Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | If this were not so a plaintiff could , by seeking mandamus , evade the restrictive rule that an action in tort for an injunction to restrain breach of statutory duty will lie only if the duty is owed to the plaintiff individually because , as we have seen , the applicant for mandamus only needs to have a ‘ sufficient interest ’ in the performance of the duty . |
| 3 | If this were not so the risk of doing something new would not be justified . |
| 4 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 5 | She wondered darkly if all this was n't just a waste of time , when they should be out hunting for clues to Benny 's whereabouts . |
| 6 | This was n't yet a case for the police , least of all for him . |
| 7 | However , in the distant history of the Papacy this was n't always the case . |
| 8 | This was even more the case , since our losses were again relatively small . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But this was no longer a time for words . |
| 11 | This was no longer the case . |
| 12 | This was no longer the case . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This was no longer an affront to the public conscience , where the suicide resulted from mental instability . |
| 15 | This was pretty clearly an attempt to nudge the Americans towards saying yes to an aid programme for the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | This was pretty certainly an exaggeration , but it shows unmistakably that the Black Country ( though this name had yet to be invented ) was in process of creation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was most probably a reflection of the common grazing systems found in those areas where all farmers were accustomed to working together . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A mile or two from the front line , troops entered the first communication trenches ; though to call them this was generally both an exaggeration and an anachronism . |
| 21 | This was not just a problem for women in printing : it was one by all women who were drawn into industrial trades just as mechanization was creating a new division of labour . |
| 22 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 23 | This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas . |
| 24 | El-Gharbi seemed to feel under no pressure at all to reduce his asking figure , and Owen felt that this was not just a matter of negotiating tactics . |
| 25 | This was not just a bishop married to the see and people of Durham , it was a love-marriage . |
| 26 | But this was not just the effect of slower markets and smaller volumes on commission and fee income . |
| 27 | But this was not just the effect of Stalin per se , despite his perverse attraction as a sort of singular-universal who did in effect unite ‘ man ’ with ‘ history ’ : it was also the result of the theoretical collapse of the singular-universal as a totalizing concept that could save history from the aberrant consequences of anti-labour . |
| 28 | This was not just an effect of small scale distribution , but perhaps particularly due to their explicit problematisation of realism and of the conventional pleasures of cinema-viewing within the film text . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , this was not simply a conflict between radical process and radical content . |