Example sentences of "this [was/were] [adv] [art] [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 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 13 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 14 | Growth follows the direction of the arrow — perhaps to meet the other half-span if this were truly a bridge . |
| 15 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 16 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 17 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | well they are now , my daughter now has a proper bum bag , but this was just a school , purse for school , just for break time . |
| 20 | Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test . |
| 21 | I warned you this was just a fling |
| 22 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 23 | This was just a warning . |
| 24 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 25 | He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes — but he knew this was just a dream . |
| 26 | This was just a back seat and very determined to stay that way . |
| 27 | This was just a continuation of the baseline . |
| 28 | And knowing this was just a beginning . |
| 29 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 30 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |