Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We figured that we could bring in artists from the '90s to interpret Hendrix using the computer technology that was only a dream in the '60s , ’ explains Storey . |
| 2 | The concern about declining councillor calibre embodies a bitter lament that a variety of changes have conspired to result in a situation in which there is now a less close and direct relationship between economic power , social status , and the political control of local government than was once the case in the Victorian age when local government enjoyed the leadership of businessmen and local notables . |
| 3 | Even colonies which did not have direct religious origins would have religious commitments ; Virginia had been launched in as secular-minded a mood as almost any colony but it remained firmly attached to the forms of the Church of England , though the lack of regular episcopal organization made its clergy more responsive to the wishes of their congregations than was usually the case in England . |
| 4 | The British rejection weakened the force of the proposal and was probably a factor in its slow progress . |
| 5 | The failure of the pope to pronounce on this matter until 798 meant a dangerous delay for Coenwulf and was probably a factor in his desire for an archbishopric at London , but the papal judgement when it came gave him a free hand and made London as an archiepiscopal see dispensable . |
| 6 | In October 1626 he had been drafted on to the loan commission for Yorkshire , and was also a commissioner in June 1627 to finance shipbuilding using recusancy fines , which commissions were headed by Sir John Savile ( later first Baron Savile of Pontefract , q.v . ) . |
| 7 | At the start of the war he had taken up his old rank of captain and was now a major in the King 's African Rifles . |
| 8 | The same argument could be used to suppress the reporting of all crime that involved human behaviour ( as was frequently the case in the old Soviet empire ) . |
| 9 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 10 | In Malaysia , Sabah and Sarawak were expected to have almost no virgin forest left by the end of the century , as was already the case in Thailand and the Philippines . |
| 11 | As was always the case in the ballet de cour , the cast included both professional and aristocratic performers approximately 30 of each in 76 different roles . |