Example sentences of "[verb] been the case [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 2 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |
| 3 | The frets are Jim Dunlop 6230 medium size and have been finished quite nicely , with no sharp edges protruding over the fingerboard , as has been the case on some Ibanez guitars in the past . |
| 4 | On the whole , therefore , researching the RUC has been more difficult than has been the case in most other studies in the sociology of policing ( for an exception see Punch 1989 ) , precisely because of the sensitivity of the topic in its social context . |
| 5 | And as we saw in our review of the history of delinquency , this has been the case throughout this century . |
| 6 | This being the case , people will feel able to hold smaller money balances in relation to their planned spending than would have been the case without such substitutes . |
| 7 | Matters would have been made that much simpler had the guild clerk also been the parish clerk and it might well have been the case in some instances . |
| 8 | With a round of state elections taking place on Nov. 8 , Salinas 's apparent acknowledgement of the electoral fraud issue stimulated rather than placated opposition protests ( as had been the case on those recent occasions when Salinas had been seen to intervene to remove victorious PRI candidates accused of gross electoral fraud — see pp. 38385 ; 38524 ; 38716 ; 38905 ; 39136 ) . |