Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] especially [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was especially the case if it appeared that government legislation was being flouted . |
| 2 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 3 | This was especially the case with regard to the use of music : a memorial in Union Chapel referred to his ‘ successful endeavours to promote a nobler service of song in public worship ’ . |
| 4 | The Catechism was considerably in advance of the thinking of average Nonconformists in England and Wales and reflected more the thinking of the self-appointed leaders than the followers ; this was especially the case in the section on the church in which it emphatically taught the existence of a visible Christian Church and not an invisible ‘ union ’ of believers , a very ‘ high ’ doctrine . |
| 5 | The second area where Teetotalism strengthened the Anglo-American bond lay in visits between leaders from both countries and this was especially the case with the Rev. Lyman Beecher who visited England in 1846 and stayed with the publisher , John Cassell , in his St John s Wood house . |
| 6 | This was especially the case among the well-to-do , who had ample space for guests and the means to travel . |
| 7 | This was especially the case when the relationship between lord and vassal was somewhat remote , either because the vassal was virtually independent of his lord , as were most of the vassals of the king of France , or because the vassal had many different lords . |
| 8 | This was especially the case among the early Oriental religions for whom the moon appeared in a cloudless sky as a thing of immense beauty and mystery . |
| 9 | This was especially the case when pragmatism was conjoined to a legal positivist outlook . |
| 10 | This was especially the case in B , where staff were considered unapproachable , and where students were expected to work individually at labs : |
| 11 | This was especially the case in the market . |