Example sentences of "[was/were] not [art] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 2 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 3 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 4 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 5 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 6 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 7 | Lastly , it is worth pointing out that that presence in the territory of the country of establishment must be intended to be permanent , or at least of an indefinite duration , because if that were not the case there would be no distinction between establishment and the supply of services . |
| 8 | Public business could not be carried on if that were not the case . |
| 9 | If this were not the case and F t < E ( S T ) , a trader who bought a futures contract now and held it to delivery would , on average , make a profit of E ( S T ) - F t . |
| 10 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 11 | But suppose this were not the case . |
| 12 | If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins . |
| 13 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 14 | If that were not the case then we would n't have er public consultation exercise and ask for people 's views in terms of which routes they support . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side . |
| 16 | Jean Southworth , QC , in mitigation , said : ‘ This was not a case of him taking away the virginity of this young woman . |
| 17 | ‘ But once the authorities had clamped down , it was not a case of political Stalinism so much as bureaucratic perfidy and complete lack of imagination . |
| 18 | At that time it was not a case of wanting to return to work but having to . |
| 19 | He added that this was not a case for a free pardon because — wait for it — there was no proof that Cooper and McMahon were innocent . |
| 20 | It was not a case of a new breed of non-political owners coming to the fore but of ownership tempered by financial considerations and a changed attitude to the role of the newspapers in the ‘ reconstruction ’ of Britain . |
| 21 | watched — observed — reflected and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude and resignation only . |
| 22 | Pierburg then sought to obtain photographs of a car which was situated in California , and it was held ( plainly correctly ) that this was not a case of evidence being obtained ‘ abroad ’ and so the Convention was inapplicable . |
| 23 | Attorney-General v. Wilts United Dairies Ltd. ( 1921 ) 37 T.L.R. 884 was not a case concerned with the recovery of a payment unlawfully demanded . |
| 24 | 1184 , was not a case of a wife providing security for her husband 's debts . |
| 25 | 378 was not a case of autrefois convict in the strict sense . |
| 26 | As soon as she set eyes on Giles Carnaby again she knew that whatever it was it was not a case of cure ; her heart thumped , she felt unstable . |
| 27 | It was not a case of being almost heaven on skis at Argentiere but reborn . |
| 28 | As regards the registration document , it was not a case of obtaining consent by a trick ; he had obtained the possession by a trick but he had obtained no consent at all to that possession . |
| 29 | It was not a case of there not being any money , but simply that the Minister would not darn well apply it . |
| 30 | In passing sentence US District Judge Norman P. Ramsey told Clines that his " was not a case of misplaced patriotism ; it was purely a case of greed " . |