Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] [art] case " in BNC.
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1 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
2 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
3 | InteCalc claims that pressing the right arrow key will scroll through the currently available files but this was n't the case on my sample . |
4 | But erm er so I thought that was er so that was the only thing that I would actually pick up on there erm and the one thing I noticed this time , and you did n't , I mean this was n't the case when you did erm the role play this morning , but this time , and I do n't know whether it was because you had less confidence with what , with actual talking about the product , but you had very little eye contact with Maggie . |
5 | This was also the case around the turn of the century , when the emerging labour movement often used local political activity in particular strongholds such as East London and Sheffield to promote its aims and objectives long before it reached the national political stage . |
6 | This was also the case when external or internal politics , rather than commercial performance , seemed to be becoming a yardstick in financial allocations between Boards . |
7 | This was also the case with products whose instructions did n't recommend machine washing . |
8 | It emerged that in the magistrates ' courts the distribution of sentences did not differ greatly between Blacks and Whites , and this was also the case in the Crown Court . |
9 | This was also the case when we asked about whether the police discri-minated against certain groups , two-thirds of Blacks and Whites believing this but only about one-third of Asians . |
10 | This was also the case in Cuba , where Fidel Castro led his 26 July guerrilla movement to power in 1959 and declared his formal adherence to Marxism-Leninism in 1961 . |
11 | This was also the case with the housekeeper , Elizabeth Hinson , who had looked after the Vicarage and who died in a nursing home about a year before these lines were written . |
12 | It was subsequently shown that this was also the case for intestinal secretion caused by the heat stable enterotoxin from Escherichia coli , certain bile salts , ricinoleic acid , serotonin , and prostaglandin E 2 ( for reviews consult Lundgren et al and Jodal ) . |
13 | This was also the case for three other enzymes , epoxide hydrolase , glutathione S-transferase α , and glutathione S-transferase π , where all the tumours showed positive immunoreactivity . |
14 | This was also the case where contributory negligence was established before 1945 . |
15 | A small number of comments were not coded , this was generally the case when a comment did not refer to any potential or actual driving event , for example ‘ Have to remain vigilant ’ or ‘ Maintaining a steady speed ’ . |
16 | In Madrid , the new government of General Prim was equally aware that their actions would need to avoid giving offence to France and that this was particularly the case when it came to choosing a new monarch to replace the dethroned Isabella . |
17 | This was particularly the case with sociological theories where such judgements were , inevitably , politically loaded . |
18 | This was particularly the case with Williamson who used the vehicle of his vast epic The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight to develop his most mature insights into the nature of the war . |
19 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
20 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
21 | This was particularly the case amongst many of the female students , several of whom expressed anxiety about handling machinery or breaking expensive equipment ( unlike Paul , who was able to make jokes about it ) : |
22 | This was particularly the case when Marcia Williams , having been powerfully lobbied by Arnold Wesker , was determined to persuade Harold Wilson to bestow some extra support on ‘ Centre 42 ’ , which was Wesker 's notion of an organisation to supervise the growth of the arts in this country . |
23 | This was particularly the case where the occupational community provided him with a rural counter-culture that enabled class antagonisms to be sustained , albeit in a hidden form . |
24 | This was particularly the case after the extinction of the patriarchate of Peć in 1766 . |
25 | This was particularly the case before World War I , but marriage remained the normative expectation of women of all classes to the end of the period . |
26 | This was particularly the case with his Class A applications , where twenty-one days was far too short a period for effective publicity , let alone considered public reaction . |
27 | Jean Southworth , QC , in mitigation , said : ‘ This was not a case of him taking away the virginity of this young woman . |
28 | He added that this was not a case for a free pardon because — wait for it — there was no proof that Cooper and McMahon were innocent . |
29 | watched — observed — reflected and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude and resignation only . |
30 | Pierburg then sought to obtain photographs of a car which was situated in California , and it was held ( plainly correctly ) that this was not a case of evidence being obtained ‘ abroad ’ and so the Convention was inapplicable . |