Example sentences of "were [to-vb] the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 2 | His orders were to apply the methods that had proved so successful in Vienna to mop up the surviving Jewish influence at the heart of the Reich . |
| 3 | If the courts were to develop the idea that all errors of law are jurisdictional , defined the word law in a purely analytical way so that it embraced any , or almost any application of a statutory term and substituted judgment on the meaning of that term , then a prospective applicant would be clear that the courts would intervene using that standard . |
| 4 | I think that it would be helpful if , at this point , I were to remind the House that we have made special provision for students in certain groups . |
| 5 | They were to follow the track that skirted the south of the swampy depression and were then to take a path to the right which was marked by a great stone shaped like the head of a horse . |