Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] not [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 the risk of doing something new would not be justified . |
| 3 | But this was not just the effect of slower markets and smaller volumes on commission and fee income . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , this was not exclusively the case . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was not invariably the case . |
| 10 | For the literate group of women who might be expected to read magazines , this was in fact a transitional period : freed to a greater extent than ever before from the shadow of death , this was not yet the time of the educated lay interest in infant psychology which was soon to be aroused by Montessori , Froebel , Susan Isaacs and the Freudians generally ; nor had the hygienist movement yet got under way . |
| 11 | This was not only the place , this was the Time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This was not quite the end , however ; there were one or two loose ends to be tidied up . |
| 15 | I had to say that this was not always the case ! |
| 16 | While the demand for ‘ great economy ’ meant that Dissenting Gothic became a byword for machine-produced , dull buildings , this was not always the case . |
| 17 | This was not always the case in the old system with overlong agendas and items which did not invite or need discussion . |
| 18 | This was not always the case . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was not always the case . |
| 22 | But I knew this was not always the case . |
| 23 | This was not always the case . |
| 24 | This was not always the case . |
| 25 | In some cases , copies were held in both locations , i.e. the Main and departmental libraries , but this was not always the case . |
| 26 | This was not always the case . |
| 27 | This was not always the case , however , and one still finds some listed companies with non-voting equity . |
| 28 | The Marine clenched his own fist which seemed almost as large as any boy 's head , though this was not actually the case . |
| 29 | this was not usually the case with ancient coin series . |
| 30 | It is clear that this was not necessarily the case . |