Example sentences of "[subord] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The frequencies obtained in longitudinal or in torsional vibrations are harmonically related to each other , as was not the case in flexural vibration ( the vibrating reed ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |