Example sentences of "[been] [art] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 2 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 3 | It could be anticipated that the college would have seen the creation of a continuous stream of books and papers generated by the rich source of material which pours through its gates , but this has hardly been the case . |
| 4 | However this has not always been the case ; the first version of the Texas Instruments TMS32010 simulator had an appalling screen display which relied on scrolling instead of bit mapped refresh . |
| 5 | Although Eurotunnel 's attitude to Trans Manche Link , the contractors ' consortium , was more conciliatory yesterday than has been the case , there are still important differences to be settled . |
| 6 | Government , employers and educators alike are now convinced that higher education should be expanded radically during the next decade , to include perhaps twice as high a proportion of school leavers and others than has traditionally been the case in the UK . |
| 7 | ‘ That might have been the case once , but now we produce perfectly good coaches ourselves , and I 'm concerned the incentive will disappear if administrators continue to look only to Australia . ’ |
| 8 | On the whole , therefore , researching the RUC has been more difficult than has been the case in most other studies in the sociology of policing ( for an exception see Punch 1989 ) , precisely because of the sensitivity of the topic in its social context . |
| 9 | In many agricultural projects this has not been the case . |
| 10 | In relation to churches serving other denominations , it has been the case until recently that Roman Catholic churches have rarely fallen out of use , although the general decline in religious observance is beginning to affect some of these buildings too . |
| 11 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 12 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 13 | In an increasing number of cases , no margin at all , as has been the case in the past and is so today in parts of Africa . |
| 14 | And this has always been the case . |
| 15 | This has been the case with three out of the past four successful Labour by-election candidates : a slow but novel way for Mr Kinnock to stamp out dissent in his parliamentary party . |
| 16 | That has been the case most clearly in America in the past dozen turbulent years . |
| 17 | It has long been the case that the fact of winning is far more important than the manner of doing so , and since they have found a winning formula they have a powerful argument for keeping it , especially now that the financial rewards are considerable . |
| 18 | But now , looking back , I think that such must have been the case . |
| 19 | That has always been the case in theory , but the new law removes any doubt . |
| 20 | As has consistently been the case , Paisley and other DUP politicians were prepared to go further than the Official Unionists and the provincial leadership of the Orange Order . |
| 21 | It has also always been the case that Democratic Unionists have been more willing than Official Unionists to try to prevent republican marches . |
| 22 | It has generally been the case that people who leave the DUP see their political careers terminated . |
| 23 | A similar ‘ flood of rumours and speculation , such as had hardly been the case after any other event ’ , also spread like a bushfire in other parts of Germany . |
| 24 | It may even have been the case — a suggestion emanating , admittedly , from a piece of post-war testimony — that the Reich Propaganda Ministry deliberately started off a rumour that the Führer , on discovering what was taking place ( in an ‘ action ’ which , in reality , he himself had authorized in writing ) , had given the order to halt it immediately . |
| 25 | Even so , it seems evidently to have been the case that before Stalingrad the voicing of direct criticism of the person of the Führer and his leadership was a rarity . |
| 26 | The head of the regional justice administration in Bamberg had also observed ‘ a sharp increase and intensification in criticism of the political and military leadership ’ and , ‘ what had never been the case before , to a growing extent of the person of the Führer , who is made responsible especially for the events in Stalingrad and in the Caucasus ’ . |
| 27 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 28 | We can infer from the available evidence , unsatisfactory though it is in many respects , that , as had been the case in 1939 , the attempt on Hitler 's life polarized sentiments . |
| 29 | It seems a justifiable inference , too , that , even more than had been the case in 1939 , a sizeable proportion of the population would not have been saddened by Hitler 's assassination , and viewed his survival as a hindrance to the ending of the war . |
| 30 | This has indeed usually been the case : for instance , in ancient Greece where the value of a silver coin was generally 5 per cent greater than an equivalent weight of silver ( to cover costs of minting and profit to the mint ) . |