Example sentences of "a [noun sg] were to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such a measure were to be carried ( and a similar one is likely to be introduced in the Senate ) , Mr Bush could use force only at the risk of a domestic , and indeed a constitutional , crisis . |
| 2 | If a movie were to be made of her American tour , one would see pages fly from calendars , clock hands spin and headlines slapped one on top of the next . |
| 3 | And even if a break were to be found , the five naos and the 277 men would have to sail — how far ? |
| 4 | New rules and a programme were to be approved at the Komsomol 's 22nd congress scheduled for early 1990 . |
| 5 | As the intention was that items for a test were to be selected to fit the model , it was important to be able to test this model . |
| 6 | First , responsibilities for care for the chronically handicapped in a community were to be given to those elected by the local population ; thus the electorate would , in theory , have greater control over the way local services are provided . |
| 7 | If such a strategy were to be an effective one — and the jury is still out , although it seems a promising idea — then reintegrative shaming would be a valuable method of reforming offenders , which ( as we have said ) is a valid reductivist aim to be pursued within a morally defensible penal system . |
| 8 | ‘ If a cause were to be rendered of natural appearances in special as what are the motions and influences of the heavenly bodies and of their parts , the reason hereof must either be drawn from the parts of the sciences above mentioned , or no reason at all will be given , but all left to uncertain conjecture . ’ |
| 9 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 10 | If a patent were to be granted , such prior use is a defence to an infringement action , by section 64 , and could also invalidate the patent if challenged unless such use had not made the invention available to the public . |
| 11 | Fees of two guineas a year were to be charged in the Upper ( books and stationery extra ) ; the Lower was still free . |
| 12 | It was there that the scenes of Dustin as a centenarian were to be filmed . |