Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , and most significantly , the public would be seriously worried , whatever the prevailing view in the laboratory , if it were to chink that little of moral significance separated the killing of animals from that of certain groups of human beings such as babies or imbeciles . |
| 2 | Professor Jacobs even states that ‘ it would be proper , for example , if it were regarded as desirable … to require that agricultural and environmental considerations be taken together in the assessment of eligibility for support ’ . |
| 3 | But there would be no power of entry without a warrant if it were suspected that such an offence was taking place , even though there is such a power for the less serious offence under section 4 . |
| 4 | Never could they securely hold the Rhine until the Frisians at the lower end of it and the Saxons across it were tamed and Christianized . |
| 5 | But I says , that they were , I , that he were n't satisfied when it were vibrating and that . |
| 6 | If it were found that more accidents occurred in the winter months between 6 and 8 o'clock in the evening compared with noon and 2 o'clock , is this because , during the early evening , lighting is worse , there is more traffic , drivers have been working longer and are more tired , or weather conditions are worse ? |
| 7 | Yet if it were known that microcephalic babies ( perhaps older infants as well — would it make a difference ? ) were regularly sold to research laboratories , then there would undoubtedly be an outcry . |
| 8 | ‘ If it were thought that other clubs would try to copy them , their example might , I am afraid , be unfortunate . |
| 9 | Amidst these grand claims for the ‘ effects ’ of writing , Olson suppresses the qualification cited above that ‘ whether meaning can be made explicit in text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can ’ and proceeds as though it were agreed and verifiable that writing can and does have such effects because of its intrinsic qualities . |
| 10 | As was noted above , it was suspected that this was a factor in the lack of a build-up of long-stay patients in the new services established after Powick was closed to admissions . |
| 11 | This would cause many of the possible infinities to cancel out , but it was suspected that some infinities might still remain . |
| 12 | It was glistening and damp , a pale golden colour , and its ribs heaved a little still with the exertion of its arrival into this strange new world . |
| 13 | In 1965 it was condemned as unsafe and locked up . |
| 14 | It was maintained that small amounts of assistance to firms could result in measurable improvements in the sales of products of assisted firms . |
| 15 | No , these did n't show any stalls , but they 're i it was explained that one of the constraints in the design of the scheme was the brief that they had to leave space for er as many stalls as possible to be erected . |
| 16 | In the last chapter it was explained that some of the world 's languages are ‘ tone languages ’ , in which substituting one distinctive tone for another on a particular word or morpheme can cause a change in the dictionary ( ‘ lexical ’ ) meaning of that word or morpheme , or in some aspect of its grammatical categorisation . |
| 17 | It was explained that these accounts would be used in a later practical class . |
| 18 | It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods . |
| 19 | I remind him that there has been criticism historically when statements have been made about incidents in Great Britain , when it was commented that similar statements had not been made in the context of Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | It was created when 8,400 refugees returned from a 10-year exile in Honduras between November 1989 and February of this year . |
| 21 | When it was seen that all clan chiefs had taken the oath , Dalrymple was frustrated , but not for long . |
| 22 | It was seen as sinister , however , and taken away . |
| 23 | It was seen as necessary to increase police powers to ban and control demonstrations and marches and to remove ambiguities in the existing law . |
| 24 | In a war presented by the government as a struggle between democracy and dictatorship , it was seen as essential that the normal political processes should continue , so the regular pattern of elections went on . |
| 25 | This being the case it was seen as essential to set a financial qualification for the franchise that would give the vote to " decent " farmers and shopkeepers whilst excluding the lower social orders who might use their votes to plunder the public purse for their own advantage . |
| 26 | It was seen as healthy for the British-American relationship and a good omen for Mr Bush 's re-election hopes this autumn . |
| 27 | And then but it was seen as okay that the men could go to the pub after a funeral ? |
| 28 | The reported comments among Leipzig workers also hinted at a possible prolongation of the war through the entry of America into the conflict , and it was seen as vital that the Führer bring about ‘ a lightning quick destruction of England — with gas if necessary ’ . |
| 29 | For the police squad it was a new experience , but they had seen how it was done and all landed safely . |
| 30 | Lastly , it was assumed that new powers for planning would become available , including powers for the control of land values . |