Example sentences of "[prep] a case " in BNC.
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| 1 | She introduced a bill in 1989 , obliging the bar to consider a ban , after a case in which two women accused Marvin Mitchelson , a big-cheese divorce lawyer , of sexual assault ( he denied the charges and settled out of court ) . |
| 2 | In 1873 , after a case of murder in which the victim was a Rodi , the Assistant Government Agent at Nuvara Eliya commented that ‘ the victim was of the lowest caste , to which they [ the Sinhalese ] clearly believe that the principles of natural justice and law are not applicable . ’ |
| 3 | The admission by Hammersmith and Fulham was disclosed on the first day of a case brought by Anthony Hazell , the local district auditor . |
| 4 | The committee would be likely to consider a suggestion by Lord Donaldson that case separation might be needed where the public had an interest in the outcome of a case but it would also play a role as representative of those who actually used legal services , he said . |
| 5 | In ‘ The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman ’ Freud announces a newly discovered ‘ cause ’ of homosexuality , what he calls ‘ retiring in favour of someone else ’ . |
| 6 | The irrigation schemes in the Sudan , including the Gezira project , provide an example of a case where a poor response from tenant farmers , for a variety of reasons , has consistently dogged the major rehabilitation projects financed by the World Bank and other donors in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | Indeed , I recently heard of a case where some Catholic white children taunted a Catholic black child with the words , ‘ Are you one of those who were bought ? ’ |
| 8 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 9 | He went to bed to dream uneasily , and woke early as he always did in the early stages of a case before he had got the machine working properly . |
| 10 | Elisabeth stopped to examine the contents of a case containing the paraphernalia of marriage and its consummation , represented by illuminated bonds exchanged between families , and little crowns worn by the island brides . |
| 11 | There is more of a case for liberating animals from the wild when it seems that they will not meet the pitiless test of nature . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ The first time I heard of a case I could not believe it . |
| 13 | Social work inclination to try to verify the occurrence of sexual abuse was often at variance with the police desire to be involved as early as possible in the investigation of a case . |
| 14 | Five factors created difficulties : delays in passing on information ; competing professional objectives ( criminal investigation or assessment of child protection risk ) ; unrealistic expectations of the powers and responsibilities of social work departments ; disputes over control or management of a case ; and procedural inexperience . |
| 15 | The whole point and purpose of authorities , I shall argue below , is to pre-empt individual judgment on the merits of a case , and this will not be achieved if , in order to establish whether the authoritative determination is binding , individuals have to rely on their own judgment of the merits . |
| 16 | The example is of a case where the father should not , not where he can not , remain neutral . |
| 17 | Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron . |
| 18 | ‘ This is a real sod of a case , ’ Bragg remarked , as he sank into his chair and pulled out his pipe . |
| 19 | Should both sides of a case be heard before the postal ballot ? |
| 20 | Essentially , in an explanation of a case of soil erosion , there are two sets of specificity to be tackled - that of the physical system and that of the social/economic system , and they both have to be brought together and analytically integrated . |
| 21 | I once heard of a case where two dogs fought almost to the death over an empty sweet paper . |
| 22 | Luton headmaster Brian Round tells of a case where a teacher was accused of rape . |
| 23 | However , as a result of a case in which a determined executive fought a long battle through the courts , the position now appears to be more complicated than was once thought . |
| 24 | The ‘ unit of workload ’ can be a day in hospital , a diagnostic test or a particular procedure , but more recently has been in the form of a case . |
| 25 | More important is that this is the first example of a case in which a trust is set up using indirect words : the words are addressed to the trustee ; and they make the testator 's intentions plain enough , although they do not express any request for a transfer of property . |
| 26 | And George Brown in his hey-day was a most formidable and enchanting arguer of a case — candid to a fault . |
| 27 | Michael Aldrich does not make this mistake in Videotex , Key to the Wired City This is a glossy paperback , with popular appeal , which could well form the basis of a case study for my own man/computer systems class next year . |
| 28 | ‘ We know of a case where the driver abused the car because of a superstition — there was a number 13 on the number plate . ’ |
| 29 | They , and they alone , have the right to dispose of a case involving a child . |
| 30 | Thirdly , the parents themselves may appeal against the decision of the Panel in the disposal of a case . |