Example sentences of "[subord] it were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time Morris got a telephone call which sounded from his laconic replies as if it were private business , Dyson frowned at him warningly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But this time it was n't a dream — she was really here , breathing the drifting green atmosphere as if it were ordinary air . |
| 4 | If it were straight narrative it would be a Giant , but as a graphic novel its market is greatly reduced . |
| 5 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 6 | The scientist who hangs on to yesterday 's theory as if it were eternal truth is liable to be dumped on the flat earth — where he belongs . |
| 7 | SSP is straightforward to operate and is paid by you , the employer , as if it were normal pay . |
| 8 | If it were full size you would have shaped the shoulders on a garment with no trouble at all and have a lovely neat edge for sewing up or grafting . |
| 9 | In diseases such as multiple sclerosis and certain forms of neuromuscular disorder the body appears to destroy part of itself , as if it were foreign tissue . |
| 10 | At a signal from the Reclusiarch the lights dimmed , all but one bright narrow shaft descending aslant from a hole in the centre of the stellar vault as though it were liquid starlight . |
| 11 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
| 12 | Um , if you look at erm who 's bringing people up , again according to Daley and Wilson , I think this is where the information originated , in Canada where they 've looked at um looked at some statistics on this , if you 're being brought up by step-parents you 're seventy times more at risk than if you 're being brought up by your as it were biological parents . |
| 13 | Given Tate 's deepseated and as it were forefated Virgilianism , it hardly could . |
| 14 | Sir , if you do come to the view , however , that one or both of these sites may have some as it were residual greenbelt functions , then we ask you to bear in mind the matters raised , in particular Mrs 's appendix nine , about the need in the longer term , that is , beyond two thousand and six in particular , for a strategic reserve . |
| 15 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 16 | yes I allow the plaintiffs appeal and dismiss the defendants as it were cross appeal from the order in erm it 's the August er taxing master right of the twelfth , twelfth of August is n't it ? |
| 17 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |