Example sentences of "the case [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journalists challenging the High Court ruling at yesterday 's hearing said they would pursue the case through to the European Court . |
| 2 | ‘ The files record each stage of the case up to the final decision by the Commander-in-Chief . |
| 3 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 4 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 5 | The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 12 upheld the August 1990 conviction of former DC mayor Marion Barry for cocaine possession , but referred the case back to the original trial judge for resentencing , on the grounds that the judge had not given sufficient explanation for his decision in October to impose a sentence of six months ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | To refer the case back to the same solicitor who has reported that the case can not now be won , or refer it to a different lawyer ? |