Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] that [prep] [adj] case " in BNC.

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1 I argued that in most cases it was quite clear that the projects officers had not paid any serious attention to gender issues .
2 I suspect that in many cases — and perhaps in that of my hon. Friend because , as he said , he has a severe cold — it is a matter for commiseration .
3 And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy .
4 I assume that in each case time in custody before trial is counted as part of the period before the first review .
5 it has n't cropped up here , but I understand that in other cases where you 've double insurance from two life companies , that two life companies would split the actual benefit fifty-fifty , so it would n't actually be deducting the whole amount , would it , because Abbey Life would still ha , Abbey Life would still have to pay
6 Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others .
7 As my legs and arms suddenly felt shaky like they were going to give way , I decided that in this case ignorance would indeed have been bliss .
8 I think that in any case technological developments ensure that there is no point in trying to propagandize or conceal , because people have access to the truth — at least , in theory they have access to more data that will enable them to determine what the truth of a matter is — through satellites , facsimiles , etc .
9 Looking back over them , I see that in many cases the same underlying tension is addressed in different ways .
10 If then you say that in such cases the mind thinks , I would only draw your attention to the fact that you are using a metaphor , that here the mind is an agent in a different sense from that in which the hand can be said to be the agent in writing .
11 ‘ Are you saying that in this case he 's playing a game of his own ? ’
12 She knew they had different fathers and she knew that in each case there was only a certain number of possibilities , but beyond that all was obscure .
13 She said that in any case , ‘ she was not given to crying ’ .
14 We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions .
15 If we accept that in extreme cases certain babies should be allowed to die , we place doctors in a moral dilemma ; there is a line to be crossed , a choice to be made .
16 We know that in these cases we often do face a real choice of evils and we have to find some way of deciding which of these evils is the worst .
17 Because the need for high PIP remained unchanged , we believe that in these cases there was preferential distribution of surfactant into one lung exposing that side to increased barotrauma .
18 If we agree that in that case women should be embraced by the liberty principle then so should children .
19 When , however , in one district , private hospitals attempted to provide data they found that in most cases they could not identify patients ' districts of residence ( S Israel , personal communication ) .
20 Indeed they felt that in many cases children who experienced difficulties in learning responded particularly well .
21 They argue that in some cases parents ' contribution depends on their ‘ tenacity , willingness to fight for their rights and a belief in their children 's educational capacity ’ .
22 He says that in previous cases where they 've taken over contracts they 've offered up to 98 per cent of employees their jobs back .
23 He says that in this case the father clearly had substantial rights of ‘ access ’ which could only be exercised in Kingston .
24 He acknowledged that in some cases it could be hundreds of pounds extra but argued that people would still be allowed to go to law .
25 And it alleges that in some cases traffic is being severely disrupted on the busy road after cars have been covered in slime dragged up from the river bed .
26 It appears that in this case , at least , the avoidance of the deadly prey is inborn .
27 Though it stated its hope that planning authorities would allocate sufficient land , it warned that in some cases it might have to take the initiative and , if local authorities refused planning permission , go to appeal .
28 Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form .
29 It seems that in some cases the answer is yes , even though no characteristic elements of segmental phonology have been found which distinguish black Londoners ' speech from that of other Londoners .
30 Indeed , it seems that in some cases an interpretation in terms of emphasis is quite inappropriate .
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