Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 2 | Her awareness of the hard body at her back was unbearably acute , and a shivering sigh shook her , but she did n't know if it was governed by despair or surrender . |
| 3 | I do n't know if it was pressed or not , hello |
| 4 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 5 | Yes well at the end of the the the er service or anniversary , whatever , I do n't know if it was called a service or not . |
| 6 | Figure 9c shows the space which the same algorithm would explore if it were given the backwards version of the task . |
| 7 | I 'll never know whether it was to sharpen their teeth or whether they liked the taste of lead . |
| 8 | We do not even know whether it was deposited in that great Ptolemaic foundation , the library of Alexandria . |
| 9 | I bet he could n't know whether it was gon na be good or but I bought it . |
| 10 | This would be mainframe-driven with suitable terminals in all branches , and the person responsible for any information item would ensure that it was copied to the master file for other parties with the necessary authority to access . |
| 11 | In purely military terms , the army could feel that it was meeting the challenge in 1957 and early 1958 . |
| 12 | We would n't still be doing it if we did n't feel that it was creating enough profit in the meantime , and looked like it could create more as it went along . ’ |
| 13 | Aylwin , however , stated that he did not wish to accept such an offer , nor did he feel that it was justified , given that he had agreed to be elected for a four-year period and that to alter the term of office ( by amending the Constitution ) " would be to change the rules of play of our democratic co-existence " . |
| 14 | I just did n't feel that it was justified , adding notes like that to the file when she could barely uncover all the relevant facts . ’ |
| 15 | Can I assume that it was cleared through the Cabinet Office ? |
| 16 | The issue has not been discussed with me during my time as Secretary of State at any conference under the Anglo-Irish Agreement , and I am perfectly clear about what response I would give if it were raised . |
| 17 | They say they 're only doing what the local council would do if it was allowed . |
| 18 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 19 | Each Dobson unit is a hundredth of a millimetre and refers to the thickness of the stratospheric ozone layer that would result if it were brought to sea level pressure and temperature . |
| 20 | Yeah it would n't would n't matter if it was cut slightly off square either would it . |
| 21 | But what did this child do while it was going on ? |
| 22 | It does n't matter when it was made , or that it 's in flickery old black and white . |
| 23 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 24 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 25 | Afterwards , he could always claim that it was sent to an old or wrong address by mistake , or that it must have got lost in the post . |
| 26 | Following municipal law agency principles a third party could claim that it was bound with respect to the protectorate provided the agent had acted within the scope of its express , implied , or apparent authority . |
| 27 | I used to view the European Community as being an economic and political bloc confronting the East and COMECON , and that is why I did not believe that it was uniting Europe . |
| 28 | The reference to ‘ the application in the prescribed manner ’ makes me believe that it was contemplated that some form of summary process would be prescribed in order to enable speedy relief to be given in clear cases . |
| 29 | He could not believe that it was wavering now . |
| 30 | She did not believe that it was going to change the world or that every minute detail was worth the drama and emotionalism that the others seemed to want to pour into it . |