Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , Childeric 's grave was apparently forgotten about ; the horse burials which surrounded it were already cut into in the sixth century by secondary inhumations . |
| 2 | Instead , the logical policy is to tax consumption , at a rate which reflects not the disposal cost of a good but the costs which would be inflicted on society if it were illegally dumped . |
| 3 | If a Canterbury visit did occur in 1018 it may have been while Cnut and his men were waiting for the £82,500 to be handed over , as the bulk of those who received it were doubtless based in and around London . |
| 4 | But if on the other hand the curtilage were particularly large , erm then er it it were otherwise unbuilt er it would not of necessity form part of the built area of the settlement , if the situation were on the periphery . |
| 5 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might , even more implausibly , say : ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 6 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience other people 's pain , he might say , ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 7 | Faulty learning occurs because the first instances of it were inappropriately reinforced by the parents or other caretakers of the child . |
| 8 | is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which would if it were generally known to them be likely to materially affect the price of those securities . |
| 9 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 10 | Both the practice and the tensions associated with it were meticulously described by the American anthropologists Arensberg and Kimball . |
| 11 | I hear what you say , and I hesitate to make any further comment on that , given the current climate , but let's set about just examining the shape of the difficulty at the moment , and see what we can as it were immediately deal with ourselves , and what we can try and persuade other people to help us to know . |
| 12 | The Alexander technique would be invaluable if it were properly included in all drama training programmes . |
| 13 | If it were tastefully done , I do not see that anyone could object . |
| 14 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 15 | I did n't turn it on there , it were n't turned on at all . |
| 16 | Er , it were n't locked up again though were it ? |
| 17 | ‘ It were n't made to open easily . ’ |
| 18 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 19 | that it was only er a face up , it were n't to pull down and rebuild |
| 20 | ‘ We are , ’ he insisted , his grip on her wrist tightening , ‘ and I wish that it were n't happening — ’ |
| 21 | I repeat , I wish it were n't happening . |
| 22 | Some cat was climbing through a window and it were n't going . |
| 23 | It were n't running today . |
| 24 | Everybody knew it , they knew it too , but if it were n't told , it could lose its power to injure . |
| 25 | And i , it were just to show his authority , you know . |
| 26 | And copies of it were also served on Winchester by fax on 31 October 1990 . |
| 27 | And there is a sense in which this applies , but although I can appreciate his point that seeking a good reputation may well dominate the practical order , if it were also to dominate the activities I have designated ‘ second-order ’ then it makes nonsense of the possibility of ‘ disinterestedness ’ , enjoying something for its own sake . |
| 28 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 29 | He said Bonn was favourably disposed to such a conference if it were well prepared . |
| 30 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |