Example sentences of "if there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be a useful raw material if there were locally a need for mild alkali in this form . |
| 2 | If there were simply no correlation whatsoever between the electrical output of a photo-electric cell and some other measure of light intensity directly or indirectly related to experience , it would not have been accepted as a way of measuring light intensity . |
| 3 | Well th the profits of the sale fixed assets that the shares and would be if there were any the sale profits on the sale of any other pieces of land at Lakeside or indeed elsewhere in the group and we sold a site not in ninety two , it was ninety one at Frinton I think you 'll remember that so small profits . |
| 4 | All these went out so silently , and with such a measured pace , that it seemed as if there were only a score . |
| 5 | If there were ever a Government who had a different view of industrial relations and a different relationship with the trade unions , who knows whether events such as my hon. Friend mentioned might not occur again ? |
| 6 | His beautiful eyes were full of warmth and laughter , and if there was also a trace of cynicism she chose not to identify it . |
| 7 | It would be a pretty terrible place , this boarding section , if there was just the headmaster and his wife . ’ |
| 8 | At the extreme , nuclear power poses the risk that if the reaction inside the core should get out of control , or even if there was just the failure of a vital pipe or valve , even larger quantities of radiation would enter the human environment . |
| 9 | Even if there was still a peace to be saved in 1940 , it seemed most unlikely that Labour would win the election . |
| 10 | We talk about decisions as if there was always a point in time before which the decision was not made arid after which it has been made . |
| 11 | Worn out with his own personal brand of window shopping ; all that staring and never buying anything , all those shop windows , all those men to stare at and not dare follow , as if there was indeed a sheet of plate glass between him and them . |
| 12 | There is a touch of the actor in every good schoolmaster , but it must be doubted if there was ever a man in whom the two professions were so evenly balanced . |
| 13 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 14 | If there was ever a classic is about the laziest bastard on this side of Christendom and he and he he would n't do anything that supports your business at all |
| 15 | Penge U.D.C. were quite happy with the proposed double track throughout , as they thought it would help if there was ever a prospect of through running with the London County Council . |
| 16 | If there was ever a time to change things radically that time has long passed . |
| 17 | She did n't normally drink any alcohol , but , if there was ever a time that she stood in need of hard liquor , this was definitely it ! |
| 18 | ‘ But is n't it remarkable that we should say , ‘ I meant … ‘ ( that is , in the past tense ) if there was only the sentence , ‘ Go to the bank ’ and no accompanying interpretation ? ’ ( 39–40 ) . |