Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [adv] [art] case " in BNC.

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1 It is well established that any Palestinian delegates must be acceptable to all parties : if this were not already the case , the Palestinian delegation would be made up of PLO members .
2 This was n't yet a case for the police , least of all for him .
3 However , in the distant history of the Papacy this was n't always the case .
4 This was even more the case , since our losses were again relatively small .
5 For other members of the department , some of whom were less aware than Joanne of what they were trying to achieve via the new approach , this was even more the case .
6 This was no longer the case .
7 This was no longer the case .
8 The success of the party 's resistance to Home Rule had been founded on absolute faith that it was the most important issue , but by 1914 this was no longer the case .
9 In some cases this was rather literally the case — the syrupy domestic interiors beloved of German nineteenth-century painters began to reappear with pictures of the Fuhrer on the wall and the Volkischer Beobachter lying folded on the table .
10 Birds and cats , as everyone knows , do not normally hit it off , and when Dawn met our cat , Jasper , this was most definitely the case .
11 said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt .
12 However , this was not exclusively the case .
13 This most frequently benefited Gloucester , as the dominant lord , but this was not invariably the case and the ducal councillor Edmund Hastings of Pickering placed one of his sons in Northumberland 's household .
14 This most frequently benefited Gloucester , as the dominant lord , but this was not invariably the case and the ducal councillor Edmund Hastings of Pickering placed one of his sons in Northumberland 's household .
15 This was not invariably the case .
16 It may then be that today situations where men alone are priests , or equally the fact that Christ is a male symbol and God is conceptualized using male metaphors , may make God appear to be ‘ male ’ in a way in which this was not earlier the case .
17 Scarlet admitted that if this was not precisely the case , there was yet room for considering it probable : she had often found difficulty in summoning the aid of the force , being directed by a controller to different stations which in turn would advise her to try elsewhere .
18 This was not quite a case of the bitten getting up and rewarding the biter because Kent exposed Hollwyood , which is not quite the British movie industry .
19 I had to say that this was not always the case !
20 While the demand for ‘ great economy ’ meant that Dissenting Gothic became a byword for machine-produced , dull buildings , this was not always the case .
21 This was not always the case in the old system with overlong agendas and items which did not invite or need discussion .
22 This was not always the case .
23 Although John Stork International became , to all intents and purposes , a pure search business , this was not always the case , and it still maintains other interests , including two management assessment firms , who employ several psychologists .
24 In the practical working out of UN policy the UN has to be regarded as a vehicle of American foreign policy ; this was not always the case and the Americans criticised aspects of the functioning of the UN in Korea and especially the attitudes of individual members of UN commissions .
25 This was not always the case .
26 But I knew this was not always the case .
27 This was not always the case .
28 This was not always the case .
29 In some cases , copies were held in both locations , i.e. the Main and departmental libraries , but this was not always the case .
30 This was not always the case .
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