Example sentences of "it the case " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather dubious sources for these two modes of production explains the fact that the German and the Slavonic ( if there is one ) are characterized by a name demoting an ethnic or linguistic group and not a relation of production , as it the case for the capitalist mode of production . |
| 2 | Nor is it the case that the Federal Republic is using the issue of democratic accountability to drag its feet on EMU . |
| 3 | ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’ |
| 4 | And is n't it the case that real MOR — the stuff that sells , boys — has words that are anodyne too , that reinforce commonsense views of normality and ( human ) nature ? |
| 5 | But let us ask again : Is it the case that moral qualities can not be transferred ? |
| 6 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 7 | Is it the case that the rural sector is undergoing a process of proletarianisation or peasantisation ? |
| 8 | Neither is it the case that this is a facet of capitalistic conspiratorial machinations , a spatial rubric of the principles of divide and rule . |
| 9 | Was it the case that an all-embracing unity replaced separate and finite things ? |
| 10 | Nor is it the case that in saying ‘ I promise to meet you ’ I am merely giving expression to — or reporting or describing — an inward , mental act . |
| 11 | If the latter , is it the case that we are acquainted with the concepts of trumping and revoking through attending to these feelings , and have somehow managed to devise a game with activities which are as perfect an expression of them as , say , Pablo Picasso 's 1937 painting of a Weeping Woman is an expression of grief ? |
| 12 | Is n't it the case that Palmerston when he was on his death bed had the clause to the Belgian treaty read to him to cheer him up . |
| 13 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |
| 14 | Nor is it the case that we in fact need a vehicle , a mythological story to carry our awareness of God , of the kind which has been fabricated in the west . |
| 15 | then this apparently gratuitous belief makes it the case again that I know that I will be given a lift . |
| 16 | We might suggest that in conceiving the rule for + 2 , we somehow already conceived all the instances , and this is what makes it the case that the ‘ correct ’ interpretation is correct . |
| 17 | But that meaning is not determinate enough to be able to adjudicate between rival translations , so as to make it the case that at most one is right ( though we may never be able to tell which ) . |
| 18 | It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally . |
| 19 | Is it the case that all communication within a species should be treated as though it were part of selfish manipulation ? |
| 20 | Is collusion indeed ever really ‘ tacit ’ , or is it the case that what may appear to be tacit collusion is actually explicit collusion in which the process of agreement is simply concealed ? |
| 21 | Is it the case , as Sartre maintains , that communism and the novel are incompatible ? |
| 22 | Or , on the contrary , is it the case , as Nizan maintains , that communism and the novel are ultimately reconcilable ? |
| 23 | Third , do parties put forward programmes of policies that are " different " and offer a real choice , and is it the case that the winning party carries out its programme if elected to office ? |
| 24 | Is n't it the case though that people in Kent , offenders in Kent , have become used to the idea that cautioning will be the norm ? |
| 25 | Is not it the case that the sooner the Government face a general election and are defeated , the sooner small firms will have a decent chance in the economy ? |
| 26 | Is not it the case that the present underlying rate of inflation in the United Kingdom is 5.5 per cent . |
| 27 | Although I agree with the Minister that empty properties could be used to house homeless people , is not it the case that until capital receipts are released from the sale of council properties , councils will not have the resources to put properties back into use for people who need them ? |
| 28 | Is not it the case that we do not have widely available anywhere near the diversity of potatoes that is available in other countries , such as the United States ? |
| 29 | Is it the case that he merely dismisses those submissions with which he does not agree and proceeds in an autocratic fashion ? |
| 30 | Is not it the case that the European Commission , through the THERMIE programme , would back Bilsthorpe only if it was certain to go ahead , and that the only way to ensure that was through Government support ? |