Example sentences of "if [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me an odd look as if I was telling strange stories . |
| 2 | If yu were to eat brown bread . |
| 3 | Ali poses a question , his eyes closed , his lips parting as if her were sliding open manhole covers . |
| 4 | If she was addressing young people she made it her business to acquaint herself with their interests . |
| 5 | Turakina wrinkled her nose as if she was smelling bad meat . |
| 6 | If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage . |
| 7 | If you were to use essential oil neat , that 's the little drops of oil , it 's too strong and it will h Well it wo n't harm you but it wo n't it might set up irritations . |
| 8 | Measure for measure , the paper is more expensive than if you were to buy full sheets and cut up the paper yourself , but pochettes are good when you want to try different weights or colours without paying for full sheets . |
| 9 | If you were claiming dual tax relief with your partner before remortgaging , this limitation may come as a serious financial shock to the system . |
| 10 | If you were paying full stamps before 1948 , your working life dates from the year you entered ( or re-entered ) the state insurance scheme . |
| 11 | Let us be clear about this : if we were to deploy naval units , they could be effective only if they were authorised to fire . |
| 12 | It was a soft infectious laughter , as if we were sharing private jokes . |
| 13 | Let us just accept that the inclusion of education within social policy is the consequence of a comparatively arbitrary decision by the author , and move on to look at the difficult problems that would have to be faced if we were to define social policy in terms of public expenditure which contributes to public welfare . |
| 14 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 15 | If we were to legalise soft drugs , that would no longer be a problem . |
| 16 | Now it wo n't cure all the problems I 'm pretending that it will , but if we were to have proper seats , proper microphones , electronic voting I believe that it would show symbolically that the House of Commons was prepared to modernize itself and start doing a proper job in our democracy rather than the farce and the theatre which frankly turns so many people off in modern Britain . |
| 17 | If we were talking medical practices . |
| 18 | Even if we were to obtain substantial concessions and eliminate all our strategic nuclear weapons , we could not eliminate all theirs , so we would merely leave them with a residual capability which would be overwhelming and a continual menace to ourselves . |
| 19 | If we were to present separate maps for unemployment by sex , the map for females would show southern Italy in a worse light , but female unemployment data are particularly prone to non-comparability because of wider differences between countries in the definitions used . |
| 20 | If one were to include other categories of ‘ news ’ , such as ‘ Law , police and accidents ’ — a category excluded from the public affairs one — then the reader would have had access to substantial amounts of information about the outside world . |
| 21 | We confidently assume that the results set out here will , in their broad principles , be valid for any language ; however , because of the limitless domains that would appear on the horizon if one were to include proper exemplification from other languages , and since there is ample material to consider in English alone , the latter is the basis on which the investigation will proceed . |
| 22 | ‘ At such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well , utterly helpless . ’ |
| 23 | There are undoubtedly people who will still say , ‘ I do n't want my little Johnny to get food poisoning and that 's the end of the story , ’ — although unfortunately , they would be misled if they were to choose irradiated food for that reason . ’ |
| 24 | Those with 16 or 17 passes but meeting all other requirements , and who could not keep within the ‘ 21 rule ’ if they were to take additional modules are awarded a degree without honours . |
| 25 | It was necessary therefore to originate our national network shows early in the evening if they were to reach other parts of the country before their respective peak listening hours had passed into bedtimes . |
| 26 | Patients were not included in the study if they had undergone previous gastric surgery or if they were receiving cytotoxic drugs or >5 mg/day prednisolone . |
| 27 | The initial record of all food and drink consumed for a week helped us to see if our clients were depriving themselves of food for long periods and if they were eating balanced meals . |
| 28 | He and the other members of the company were picking out shapeless ingots , precious gems and buckled coins , licking their fingers as they burnt them , as if they were pulling roast chestnuts out of a grate . |
| 29 | Here part-time members could take on a significant role if they were allocated specific monitoring responsibilities and duties , but their current situation and pay militates against that ( Henney , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | The early fusion experiments looked as if they were making great strides toward the desired goal . |