Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You couldn ’ even prophesy your own death , when it wuz standin' right in front of you . |
| 2 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 3 | But nevertheless if it were handled properly the high-yielding seeds of African maize , upland rice and cassava which are on the way could make a real difference . |
| 4 | Kurunagala and parts of the districts bordering it were singled out as suffering from an inordinate amount of cattle theft . |
| 5 | Each £250 or part of £250 will be treated as if it were bringing in an income of £1 a week . |
| 6 | And the tall tree arched over at the top in a graceful curve like a shepherd 's crook , as if it were looking down to admire itself . |
| 7 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 8 | I felt the screws who did n't belong to this clique and did n't subscribe to it were given almost as hard a time by them as the inmates . |
| 9 | For soldiers , if it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . |
| 10 | ‘ If it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . ’ |
| 11 | But if it were to go up and up and up the blood would become absolutely saturated with sugar which would do us no good at all . |
| 12 | Anglican chant is a distinctive way of singing the Psalms and it would be a pity if it were lost altogether in the parishes . |
| 13 | Would Love Story have a different ending if it were written today ? |
| 14 | Even such a perfect match would count for little if the fish had to wave its fins in order to maintain its position in the water , or if it were to move independently from the weed . |
| 15 | If it were to do so , the very existence of the currency union would be placed in jeopardy . |
| 16 | There , from January 1801 onwards , correspondence covering the years since 1780 was systematically assembled from the State Paper Office and elsewhere and taken to the foreign office — an obvious response to the need frequently to refer to it in the conduct of daily business and the resulting inconvenience if it were stored anywhere else . |
| 17 | To what extent do you think that the creation of , of all these as it were structures on |
| 18 | As will be seen , literature and the discipline which was based upon it were seen primarily as a means of transmitting personalities , on the model of the Dictionary of National Biography . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Faculty of Homoeopathy would certainly concur with Simon Crawford 's view that it is absolutely unethical for any medicine to be sold as natural and especially as homoeopathic if it were to include pharmacologically active ingredients , whether hormonal or otherwise . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Philippines government had previously agreed to allow the return of the late President 's body if it were flown directly to his home province of Ilocos Norte and buried within nine days . |
| 23 | and it were gone about seven or eight weeks and when he heard nowt about it |
| 24 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 25 | SHOTESHAM IS unaltered ; it is as though it were built yesterday . |
| 26 | His body ached all over and the wounded arm felt as if it were dropping off . |
| 27 | ‘ And if it were placed there later — say at three o'clock ? ’ |
| 28 | It was therefore natural to test the phonograph as if it were taking down shorthand . |
| 29 | and pulled myself over the gutter , it were alright getting up , it were getting back in |
| 30 | Yeah it 's about time it were shaken up now that Labour Party er this government er , erm they 're agreeing to this , this has to be done and that has to be done you put notices up on buses all over Britain no smoking in the buses , now in the big restaurants they 're going to have to between now and July put notices up , no smoking in restaurants |