Example sentences of "were [to-vb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although an earlier check with the weather office predicted a favourable wind for that evening , it did not materialize and conditions were to remain the same the following day when only one Spitfire was delivered by F/C Heering who had flown direct from Brize Norton . |
| 2 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 3 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
| 4 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 5 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 6 | One may imagine the furore if the Court of Appeal were to take the same stance in a capital case , a contingency happily remote . |
| 7 | Data in brackets indicate the values of change that would be ‘ expected ’ if employment in all individual manufacturing industries were to undergo the same changes as in Great Britain as a whole . |
| 8 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |