Example sentences of "not [art] case " in BNC.
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| 31 | Which is also to say that it is not the case that there is no connection , or that a category mistake is involved in the mere comparison . |
| 32 | Sadly , such is not the case . |
| 33 | Thus , although it might be useful to remember a particular telephone number ( and so convert a short-term into a long-term memory ) , this is often not the case and we are unlikely to want to remember every hand of cards . |
| 34 | Minto airily spoke of being worth £1,000 and able to raise a further £2,000 as a mortgage , but this was not the case . |
| 35 | * It is categorically not the case that Lewis had ‘ always wanted to attack the practice ’ of sacramental confession ‘ whenever he found it , This strange assertion ( among many other inaccuracies ) occurs in Clive Staples Lewis : A Dramatic life , by William Griffin . |
| 36 | That was not the case when Denis Nilsen lived there . |
| 37 | There was a drowsiness and calm about the ward , which I guessed was not the case at all times of the day . |
| 38 | This is not the case with thermoluminescence ( TL ) dating , which requires several grams of pottery . |
| 39 | That is not the case . |
| 40 | While the General Strike might be viewed as a watershed by some historians who feel that the trade union position worsened considerably after 1926 , this was clearly not the case ; trade unions were less frequently attacked by employers after 1926 than before and the pace of wage reductions slowed considerably . |
| 41 | This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically . |
| 42 | That is not the case . |
| 43 | It is not the case that social dislocation and uncertainty necessarily make people turn to God . |
| 44 | Of course , this is possible but there is good reason to suppose that it is not the case . |
| 45 | It assumes a major difference in interest between the founders and the younger men and that , as will be argued , is not the case . |
| 46 | O'Neill tried to argue that this was not the case and lost . |
| 47 | This is not the case with me . |
| 48 | But if — and that was the general fear — that was not the case , then it was time to stop all the futile talk of coming retaliation and to end the war as soon as possible . |
| 49 | However , it has been shown that this is not the case . |
| 50 | I quickly realised that that 's not the case at all , they do it to everybody . |
| 51 | Indeed , we know for certain that this was sometimes not the case . |
| 52 | This might have been the case in France or West Germany ; but , as the administration rapidly found out , it was not the case in the United States . |
| 53 | Zuwaya claimed that a nervous young conscript lost control and began firing his submachine gun ; if that was not the case , Zuwaya said , at any rate the fighting had begun accidentally . |
| 54 | Once again this was not the case . |
| 55 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 56 | Thus it is not the case that each retinal cell connects to one cell , and one cell only , in the visual cortex . |
| 57 | ‘ We 've always assumed that the country has enough water but the shortages of the last three or four years have shown this is not the case , ’ said Dr Neil Johnston , author of the report . |
| 58 | After another round of serious negotiations the ARC finally agreed to release the report , the hard statistical evidence , but not the case studies , the interpretation of which they did not consider to be ‘ objective . ’ |
| 59 | Obviously , that was not the case but it may be that Viola was so used to people thinking like that about her that she felt a need to assert herself as well . |
| 60 | This would be an enormous waste management headache if all of this went into ‘ throwaway ’ products , but luckily this is not the case : although packaging is the biggest single consuming sector , accounting for 33 per cent , construction materials take out 20 per cent of the total . |