Example sentences of "[subord] it were [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at the same time the income divide between the top twenty percent of men and the bottom twenty percent is now greater than it were hundred years ago . |
| 2 | A similar lapse in the case of friendship , provided it were inadvertent , would be better and more charitably understood . |
| 3 | The maid took the plate from her mistress as if it were hot . |
| 4 | If it were due to some ‘ memory ’ of our life-style then we would predict that about half the population would show a value less than 24 hours and the free-running periods of individuals would be distributed fairly symmetrically about an average value of 24 hours . |
| 5 | If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe . |
| 6 | But he never succumbs to what Max Scheler termed ressentiment — that mixture of resentment and anger and injured pride that destroys so many , even if it were present in earlier years . |
| 7 | For instance , at a power line frequency between 100 and 120Hz , only lithium of atomic mass 7 , if it were present in solution as a free single-atom ion , could come near to satisfying the resonance requirement . |
| 8 | The reason is that the observables unc and s do not commute with each other and it is therefore impossible to have states in which they both take assigned values , like both being " up " , or one " up " and one " down " , as the second statement would imply if it were correct . |
| 9 | Every time Morris got a telephone call which sounded from his laconic replies as if it were private business , Dyson frowned at him warningly . |
| 10 | Rachaela lost herself in the house as if it were essential that she must . |
| 11 | In my personal opinion , the new inflationary model is now dead as a scientific theory , although a lot of people do not seem to have heard of its demise and are still writing papers as if it were viable . |
| 12 | If it were absent , all transactors could be relied on to keep a promise to implement any decision to the best of their ability . |
| 13 | And even if it were enforceable and there 's three how would you decide which two of the three could do the job . |
| 14 | The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made . |
| 15 | Change in classroom practice is often talked about as if it were easy to effect and impatience expressed towards teachers who are unable to accomplish it overnight . |
| 16 | Even if it were feasible , another pre-emptive strike by Israel would be foolish . |
| 17 | Between the extremes are solid modellers that treat an image as if it were solid — a kind of ‘ clay model ’ in a computer . |
| 18 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 19 | Freer use of the telephone is being extended to prisons with a lesser security category ; men in Maidstone can not believe it would jeopardize security there if it were available . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) If it were available in respect of a claim under the Act of 1978 , would the ex turpi causa defence clearly exclude a claim to contribution by the third defendant in this case ? |
| 21 | Indeed many of us , to different degrees in different situations , would reject the checkerboard solution not only in general and in advance , but even in particular cases if it were available as a possibility . |
| 22 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 23 | ‘ I think , ’ she remarked , ‘ it has pleased God to punish them justly , for they really talkt as if it were impossible they should be beaten . ’ |
| 24 | If it were all as simple as this , and if all fossil bones passed through these stages without modification , this book could finish right here , but unfortunately it is not so . |
| 25 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 26 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 27 | ‘ And if it were all true , do you really think I would have admitted it ? |
| 28 | as if it were all to begin again … |
| 29 | Out of bed , in a companionship reliant upon my entering his fantasy world and behaving as if it were real , we did less well , eventually . |
| 30 | If it were real , it would happen . |