Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you intend them as a short-term loan , retrievable when your contract with Sarella was over , or was it more in the line of outright theft ? |
| 2 | " The boy ; they were n't there when we went in nor were they around on the two occasions I checked the street , not were they there when I accompanied the doctor to the cab . " |
| 3 | He also held , dubiously , that were it not for the corruptions imposed by state and law , men would develop bonds of instinctive solidarity which would make government unnecessary . |
| 4 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 5 | It is our understanding that were it not for the contact that was made by the state lottery with Scientific Games , that they would be a bidder , the Scientific Games system is a good system . |
| 6 | It is strange to consider that were it not for the intervention of Conservative industrialists , the proposals in this Bill could have been far worse . |
| 7 | It should be pointed out , though , that were it not for the attacks through evolutionary time of these herbivores , there would be none of the commercially significant heartwoods , latexes and resins so useful to humans . |
| 8 | Nor was there much in the way of a social structure . |
| 9 | Nor was it only on the great party issues of the day that Whig–Tory divisions emerged in the House ; the same was true even on more mundane matters , where no great issue of party principle was at stake . |
| 10 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 11 | Some forms ( Turrilites ) adopted the helical spire , and were it not for the obligatory suture lines it might be possible to mistake these species for large gastropods . |
| 12 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 13 | No mean problem , this , in a time largely deafened to such sober music , and were it not for the incomparable examples of Spenser and Milton , he might finally have despaired ; but what they in their day had achieved for their grave themes ought ( he had long believed ) to be possible for the richer store of myth and symbol at his disposal ; and now the lines had begun to move with the majesty he desired . |
| 14 | In this fieldworker 's experience , boundaries between parishes are frequently very unimpressive , often no different to general field boundaries in the vicinity , and were it not for the fact that the boundary line is known , the field evidence would in many cases not suggest it . |
| 15 | But were it not for the perceived economic might of a more unified Economic Community , the dozen or so nations of the Pacific Rim , who have been meeting in Australia , might not have bothered . |
| 16 | She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper . |