Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must begin with a coincidence which I would not dare to recount if this were a work of fiction . |
| 2 | If this were a story by a ‘ serious ’ writer the critics would pursue the symbolism of hidden latches and dark tunnels as diligently as the children pursue the gang of international smugglers discovered in the cave at the end of the tunnel . |
| 3 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 4 | If this were a musical , she thought irrelevantly , there 'd be a song about now . |
| 5 | If this were a respite it was a shortlived one . |
| 6 | If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome . |
| 7 | It was a soft , slow moaning , punctuated with sharp little sounds like cries ; the earth grieving in a whisper , but in some weird way with a purpose as if this were a language , a communication . |
| 8 | as if this were a signal , the entire barrage magnified and intensified itself . |
| 9 | I feel , she thought , as though we are besieged here , as though this were a fortress , and the whole world outside were one enormous enemy , ready to slide through the gates and the thickets of rhododendron and into our front door if we leave it open even a little . |
| 10 | If this were a list of localities where an industrial plant unleashed disaster on the folks next door , that would be bad enough . |
| 11 | Sometimes he could feel as if this were a frontier post , with everything out there just waiting and passing time until the opportunity came to grab the territory back . |
| 12 | Specifically , we are presented with a rather bland , urban or suburban , middle-class model of family living as if this were a model of or for society as a whole . |
| 13 | He certainly would be if this were a movie . |
| 14 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 15 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 16 | If this were the case , most people , whose call is to marriage , would be able to pick up one message and one message only from celibates . |
| 17 | If this were the case it would explain why they had not held meetings on this occasion . |
| 18 | If this were the case , then the implications for our society would be enormous and worthy of more than passing comment . |
| 19 | Exceptions to this were the case of the Chilean urban poor before and during the Allende period and Peruvian collective action during the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 20 | Even if this were the case , there would still be the social problems experienced by mentally handicapped people who may have spent most of their lives in a hospital and find it difficult to cope with a completely new environment . |
| 21 | If this were the case , it would follow that the meme for celibacy could have greater survival value than the meme for marriage . |
| 22 | But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ? |
| 23 | The validity of this intuition awaits the report of the experiment , but if this were the case , what foundation could it have ? |
| 24 | If this were the case , would it not be best to tackle them in terms of the theory of games ? |
| 25 | If this were the case , the council must have been rapidly undeceived . |
| 26 | But if this were the case , then the fleas had taken a terrible revenge for the loss of their erstwhile companion through history , their life-support system . |
| 27 | There is a possibility that minister here refers to Ealdhun and that Offa was angered because Ealdhun had given his lands to Christ Church , Canterbury , without King Ecgberht 's permission , but even if this were the case , it is clear that Offa 's reaction was to the way in which Ecgberht also had made grants of land without his permission ; he revoked both Ealdhun 's donations and Ecgberht 's , not only to Canterbury but to Rochester . |
| 28 | If this were the case in driving it would have important implications for peoples ’ ability to learn to avoid danger . |
| 29 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 30 | If this were the case then within an individual junction we would expect risk related information to be best remembered for risky exemplars and peripheral information to be best remembered for the less risky exemplars . |