Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , because there are only a very few , small sites available for redevelopment , new investors would be pushing out present occupiers if the development were to be economically viable . |
| 2 | In November 1989 the Estonian Supreme Soviet declared the republic to be " sovereign " , and USSR Supreme Soviet laws were to be effectively subject to approval by the Estonian Supreme Soviet [ see p. 36486 ] . |
| 3 | She needed a plan of action , she decided as she began the task of stripping several layers of wallpaper from the walls — a concerted campaign to protect the club , and if she were to be painfully honest , herself , from the marauding hands of the so-called Midnight Raider . |
| 4 | As with the Merseyside Task Force , they were to be primarily concerned with project development and not with issues of strategy . |
| 5 | Among all the books which have survived — and nearly seventy have now been identified — there is not a single volume of the basic works of Patristic theology or of recent scholastic learning , which ( as we have seen ) were conspicuous in the library at Bec , and were to be equally conspicuous at Canterbury after Lanfranc had restored the library . |
| 6 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 7 | If we were to be totally cynical , we would say it lets Darlington MP Michael Fallon off a nasty hook . |
| 8 | If these post-war years were to be so crucial to the formation of the post-war employment structure , economic dislocation provided an atmosphere in which self-preservation was an understandable objective . |
| 9 | By 1802 John Wayland — a member of a famous Frome family , some of whom were to be very eminent in Baptist circles in America — was the new owner , and rates on it cost him 4d. ; lucky old Mrs. Muir , then , who had taken over by 1804 , and was only charged half the price … |
| 10 | Most western European governments decided to hang on to the state monopoly in telecommunications networks ; their deregulatory ventures were to be very modest indeed — for example in allowing greater flexibility in renting or buying telephone handsets and other terminal equipment . |
| 11 | From that time the influences were to be more European than English or colonial . |
| 12 | But Kokoschka and Kraus were to be more comfortable in Berlin , and Loos 's principles were only to be realized on a major scale by the Bauhaus architects . |
| 13 | The structure plans then provided a framework for local plans , which were to be more detailed strategies prepared at district level . |
| 14 | Their methods were to be essentially agitational — employing lectures , insertions in the daily press , travelling agitators in foreign parts and a campaign of publishing . |
| 15 | Its objectives were to be quite ambitious : to vet proposed national legislation and to submit proposals for new legislation in such a way that conformity of objective and practice would be achieved , and also to ensure a coordinated joint Nordic view at international conferences . |
| 16 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 17 | The spokesman for the organizing committee was one Dr Harrison Rogers , who explained that like the more orthodox Olympic movement , the new games were to be truly international in flavour . |
| 18 | A widely subscribed single premium life insurance policy ( known as the prima unica ) was suspended because most of the money invested had never been taxed ; insurers were to be legally obliged to disclose the names of policy holders , and primas unicas would in future be subject to withholding taxes . |
| 19 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 20 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 21 | Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge . |
| 22 | But obviously it must be necessary to waive the statutory sectors , versus the non statutory , so it is n't er possible this year , perhaps to put in as we might do if were to be as imprudent as the opposition parties . |
| 23 | Managers and proprietors soon realized that if halls were to be half full they might as well be totally full and so every ingenious method was used to maximize attendance . |
| 24 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |
| 25 | But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship , they were to be quickly disillusioned . |
| 26 | It would be much more sensible if , as a staff writer in Ekonomska politika ( 15 February 1988 ) has suggested , the minimum point for assessing personal income tax were to be brought down to approximately the average income of each republic or province , and the scale of progressivity were to be less steep . |
| 27 | And I do n't know , certainly the shift I was with were very loyal , always turned up and you know we ne we never had any problems . |
| 28 | I was signed to RCA at the time , and the music I was into was really hard dance music . |
| 29 | The last branch I was in was very small , and I got a lot of feedback from them . |
| 30 | It is important to note what the purpose of the definition was before being too critical of the notion that legal problems can be objectively defined by reference to specific situations . |