Example sentences of "if we [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And it would have to be found er if we were to move to the er position that Mr Curtis has said about the total need , it would have to be found somewhere else .
2 If we were to move to an earnings-linked set-up , we should have to make changes accordingly .
3 The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target .
4 If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object .
5 If we were bound by the decision in Handscomb , I would see force in the argument that this principle should apply equally to mandatory life sentences .
6 The method of composition helps to explain the feel of the blank verse ; it should be read aloud , in a quiet meditative manner , as if we were listening to a man trying hard to clarify his own thoughts about a difficult topic and at the same lime explaining it to somebody else .
7 It seemed as if we were flying in the 1930s .
8 ‘ Look , Micky , ’ said Peter Hickton , ‘ would it help if we were to go through the lines again this evening , just the two of us ? ’
9 Note that if we were looking across the board from left to right the rig would still be relatively upright , as it is being pushed well forwards thereby supplying maximum power .
10 It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level .
11 Erm presumably we are talking here next year , talking about sort of years effects , and I just wondered what would be the effects that in general terms if we were looking at the full year effects ?
12 Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make
13 If we were pushed to the fringes of power we would be stripped of influence in both Europe and the world .
14 We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends .
15 It was as if we were locked in a torture chamber .
16 We happen to lie in the line of sight so far as Algol is concerned ( or nearly so ) ; if we were observing from a different vantage point there would be no eclipses , and Algol would shine steadily .
17 If we were to come across an object the like of which we had never before encountered , we would be in no position to determine whether it was an artefact or not , or to conclude with certainty that it had actually been designed and made by human beings .
18 So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs .
19 ( Kenny does not add that if we were talking of the perceptions of fish or bees , our judgements might lack the confidence of those made of cats or apes . )
20 But if we were deciding on a brass plaque or something
21 And what if we were caught in the exit chimneys in a storm like the one the day before , stranded without head torches ?
22 If we were sitting in a room and someone came in talking or making a noise , Dawn would panic and it would take me a few minutes to calm her down .
23 If we were to start on a building of such magnitude — which we have not yet attempted — it is easy to imagine the army of architects and engineers , the volumes of plans , the batteries of computers , the regiments of construction machinery we would require .
24 Like I was just saying if we were going to a
25 If we were to look at the constitutional situation we may have to look at the position of the Princess Royal .
26 If we were to look at the balance sheets of these other banks , we should find that their customers ' deposits had increased and that this increase was matched on the asset side by an increase in their operational balances at the Bank of England .
27 But I you know hopeful I know that th th th quite a large and high numbers but what we agreed was if we were working on the basis of something like on one person every six weeks
28 If we were to backtrack in the area of supporting composers , commissioning new work and putting it on as public a stage as possible , that would be close to admitting : ‘ Look , a classical commercial station can do the job just as well .
29 The finances were in the hands of one of our most scrupulous colleagues , but not even her careful accounting could alter the fact that if we were to survive beyond the first month we would need to raise some money .
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