6 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 7 | In the mid eighties we decided that if we were going to be one of the super unions , we had to be amalgamation-friendly . |
| 8 | after that , and then this , the fans must have wondered if they were destined to be watching a nil-nil draw . |
| 9 | This period around 1967 was the time of the big change-over in the airline business from piston engines to jets , so it was clear that the programme I had selfishly pursued for my own good was in fact a proper course to follow for all Ops inspectors if they were to continue to be able to do their work effectively . |
| 10 | The New York Times of Nov. 19 reported that the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps had recently issued a new ruling requiring all its graduates to sign an affidavit saying that they were liable to be discharged and forced to pay back their scholarship if they were discovered to be homosexual . |
| 11 | They might get at least some credit if they were seen to be laying better long-term foundations for the economy . |
| 12 | In a recent report , the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution concluded that potatoes , for example , might become troublesome weeds if they were engineered to be tolerant of frosts , blight and herbicides . |
| 13 | But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller . |
| 14 | It 's not as if they were going to be chucked out . |
| 15 | What was the point if they were going to be allowed to drive back to England ? ’ |
| 16 | Machine code instructions are assembled as if they were going to be placed in memory at the addresses specified by the program counter , P% . |
| 17 | Almost as if they were going to be posted . |
| 18 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 19 | Well , when Wyn had his stethoscope in his ears I wondered if they were meant to be him . |
| 20 | The ruling effectively voided the British legal notion of the " discretionary " life sentence , under which the Home Office had the power to extend prisoners ' actual terms in gaol , or detain them again after an initial release ( known as " release under licence " ) if they were deemed to be a danger to society . |
| 21 | Agency findings could be set aside if they were found to be ‘ arbitrary , capricious or an abuse of discretion . ’ |
| 22 | Many problems which we are prepared to treat as bipolar have ramifications which could be taken into account if they were thought to be as important as the impact of the decision on the two contestants . |
| 23 | Such contributions are not in themselves illegal , but they would be if they were judged to be bribes . |
| 24 | Kenya 's tranquillity could vanish if it were shown to be involved : the killing prompted the first of last year 's riots . |
| 25 | All these transactions were secret , for there would be little use in keeping a paper alive if it were known to be owned by a political party . |
| 26 | If it were thought to be worth estimating then a design involving more blocks and partial confounding would have to be used . |
| 27 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 28 | It would certainly damage the apostle 's prophecy of future judgment of the world by God if he were found to be making reference to events which were only myth and legend . |
| 29 | But now , the soft clicks coming with typical irregularity , he listened to them painfully and let his mind slide back ten years to what he must remember , to the truth he must recall if he were going to be able to tell lies . |