Example sentences of "if they were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem many misunderstood the form and responded to the following points as if they were under the heading of organisation . |
| 2 | His harsh voice shouted at them as if they were at the top of the rigging , rather than a stone 's throw from his feet . |
| 3 | The two slaves moved jerkily , as if they were at the ends of strings . |
| 4 | Everyone took turns to patrol the streets at night during air raids , and had to be particularly vigilant in the event of firebombs , because if they were on the spot with their fire buckets of sand and water , many a fire could be put out before it got too bad . |
| 5 | Statistics hide the latter since married women are usually not registered as unemployed ; if they were on the register , unemployment statistics would change dramatically ! |
| 6 | ‘ Logical ’ here means those records that are processed as if they were on the track . |
| 7 | ‘ If they were on the road we could n't hear them from the house , and I truly doubt that anyone would go home via the graveyard and the woods . |
| 8 | His knees looked to Bernice as if they were on the verge of buckling . |
| 9 | If they were on the side of the English couple with weird habits , then the whole village would be . |
| 10 | We began our discussion of the policy-making process by considering the roles of parties and pressure groups as if they were on the outside looking in , so to speak . |
| 11 | This time last year we were fairly hyped-up with an election coming and people were checking if they were on the register . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Hurd has talked about these articles as if they were about the imposition of old East European ‘ socialism ’ ( with Chancellor Kohl leading the way ? ) . |
| 13 | But the amounts the Poles spent were dwarfed by the way the Nazis used state funds as if they were from the Nazi Party cash box . |
| 14 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 15 | If an attempt is to be made it would be wise to approach those organisations with whom the dead person , or their spouse , had some link , eg. Royal British Legion , 48 Pall Mall , London , SW1Y 5JY , Tel. 071–930 8131 ; or the Soldiers , Sailors and Airmens Families Association , 19 Queen Elizabeth Street , London , SE1 2LP , Tel. 071–403 8783/071–962 9696 if they were in the services . |
| 16 | Many said they would feel shy if they were in the minority on a mixed course so there might well be opportunities for all-women courses . |
| 17 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 18 | And might have too , if they were in the open . |
| 19 | Many of them worked late into the night with their files and their problems of decisions , or if they were in the Judicature , their judgements . |
| 20 | That man , what a funny character , did he treat everyone as if they were in the Army ? |
| 21 | But if they were in the author 's voice , then the interpolation of Stefek 's quoted description would be glaringly inappropriate . |
| 22 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 23 | Sometimes Ken came too , or one of the boys if they were in the mood , but mostly he went by himself , trying to sort himself out . |
| 24 | It was a point of honour that , if they were in the country , they 'd be there , sitting in the middle of the fifth row of the stalls , both resplendent in Victorian evening dress , clutching shiny top hats and silver-topped canes . |
| 25 | It would be a different tale if they were in the king 's own shoes , for he 's a marcher lord himself by reason of his Bohun marriage , and when Wales is in question he thinks like a marcher lord , and there 's an end of it . |
| 26 | If they were in the possession of a warehouseman ( or other agent ) holding them on behalf of the seller , that is sufficient . |
| 27 | When we arrested people , if we arrested them and if they were in the police station for many hours , the only food that they were given was supplied by Weavers Restaurant , just inside Street . |
| 28 | Now , it looked as if they were newly decorating so whether the water got into there or not , but it did n't look as if they were in the process of decorating so I hope it did n't for their sake . |
| 29 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |