Example sentences of "it were the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother , being as it were the core from which the family springs , causes all its members of the family to lose their bearings when distanced from . |
| 2 | It seemed to me it were the type of place you could sit and do your knitting . |
| 3 | He waved his hand munificently in the direction of the sideboard , as if it were the bar at White 's . |
| 4 | Brutal it were the way he knocked the other feller about . ’ |
| 5 | She spun to find a little bald woman — Chesarynth 's mind seized upon the woman 's finger-socket as though it were the badge of some sisterhood — and said , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 6 | The Venerable David Silk , Archdeacon of Leicester , summing up the theological opposition , said that in ordaining women the Church of England would ‘ cease to be part of the Catholic , apostolic church and would be behaving as if it were the whole of Christianity , or a mere sect ’ . |
| 7 | When his unlucky opponent approached , the fighter would grab the scabbard with his right hand and raise it in the air as if it were the knife . |
| 8 | How dare he look so composed , so unaffected by what had just happened between them , when her own stomach felt as if it were the epicentre of an earthquake ? |
| 9 | The clear , vivid patterns excite the zebra 's eyes and give it a sensation of strong identity , as if it were the member of a football team or a sports club with conspicuous striped shirts . |
| 10 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 11 | Obviously is neither a scalar nor the component of a four-vector : if it were the first it would remain constant under the Lorentz transformation to S ' if it were the second the change would be linear in γ . |
| 12 | more than the mere fact of existence ; it is as it were the ego quality of this existence . |
| 13 | For if it were the man himself would crumble . |
| 14 | That was n't yesterday it were the day before . |
| 15 | I were thinking , oh it were the day you came up with them and then you went off to , er |
| 16 | If it were the case that some of the remaining words were radically different from the approximate values for shape and length they could be removed from the list of candidates . |
| 17 | This argument might hold if it were the case that affectivity were obscure and incomprehensible . |
| 18 | where the box-arrow is used to symbolise the subjunctive conditional construction in English ‘ If it were the case that … , it would be the case that … |
| 19 | But even if it were the case , the formal separation of the term furnished tenancy from the contents of the bracket would still be unwarranted . |
| 20 | I think probably the County Council are in a better position than me er to advise you as to whether that thirty one thousand commitment figure is true of not , but if it were the case , then I think , Yes I would agree that erm the train would stop very quickly , and in view of the situation that we 're now in , there would have to be a degree of future flexibility to allow for phased reduction in development over future years . |
| 21 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 22 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 23 | I mean if it were the case that we got on the way to establishing an appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , one where women felt comfortable and where they felt they could get the most from their educational experience , I think that would have profound impact on people 's later lives . |
| 24 | Instantly , she thrust it from her as though it were the plague . |
| 25 | He watched Tessa start reluctantly down the stairs , cradling the open suitcase in her arms , then went back into the flat , wishing it were the middle of the night once more . |
| 26 | George Buchanan also contends that it is the people who are the ultimate source of the laws : " the Law is more powerful than the King , and the People more powerful than the Law " for " the People is as it were the Parent of the Law , certainly the Author thereof . " |
| 27 | Under s412(1) ( now TA 1988 , s739 ) the income which is to be taxed as if it were the taxpayer 's is income which he has power to enjoy within the meaning of the section . |
| 28 | ‘ It were the smell . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ said the home-help , ‘ it were the Warden found her , not me . |
| 30 | They will also dance to an electric light bulb as if it were the sun . |