Example sentences of "was [art] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think myself that this was the case , and that it scarcely makes him very different from many other hard-working people . |
| 2 | The most interesting one , in which clergy , local people , and the Dáil all played their part , was the case of the protestant librarian in County Mayo , 1930–1 . |
| 3 | ‘ I had insisted all along that we could not return until that was the case and that having waited so long , waiting a little longer would not matter . |
| 4 | As was the case with the West Coast main line , the Great Western sub-sector was also badly affected by recession , but the decline at the start of the decade was matched by a spectacular recovery which started from the second half of the 1980s . |
| 5 | This was the case with Marjorie , who 'd just accepted voluntary retirement after 20 years in her office . |
| 6 | In fact , the opposite was the case ; the grafts became green . |
| 7 | Although he failed to check it had been accident-free , he assured the lady that this was the case . |
| 8 | At least that was the case in Britain , where the gap between petrol and diesel fuel prices has always been small . |
| 9 | Markets have learned to judge when one approach becomes incompatible with the other , as was the case in May last year when Mrs Thatcher effectively vetoed further attempts by Mr Lawson to hold the pound below DM3 . |
| 10 | The ruling would appear to permit the FBI to go into Panama and kidnap General Noriega , but when reporters asked President Bush yesterday morning if that was the case , he said : ‘ I 'm embarrassed to say I do n't know what ( the answer ) is . ’ |
| 11 | In fact the whole financial framework of NEP was shaky , and much of it was brought in piecemeal on ad hoc lines , as was the case with the vital currency reforms . |
| 12 | It was the case in Smolensk , and the position was very similar in Poltava , the guberniia to the southwest which we shall be visiting shortly . |
| 13 | The ‘ mature ’ writer not only survives those renunciations , they help constitute his art , an art which will always finally take priority over the plight of the other even if , as was the case with Gide , it also succeeds in mitigating it . |
| 14 | People are seen as being more selfish , aggressive , and less tolerant and happy than was the case a decade ago . |
| 15 | Yet it is not obvious that this was the case . |
| 16 | Where large scale production existed it was carried out by slaves , as was the case with gold mining in the Asante kingdom . |
| 17 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 18 | Equally important is the distinction Marx repeatedly draws between the occurrence of small-scale ‘ domestic ’ slavery and whole societies based on the exploitation of slaves , such as was the case for Greece and Rome , and the insistence that these two cases should be kept separate . |
| 19 | This in fact seems to be very much the situation which anthropologists have found in pre-capitalist systems , and this was the case with the Malagasy people I studied . |
| 20 | There was the case , for example , of a five-year-old boy who was taken to hospital vomiting violently and with a high temperature . |
| 21 | It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models . |
| 22 | Such was the case at Manchester City in 1905–6 . |
| 23 | Even to speak of those by-now famous evenings as a coterie is to imply that they were both more formal and more enclosed than was the case . |
| 24 | If the affirmative was the case in all three , do n't feel ashamed . |
| 25 | If the affirmative was the case in all three , do n't feel ashamed . |
| 26 | The difficulties arise when joint production with the US is involved , as was the case with the ABCA Mallard trunk communication system , or when outright US purchases of British manufactured weapons , like Rapier , are contemplated . |
| 27 | Would that this was the case . |
| 28 | But even if this was the case , it would be no justification for the party 's boycott of the province . |
| 29 | Typical of these arrests was the case of Isobel Brown . |
| 30 | Within this scheme of thought , anything which can not be controlled is labelled dangerous and marginal , particularly when society is working to preserve its unity and to develop more sophisticated systems of self-definition , as was the case for the Jewish community in Palestine following the exile . |