Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody was quite sure what that really meant but if it were to mean that audiences were now ready for films which dealt sensationally with sex , crime , and shady city affairs then that was what they were to be given . |
| 2 | If it were proved that insider dealing was a desirable activity , then the issue of the Chinese Wall would be of marginal significance , since adopting the mechanism would hinder what would otherwise be a worthy activity . |
| 3 | For some time it was suspected that Camp Mill was the site , but this now appears unlikely . |
| 4 | It was suspected that Alexander Peden was sheltering at Priesthill and Claverhouse hoped to ‘ catch two birds with the one stone ’ . |
| 5 | In the previous section it was explained that N ( d 1 ) and N ( d 2 ) were cumulative probabilities of a unit normal variable . |
| 6 | Their sense of tradition is also very strong and instead of dying out in 1951 when enthusiasm was beginning to wane a little , it was revitalised when Stanley Robshaw took it in hand and set it firmly on its feet again . |
| 7 | Corals cut Cacoethes from 6-1 to 5-1 co-favourite with Aliysa and Young Mother for Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after it was confirmed that Steve Cauthen will ride Guy Harwood 's colt . |
| 8 | When it was confirmed that Len Seager had broken his neck a meeting was called with all relevant parties to discuss the case . |
| 9 | In the Allied Dunbar ( Frank Weisinger ) case it was confirmed that sale purchase covenants will be construed less stringently than employee 's covenants . |
| 10 | In a report in The Times of Aug. 28 it was confirmed that police had filed criminal charges against Bhutto 's husband , Asif Ali Zardari , on grounds of illegal possession of arms , as well as on corruption charges . |
| 11 | But it was confirmed that aides urged the media to concentrate on the royal couple 's four-day tour rather than speculating on their relationship . |
| 12 | But it was confirmed that aides urged the media to concentrate on the royal couple 's four-day tour of Korea rather than speculating on their relationship . |
| 13 | As heads cleared , it was seen that dangers remained : a potential flood of refugees from the Soviet Union or the Balkans , the internal tensions of poverty and ethnic division , the giant still next door . |
| 14 | But when the word reached him , and especially when it was seen that Lord Grey himself was with the party , thereafter I can not be sure . |
| 15 | From the data on cropping it was seen that grass made up by far the greatest proportion of arable hectares . |
| 16 | Tied up with poll tax , it was done before poll tax was erm it 's only just been announced because there 's been a lot of negotiations going on , but the figure was committed before poll tax came into being — right ? |
| 17 | It was enacted that offenders were to be brought before a member of the King 's Council or a Justice of the Peace for examination ; hunting in disguise or by night , and wilful concealment of such offences were to be punished as felonies — that is , by death and forfeiture of property . |
| 18 | From a combination of three levels of professional development — unreflective self-evaluation based on practical knowledge , self-evaluation as practical deliberation and self-evaluation as action research — it was assumed that teaching quality would most noticeably be improved through deliberation and action research . |
| 19 | It was assumed that projects exist either with easily specified cash flows or with easily specified underlying factors which give rise to those cash flows . |
| 20 | It was assumed that Europe ( outside the Dual Monarchy and Russia ) ought to be organized on national lines . |
| 21 | It was assumed that shareholders would have a long-term commitment to their company and that if there was a problem , it would be the directors rather than the shareholders who would change . |
| 22 | Only the unmarried mother was given specific mention ; for the rest it was assumed that women would follow their husbands . |
| 23 | Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste . |
| 24 | It was assumed that schools would be using the materials and theme for about twelve periods a week for six weeks , as Miss Garnett noted : " This is probably as long as the steam stays in a theme for this age , and nobody should feel embarrassed about pulling out of it quicker if it seems right to do so " ( Leicester/Leicestershire Curriculum Development Project 1970 : I ) . |
| 25 | Built during a period of architectural optimism , when it was assumed that technology would triumph , it had been laid out in a series of oblong paved courtyards , surrounded by long , low , concrete-faced buildings , remarkable solely for their brutalism . |
| 26 | Crudely simplified , majority opinion passed through two well-defined phases in the West : first , it was assumed that war was unthinkable and impossible as a continuation of policy ; later , it was suggested that within certain limits nuclear war might still be winnable , if you were sufficiently prepared . |
| 27 | At the time Beccaria was writing , however , it was assumed that God and righteousness would prevent innocents from breaking under torture and falsely confessing . |
| 28 | At seminary , it was assumed that God was above and his servants below , and somewhere in between came his ministers of religion . |
| 29 | In assessing the impact of stories of premature interment , one must bear in mind that for most of the nineteenth century , medical science , such as it was , was helpless in the face of coma and cardiac arrest ; if the patient had apparently ceased breathing and had no discernable heartbeat , it was assumed that death had come . |
| 30 | Until such pioneers as Marjorie Warren began to demonstrate otherwise in the 1930s , it was assumed that victims of strokes , for example , were incapable of rehabilitation . |