Example sentences of "if [pron] [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I were in real distress , and I was told , Mary , that you pitied me , it would n't cheer me up at all . |
| 2 | If one wants to be accepted as a mainstream , serious film-maker it does n't strike me , if I were in that position , as a shrewd career move . |
| 3 | One of my boyfriends said that it 's as if I was from another planet . |
| 4 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 5 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 6 | But if I was in better shape , I 'd be sitting up there . |
| 7 | You did n't care if I was in any danger , just so long as I was suitably humbled ! ’ |
| 8 | And even if I was in some way trying to do this , I certainly did n't succeed . |
| 9 | If she were of full age her ability to consent would have two separate effects . |
| 10 | Abruptly she felt as if she were on some kind of mental treadmill , returning to the same overworked grievance . |
| 11 | His grand-daughter , Tatyana Tolstaya ( born in 1951 ) , writes sometimes as if she were in direct communication with the ghosts of the world that vanished when Alexei Nikolaevich was still a young man . |
| 12 | On balance , she felt enough loyalty to Gilbert and enough concern about Amy to feel that , if she were alive and if she were by any chance a party to her husband 's death , the Church rather than the police should be her first sanctuary . |
| 13 | It was as if she was under some sort of hypnotic spell . |
| 14 | Robyn cleared her throat awkwardly and tried to muster a voice that sounded as if she was in total control . |
| 15 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 16 | She examined her conscience to discover if she was in any way to blame for her companion 's curious behaviour . |
| 17 | He always swore that when he was going over the Baloch that 's the the road between Glen Ayloch and Kil and Glen Shee , he said i if you were at certain hour of the night he said as sure as anything there was a man on horseback pass you with this horse . |
| 18 | If you were on one side of the inside edge of the ring and you wanted to get to a point on the other side , you would have to go round the inner edge of the ring . |
| 19 | tell me what arrangements have you got your with your employer if you were on long term sickness ? |
| 20 | If you desire a loving , intimate relationship , ask yourself how you would think , feel and behave if you were in that relationship — and do it now . |
| 21 | If you were in private accommodation you were noth , you were nothing like so well off . |
| 22 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ Finnan went on , ‘ seeing your company so finely decked out for travelling , if you were by any chance headed the same way ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If we was into that shit , you would n't be able to stand on this corner with us like this , you 'd get killed , ’ points out one former member , who declines to identify himself . |
| 24 | I liked that idea : it seemed aristocratic to me , just walking out empty-handed as if we were above all objects . |
| 25 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 26 | erm strike out , interim payment , order fourteen er itself , there 's always still available to them , erm that the other side of the coin is if they get their money and of course they 're going to be threatening bankruptcy for some four thousand odd Names , I mean that 's , that 's equally devastating to individuals , erm my Lord , one would be into a type of argument on balance of convenience if we were at this stage , one would be considering the bankruptcy of the names , whether they have the funds to pay , even if judgment is given against them because vast majority do n't and what would be the point of giving judgment , this order fourteen cases saying one should n't do it in those circumstances , what if the names are right , will they get the money back , will they get a cross undertaking damages and pre er , er and to what extent do now have the funds , to what extent will it actually effect their business in the light of of |
| 27 | Holding onto the balcony as if we were in rough seas , we shout only to have our words whipped away . |
| 28 | ‘ If we were in Catholic west Belfast instead of Protestant north Belfast we would be treated differently . ’ |
| 29 | And , if there were times those qualities seemed exaggerated , she understood . |
| 30 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |