Example sentences of "this [was/were] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 2 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 3 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 5 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 6 | If this were not the case and F t < E ( S T ) , a trader who bought a futures contract now and held it to delivery would , on average , make a profit of E ( S T ) - F t . |
| 7 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 8 | But suppose this were not the case . |
| 9 | If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins . |
| 10 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 11 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 12 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 13 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 14 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 15 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 16 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 17 | The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 18 | Rubbish , she told herself crossly , this was just the shyness resulting from that stupid dream . |
| 19 | And we 've now reached a situation in which there 's something over twenty percent of our streets is multiple occupation , erm and this is noise and other activities in relation to that are the things that cause the sort of low level of concern , and this was just the peak on top of that of major aggravation . |
| 20 | This was just the type of craft possessed by Jack Williamson , the percussion sideman with most of the CBR orchestras , and one Sunday he invited the Windrush crowd for a cruise up Howe Sound and Squamish Inlet to Bowen Island . |
| 21 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 22 | This was just the ticket , I thought , sitting on my canvas chair , quietly digesting my cake . |
| 23 | WITH Justin Fashanu 's black tie do to look forward to on Saturday evening , this was just the result to put the Airdrie players in the party mood . |
| 24 | But for all Dwyer 's optimism , this was just the sort of loose game in which the Wallabies excel and , although they have undoubted talent , the youngsters are going to find things considerably tighter in France . |
| 25 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 26 | This was just the sort of thing Henry wanted to read . |
| 27 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 28 | This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale . |
| 29 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 30 | This was n't the type of conversation she particularly enjoyed . |