Example sentences of "[adj] case [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | But what Sheriff Irvine Smith has , with compelling cause shown , denied us in his Introduction he has amply redeemed in the justiciary cases he has placed before us and in his commentary thereon . |
2 | In any event , if you ca n't manage a simpler case you are surely not going to succeed with the more difficult one . |
3 | In each case they inevitably begin to denigrate their opposite numbers for not doing ‘ real police work ’ . |
4 | A number of rarer departures from Mendel 's laws were found , and in each case they were able to find a corresponding abnormality in the chromosomes , of precisely the kind required to explain the genetic findings . |
5 | Even for the three vertebrate cases , the ways in which the wing is constructed are quite different , although in each case they are modifications of the same fundamental structure , the pentadactyl limb . |
6 | In all three studies , the children were selected to be as representative as possible and in each case they were asked to perform exhaustive intelligence tests and behavioural exercises . |
7 | In each case they have proved a potentially effective instrument for channelling productive local suggestions and for achieving sensible modifications in centrally designed materials . |
8 | In each case they run between the intersegmental folds or antecostae of successive segments . |
9 | In each case they vary by only 0.002 millimetres . |
10 | Automatic systems usually have an in-feed/out-feed conveyor and sufficient forklift trucks to feed the system — again in each case they are not operating within the crane and storage area . |
11 | They did find high incidence of eye diseases among local animals , but in each case they concluded that the most likely cause was infection from a common pathogen . |
12 | Asked about BBC1 and 2 , ITV and Channel 4 , more than two-thirds of respondents in the ITC study said in each case they had not been offended by the channel in question . |
13 | The methodological focus of this chapter is to learn techniques for dealing with the relationship between two interval level variables ; such data is often called paired , X - Y data , since for each case we have a pair of values which we want to display together . |
14 | In each case we may trace from them important effects on learning in schools today on the curriculum plans , on policy and programmes for teacher training and , most significant , on the attitudes of teachers themselves and of those who train them . |
15 | In each case we can choose a scale above which the material may be considered homogeneous , but below which the structure needs to be considered . |
16 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
17 | The temptation to equate the two positions relies apparently on two things : on the fact that in each case we have an adjective and a noun or noun phrase , and on the supposition that attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives all share the referential locus of the head noun to which they are related . |
18 | In each case she argues that female creativity has been constructed by men as a contradiction in terms . |
19 | In each case it was he who sent ‘ the flying prince ’ away , beside making another try and dropping a goal in England 's sensational 13–0 victory . |
20 | In each case it is the lack of understanding which constitutes the inauthenticity of either the faith or the doubt . |
21 | In each case it is elderly people living alone who obtain the most support from the state , and among them men receive slightly more than women . |
22 | The actual form of organisation adopted was by no means standardised but in each case it was subject to direct political control [ Chester , 1975 ] . |
23 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |
24 | In each case it is the woman and her conduct that the man 's lawyers will try to put on trial . |
25 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
26 | Thus if a policeman gives directions to a traveller , a doctor tells a nurse how to administer medicine to a patient , a householder puts in an insurance claim , a shop assistant explains the relative merits of two types of knitting wool , or a scientist describes an experiment , in each case it matters that the speaker should make what he says ( or writes ) clear . |
27 | In each case it is submitted that the sentences have to be quashed because there was unreasonable delay in giving the appellant a copy of the committal order , which in each case contained particulars of the facts found as constituting a contempt of court . |
28 | In each case it was a duty which was imposed on the judges in their capacity as judges of the superior courts and related to the administration of justice in those courts . |
29 | In each case it had in effect been ruled that Gen Robertson 's order of 14 May would apply , and that 5 Corps could continue with arrangements already entered into hand over both Cossacks and Yugoslavs but only in each case , so lob as force did not have to be used . |
30 | In each case it may be possible to print out target costs against each subsection and therefore quantify any profit or loss . |