Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 2 | ‘ And it would be nice , ’ she added slowly , ‘ if someone was to give us a bit reading . ’ |
| 3 | So even if somebody were to offer us a piece which they would n't I 'm sure , a piece of old medieval furniture , we would n't take it . |
| 4 | It is important to understand that there are two different ways of approaching this question , one being to consider what the speaker does in producing stressed syllables and the other being to consider what characteristics of sound make a syllable seem to a listener to be stressed . |
| 5 | Indeed the closer one focuses attention on the words and how they are made up , the less likely one is to understand what the passage is about . |