Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 2 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 3 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 4 | and pulled myself over the gutter , it were alright getting up , it were getting back in |
| 5 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 6 | It was clean , even the wheels were clean , as if it were put out on a drive on Sundays and given the old once-over like the family car . |
| 7 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 8 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 9 | Iran has made it plain that it would take it amiss if it were left out of any post-war security arrangements for the Gulf — but even more amiss if outsiders ( read Americans ) were to stay on . |
| 10 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They may , for example , be an adjunct to the use of Taylorism , where fragmented work leads t o the use of particular types of organisation structure , whereas co-ordination of the same overall task , if it were carried out by craft workers on an integrated basis , might be carried out by means of a much simpler organisation structure . |
| 13 | She did not specify , even to herself , the harm that might come to Alice , but it was bound up with love , with loving a man . |
| 14 | It was farmed out to Broadway people to put together , and cost an enormous amount of money . |
| 15 | It was getting on towards moonset when they left the fields and entered the wood . |
| 16 | It was getting on towards 5 am and that left her only two hours before her husband got up . |
| 17 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 18 | Now it was getting on for five o'clock . |
| 19 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 20 | It was getting on for 5 o'clock and the village were batting . |
| 21 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 22 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 23 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 24 | It was getting on for Tony-Coton-at-Man-City-last-august standards . |
| 25 | Soon she was completely absorbed , and when she finally straightened and looked at her watch she was staggered to find it was getting on for six o'clock . |
| 26 | By then it was getting on for lunchtime but , sauntering through the colonnade , she could n't resist first climbing a flight of stairs to take a look at some of the splendid Bohemian glassware on display . |
| 27 | ‘ I forgot the hour , ’ he added , and when Fabia , glancing at her watch , saw that , incredibly , it was getting on for three , she realised that when Ven was working it must be that he did n't give thought to food . |
| 28 | It was getting through to the readers on a human level that counted . |
| 29 | So I thought I 'd put in for that , it was a lateral move you know , but still it was getting back to my depot and nearer my home . |
| 30 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |