Sentence examples for were to substitute from inspiring English sources

If he were to substitute another minority group for his "joke" — say, Hispanics, Asians or African-Americans — people would be excoriating him.

If you were to substitute a few female world champions for a few of the guys on the list, I don't think anyone would have complained at all".

If the 170,000 tons of gold mined through history were to substitute for this, the gold would be worth about $3,100 an ounce.

Mr Abbott added: "Oxford would damage its standing as a great university if it were to substitute moral vanity for fair-minded enquiry.

If all companies were to substitute debt for equity on the scale that private-equity firms have, there would be an increase in the cost of debt.

If we were to substitute "sound" for "words" and "music" for "poetry", then I think we have a pretty good creed for Goldsmith's artistic approach, albeit one with slightly eccentric grammar.

The goal, he said, is to "substitute information for armor".

Far easier, she said, is to substitute parsnips, which are bigger, sweeter, better.

One of a new writer's first responses can be to substitute other verbs for "said".

The key, he found in his research, is to substitute intensity of effort for time.

Mr. Grupp's cure is to substitute some other thought for the fear of financial insecurity.