Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adv] [art] case " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes she had the strangest feeling he knew her better than she knew herself , and if that were truly the case then how on earth was she to go on protecting herself ? |
2 | If that were indeed the case their Englishness was certainly no impediment to involvement in a cosmopolitan , international world in which French speech and culture was dominant . |
3 | Certainly we had a minority of outright failures , whose grasp of their work was negligible , but that was generally the case . |
4 | Perhaps that was just a case where , in the early stages of the life-cycle , corporate managers acted more like private consumers than industrial purchasers of large-scale equipment . |
5 | S.B. agreed that if that was indeed the case it would be his duty to take part in it . |
6 | David said that was indeed the case . |
7 | That was certainly the case in 1990 when the Chancellor announced the introduction of TESSAs — Tax Exempt Special Savings Accounts . |
8 | On that night , that was certainly the case . |
9 | That was certainly the case in the 73rd minute when Hughes applied the killer blow . |
10 | That was certainly the case with Strike Force Three . |
11 | That was certainly the case until the early 1980s , but British miners then started to lose their jobs to imports . |
12 | That was apparently the case in Cleveland last week when an officer was knocked out by a concrete chunk thrown through a windscreen . |
13 | But that was basically a case of Bicourt doing the Board 's job . |
14 | Sometimes it 's just because we want our curiosity satisfied , and that was obviously the case with Nicodemus . |