Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] it with [art] " in BNC.

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1 If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges .
2 If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably .
3 The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute .
4 One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge .
5 And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation .
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