Example sentences of "it was [adv] [art] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 2 | It was clearly a case of arson , but the motive was puzzling at first . |
| 3 | The ecumenical movement had become better established and although it would be an exaggeration to say that the major Protestant denominations were heavily committed to a ‘ Romeward trend ’ , it was clearly the case that many church leaders were seeking better relations with the Roman Church . |
| 4 | It was nevertheless the case that the Crimean War represented a far greater crisis than that with which the reign had begun . |
| 5 | The contracting industry of the 1950s had not nurtured new talent or new ideas , as happened in the 1930s and 1940s , so that , apart from the Free Cinema directors , it was mostly a case of the same old people trying to make films . |
| 6 | It was generally the case that working-class loyalists , especially those connected with the paramilitary organizations , fared less well in the election than more ‘ respectable ’ loyalists and Vanguard had a larger number of such candidates than the DUP . |
| 7 | As their heroin use continued , it was generally the case that consumption increased . |
| 8 | ‘ That was not a simple case of a husband obtaining a document from his wife ; it was also a case where the document had been obtained by a trustee from his cestui que trust by means of pressure and the concealment of material facts … |
| 9 | It was also the case that the conversion of the population to the market philosophy needed direction on a massive scale . |
| 10 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 11 | It was also the case for a small number of women with children who felt isolated because their social horizons were constrained by domestic and family expectations . |
| 12 | Consider also if cc occurred then , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was also the case that e occurred-which is the first part of the independent conditional in ( 5 ) . |
| 13 | It was also the case in the very unmilitary Dutch Republic ; and in the Habsburg territories the Kriegskommissariat set up in 1657 and reformed by Haugwitz in the 1740s was made up largely of civilians . |
| 14 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
| 15 | Broad , Gower and Lamb fell in quick succession and then it was just a case of mopping up . |
| 16 | For most English people it was just a case of sighing with relief that it was all over . |
| 17 | It was just a case that being in a band would be much more enjoyable without him . |
| 18 | Thereafter it was just a case of hard riding the thirty miles through green Lothian , by Hailes and Haddington and Musselburgh , for Edinburgh , which he reached before nightfall . |
| 19 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 20 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 21 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 22 | ‘ It was just a case of finding who they were . ’ |
| 23 | and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again . |
| 24 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 25 | so when I got there it was just a case of clearing up . |
| 26 | At the same time it was doubtless the case that by-employments , which were probably the rule rather than the exception , were decisive in bringing the level of wealth in districts unfavourable to husbandry more or less into line with that of the more eligible farming regions . |
| 27 | Of Oswald 's dealings with the eastern Angles nothing is known , but it was probably the case that Anna , son of Eni , Raedwald 's nephew ( HE 11 , 15 : III , 18 ) , was established as king of the eastern Angles with northern Anglian assistance . |
| 28 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 29 | For some , it was simply a case of combining the orthodox grammar-school curriculum with the much less precise curriculum of the secondary modern school , and hoping for the best . |
| 30 | At first there was no grand plan , it was simply a case of choosing who was around or who had been recommended by her new friends from Vogue . |