Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mankind must abandon all belief that the unknown power which created the universe , if it were created within the meaning of that word as generally understood , is to be identified as the ‘ god ’ that must be worshipped . |
| 2 | on to floor and it runs , it just , it ran down into corner , there 's a a wheel , thing , and the cheek well it 's a a pulley wheel , and it , it were looking round the big handle at pulley wheel at me . |
| 3 | Place the cone or ball on the floor beside you and hold the yarn above the carriage , in the position it would be in if it were threaded through the yarn mast . |
| 4 | Such action , even if it were resented by the governments , would be hailed with joy by the populations … . |
| 5 | It is hoped that this stems from the fact that the zonal code given per letter by the recogniser is not as accurate as some overall shape information would be , if it were obtained from the x , y coordinates of the script . |
| 6 | If it were joined with the Legislative Power , the power over the life and liberty of citizens would be arbitrary , because the Judge would be Legislator . |
| 7 | If it were joined to the Executive Power , the Judge would have the strength of an oppressor . |
| 8 | Taking over responsibility for Britain 's nuclear deterrent from the RAF would be attractive only if funds allocated for it were transferred from the Air vote ; or |
| 9 | If it were to continue throughout the decade the structure of the game could change significantly , by forcing counties to employ only a small force of top-class full-time professionals supplemented with part timers and the many amateur cricketers thrown up in the recreational game . |
| 10 | And Leonard 's interests in it were moving from the amateur to the professional . |
| 11 | In The Rape of Lucrece Tarquin , unable to restrain his lust , and as it were possessed by the spirit of the boar , violates the chaste Lucrece , a devotee of the goddess in her virgin mode as Diana . |
| 12 | Whilst recognising the central role of managers in providing counselling in these circumstances , consideration should be given , in exceptional cases , to whether this form of support would be delivered more effectively if it were separated from the normal manager/employee relationship . |
| 13 | when it were made like the sawdust , some of that had got on our |
| 14 | Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties . |
| 15 | It were beginning of the year since that bike cos February March sold it . |
| 16 | Anyway erm so erm you sometimes also find with family situations , let's suppose in some situations you have some you have a daughter in the household who 's being abused by say the father or step-father , maybe if there 's a brother once he gets old enough to start becoming interested in sex , in some cases , although he 's round about the same age as his sister , can be um as it were inducted into the into the cycle of abuse erm can actually start participating when the dynamic 's already there . |
| 17 | So that in my judgment that regulation can be referred to because it is embodied in the Act itself and , having a quasi-parliamentary validity , is a good indication of the wishes of the legislature , just as much as if it were enacted in the Act itself . |
| 18 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |
| 19 | ‘ The bastards who planted it were hiding in the trees , so Donald did n't see them and could n't have expected what was about to happen . |
| 20 | The magnification tells you how much larger an object looks that if it were viewed with the naked eye . |
| 21 | Would we accept this if it were proposed as the means by which we controlled , say , the operations of our secret services . |
| 22 | The supple gold of her swimsuit felt as if it were melting under the heat generating between them . |
| 23 | But what has been said so far , that the flipping and the circumstance including it were required for the wipers ' starting to work , is consistent with the cause existing without that effect . |
| 24 | There have been commentators who have said that if it were introduced , it would be much more effective if it were introduced throughout the island . |
| 25 | If this can be established as an objective truth , then this would indeed make a correctionalist approach misguided — although only if it were committed to the total elimination of deviance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the fifteenth century London remained under merchant rule : all but 6 of the 88 men who were mayor during it were drawn from the 6 greatest companies , the mercers , grocers , drapers , fishmongers , goldsmiths and skinners . |
| 28 | George Wade then took over the studio of Sir J. Edgar Boehm [ q.v. ] and in 1891 his bust of I. J. Paderewski was so appreciated that 500 reproductions of it were ordered for the American market alone . |
| 29 | ‘ If it were sold at the price it needs to be to make a profit it would be a collector 's item , ’ says Peter Osborne , Marlow 's sales and marketing director . |
| 30 | His attempts to reform it were guided by the insights of close collaborators from within the educational system , in particular William Brockington , Chief Education Officer of Leicestershire , and Lady Simon , of the Manchester Education Committee . |