Example sentences of "it were [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ambassador gave a diagonal nod of the head , as if it were slightly impertinent to know more than he did about local matters . |
| 2 | Yet the pollution control sections of the agencies are ultimately impotent to secure the compliance of their colleagues in sewage treatment , lacking recourse to the legal sanction ( even if it were organizationally possible to prosecute fellow-workers ) . |
| 3 | We were coming to see you last night , and then all day so he said it were n't fair to go anywhere like he was . |
| 4 | Moreover , if it were not possible to refer to different topics of discourse , there would be no occasion for referring to anything as " the same " . |
| 5 | He never thought of patenting his invention or trying to make any money out of it , but others who saw it were not slow to realize its potential , and soon copies began to appear and were sold for £6 or £7 each . |
| 6 | If it were not permissible to take account of the Parliamentary history of the relevant legislation and of ministerial statements of its intended effect , I should remain of that opinion . ’ |
| 7 | If it were not permissible to take account of the Parliamentary history of the relevant legislation and of ministerial statements of its intended effect , I should remain of that opinion . |
| 8 | But if by any chance it were ever possible to locate this ‘ vernacular ’ in the usage of an informant , we would have no criteria for demonstrating that we had located it , any more than we could locate ‘ the dialect ’ in the speech of a single informant . |
| 9 | Mrs Browning handed her Ellen 's missive as though it were hardly fit to handle and she took it with equal reluctance . |
| 10 | I would n't be at all surprised if it were too much to get finished in one day — which would mean that she 'd have to stay overnight . ’ |
| 11 | With force becoming less attractive , the states-system was likely to stay in place , since the available means to overthrow it were too destructive to use . |
| 12 | An operation like this must be a write-off , the odds against it were too great to make it worth pursuing . |
| 13 | What is the Government 's attitude to Labour 's proposal for a defence diversification agency , bearing in mind that if it were so easy to create jobs through a Government agency , it is surprising that Labour has always left behind more unemployed than when it took office . |
| 14 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 15 | Another is that co-operating individuals jointly benefited even though they were not related ; the co-operative behaviour has evolved because those who did it were more likely to survive as individuals and reproduce than those that did not . |