Example sentences of "[det] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if this were so , the implication has been made by catholic school supporters that catholic schools have not promoted or reinforced any measure of prejudice , and that no other possible type of school could improve on them ( Daly 1975 ) . |
| 2 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 3 | If this were true , then it is hard to see how impairments in face processing could be explained so economically in terms of the cognitive modules that functional models contain . |
| 4 | It is well established that any Palestinian delegates must be acceptable to all parties : if this were not already the case , the Palestinian delegation would be made up of PLO members . |
| 5 | As though this were not enough , a gang of Ugandan footpads then raided the homes of the newly-arrived British police training mission and made off with their video machines — plus their training tapes for the local police on how to prevent burglaries . |
| 6 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 7 | If this were true of him , and if the animal stamina demanded of a Secretary of State were so great , did n't that disqualify good men who lacked only that stamina ? |
| 8 | As one reflection of this , telephone calls about matters like this were occasionally terminated by the slamming down of the receiver , followed by the defiant expletives of ‘ old bag ’ , ‘ old cow ’ , or ‘ bastard ’ , which Manning 's ethnography shows is a common closing remark among disgruntled policemen ( 1977 , p. xiv ) . |
| 9 | What the older Michael mostly remembered about this were the games — croquet in which the parents joined the children , tennis , a sort of squash with his brother hitting a tennis ball against a veranda wall , expeditions up the river through the Backs and then up to the village of Grantchester . |
| 10 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 11 | Australia , New Zealand , and South Africa supported inter-nationalization with US involvement , but if this were not possible , they preferred a Commonwealth or European arrangement . |
| 12 | The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich , analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a ‘ defence of the familiar ’ , argues that if this were central to Conservatism ‘ we should have a mystery on our hands , the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition ’ . |
| 13 | as if this were adequate to underwrite a claim for the avant-garde 's loss of critical virtue . |
| 14 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 15 | as if this were not enough we have to avoid livestock , standing crops and a myriad of other obstacles . |
| 16 | as if all this were n't reason enough , there 's always the environment . |
| 17 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 18 | If this were to inhibit credit expansion it could lead to lower interest rates . |
| 19 | Even if any of this were serious , there is no evidence that Mr Gorbachev has felt any pressing need , at least until now , to intervene militarily in Romania . |
| 20 | as if all this were not enough , schools have started managing their own financial affairs . |
| 21 | Even if this were politically possible , which it is not , petrol taxes punish the rural lunch-time driver at the same rate as the urban peak-time driver , when the latter causes far more harm . |
| 22 | Informed sources in the Caribbean thought it likely that the political maneouvrings behind all this were by way of a reprisal for a report by Lord Avebury criticizing Forbes Burnham 's ruling party for election-rigging . |
| 23 | The shops were mostly dreary Woolworth-type places , and they were all shut , but there was a surprising number of people wandering around , as if this were some kind of marvellous place to take an evening stroll . |
| 24 | First to take advantage of this were Les Nouveaux , who , because of Jane 's foolish undercharging , had plenty of money left to transform themselves overnight into Horsey People . |
| 25 | And as for defence , ’ he went on , ‘ Britain would be defended by arms manufactured in Germany or France just as well as by arms manufactured in Britain , if this were necessary for good economic reasons . ’ |
| 26 | The mathematical techniques for doing this were invented fairly recently , and , unlike most of those we have so far mentioned , were developed from scratch to solve a particular archaeological problem . |
| 27 | If this were the case , most people , whose call is to marriage , would be able to pick up one message and one message only from celibates . |
| 28 | If this were a list of localities where an industrial plant unleashed disaster on the folks next door , that would be bad enough . |
| 29 | If this were the case it would explain why they had not held meetings on this occasion . |
| 30 | I resolved to cling to my Soviet Friends , as if this were Moscow or Leningrad ; my rusty Russian soon became relatively fluent again , helped by alcohol . |