Example sentences of "were [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage . |
| 2 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
| 3 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 4 | ‘ If you were to give me a ha'penny I might tell you different ’ |
| 5 | So even if somebody were to offer us a piece which they would n't I 'm sure , a piece of old medieval furniture , we would n't take it . |
| 6 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 7 | Eliot 's concerns were to make him a natural contributor to The Rock where the theme of the city would again be combined with a new modification of the theme of the savage . |
| 8 | Right , correction , one lady does n't , but those who do go back to the Property Committee and I would say that erm if this were to happen , and the County Council were to make it a permanent site in that particular position , we could lay a charge of gross negligence , or even mis-appropriation of assets . |
| 9 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 10 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 11 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |