Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You couldn ’ even prophesy your own death , when it wuz standin' right in front of you . |
| 2 | Anglican chant is a distinctive way of singing the Psalms and it would be a pity if it were lost altogether in the parishes . |
| 3 | Even such a perfect match would count for little if the fish had to wave its fins in order to maintain its position in the water , or if it were to move independently from the weed . |
| 4 | As will be seen , literature and the discipline which was based upon it were seen primarily as a means of transmitting personalities , on the model of the Dictionary of National Biography . |
| 5 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 6 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 7 | The Philippines government had previously agreed to allow the return of the late President 's body if it were flown directly to his home province of Ilocos Norte and buried within nine days . |
| 8 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 9 | and pulled myself over the gutter , it were alright getting up , it were getting back in |
| 10 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 11 | The old studio system which had produced good writers , good directors , good stars , good movies , was breaking up and bits of it were sliding all over the ancient and sacred lots . |
| 12 | It was clean , even the wheels were clean , as if it were put out on a drive on Sundays and given the old once-over like the family car . |
| 13 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 14 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 15 | Indeed , an externally " imposed " reform would be welcome as it would be politically more acceptable than if it were initiated solely through domestic pressures . |
| 16 | Iran has made it plain that it would take it amiss if it were left out of any post-war security arrangements for the Gulf — but even more amiss if outsiders ( read Americans ) were to stay on . |
| 17 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 18 | Cos it were sat there with er couple of , couple of cans of lager . |
| 19 | A taxpayer in Lambeth whose house was valued at £121,000 , for instance , would save £111 if it were valued instead at £119,000 ; so councils could find themselves swamped with appeals . |
| 20 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 21 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 22 | They may , for example , be an adjunct to the use of Taylorism , where fragmented work leads t o the use of particular types of organisation structure , whereas co-ordination of the same overall task , if it were carried out by craft workers on an integrated basis , might be carried out by means of a much simpler organisation structure . |
| 23 | At first glance , late Anglo-Saxon political history portrays a state riven by internal discord and highly vulnerable to external enemies : only fifty years after the Danish conquest it was subjugated again by the Normans . |
| 24 | It was confirmed later in October that the EC would provide further food aid worth some US$50,000,000 . |
| 25 | It was diagnosed eventually as congenital heart failure , though at first doctors thought it was liver failure , but it had also affected the lungs . |
| 26 | It was supported only in London and the South-West . |
| 27 | She did not specify , even to herself , the harm that might come to Alice , but it was bound up with love , with loving a man . |
| 28 | It was farmed out to Broadway people to put together , and cost an enormous amount of money . |
| 29 | ‘ So what do we do ? ’ asked Jimmy , looking back at the cabinet where it was wedged tight at the office door . |
| 30 | It was getting on towards moonset when they left the fields and entered the wood . |