Example sentences of "[adj] a case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this a case of folie de grandeur , in which Britain 's economic recovery was sacrificed to anachronistic ( and unsocialist ? ) attempts to retain a great power stance in the world ? |
| 2 | But is this a case of all hype and no substance ? |
| 3 | Is this a case of clever marketing aimed at diversifying one product to fit two market groups — the ‘ poor cat owner buying cheap and nasty cat litter and the ‘ elite ’ fishkeeper buying state of the art filter media . |
| 4 | I do n't think it matters whether or not we call this a case of my distinguishing myself from others . |
| 5 | half a case . |
| 6 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 7 | What they learn in such a case is , of course , only a rule of thumb ; for if criticism sometimes has to be prescriptive , its prescriptions are never applicable except ‘ by and large ’ . |
| 8 | But Ramsey , who had come to love Halifax , wanted what Halifax wanted ; in such a case , in his view , the law does not care about trivialities . |
| 9 | In such a case the court has power to stop the prosecution in its tracks . |
| 10 | According to the conventional thinking , what matters in such a case is the allocation of property rights . |
| 11 | The recent Supreme Court decision involves just such a case . |
| 12 | In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all . |
| 13 | In such a case , if the wife contracted as agent for her husband , and disclosed that fact to the shop , she incurs no personal liability . |
| 14 | Escheat has been abolished , and all property in such a case devolves on the Crown as bona vacantia . |
| 15 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 16 | Such a case occurred at Kirkcaldy in 1828 . |
| 17 | Such a case emerges from the diary of my great-grandfather , James Taylor , who was a doctor as well as an Evangelical . |
| 18 | Henry Cecil records such a case : |
| 19 | In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way . |
| 20 | Although a conviction is perfectly possible where no harm results — and such a case might still be regarded as a most serious non-fatal offence , since D tried to cause death , and the subjective principles confirm the high guilt — there are also cases where D's attempt to kill results in serious injury to the victim . |
| 21 | As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it . |
| 22 | They knew , we knew and the police knew that the chance of such a case finding its way into the overloaded court system was minimal . |
| 23 | Such a case is shown ( Fig. 2b ) for hydrogen chemisorbed on W{211} , where the probe was a Ne+ beam . |
| 24 | I have in fairness to say that there is no hard evidence for this ; but it seems possible that if such a case of misidentification had occurred , it would not readily be admitted . |
| 25 | But does theism have to make such a case ? |
| 26 | In such a case , however , it is still possible to recognize much in his poetry that is a response to his origins . |
| 27 | In such a case the discrimination would be direct . |
| 28 | The coroner 's Proceedings were once again opened at Reading Magistrates ' Court in Valpy Street , the coroner 's court deemed too small for such a case . |
| 29 | ‘ Pulling the plug ’ in such a case is significant from a medical-legal point of view . |
| 30 | There is no doubt that in such a case , given the necessary knowledge and intent , the person turning off the machine would be guilty of murder . |