Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] case " in BNC.

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1 Specific topics addressed will include the attitudes of staff towards complaints and complainants , the degree of consistency in their responses , and the extent to which departments ‘ learn ’ from complaints for example , by reviewing policy or practice after an individual case or as a result of recognising patterns .
2 The format of the day was : morning session — a lecture on the forensic accountant as an expert witness in civil litigation , focusing on the preparation of the expert 's report and its aims and objectives , followed by a mock trial of a civil case ; afternoon session — a lecture on the role of the forensic accountant in criminal proceedings , focusing on the importance of the accountant in the investigative stage of the proceedings and the preparation of the expert 's report , followed by a mock trial of a criminal case .
3 Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death .
4 In the absence of a convincing case for the defence , we would undoubtedly require that the Indonesian authorities be seen to have cleaned up their act and that the New Tribes Mission be put out of business in South America and perhaps worldwide .
5 For an example of a recent case where agency was not established , see Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon [ 1986 ] Q.B .
6 On the night he came to Edinburgh , sitting up with Boswell in James 's Court until two o'clock in the morning , they talked of a recent case in which a murder , committed twenty years before , became a legal talking-point when the judges of Scotland allowed , as a plea , the length of time elapsed .
7 any part of a lower case letter extending above the x-height .
8 any part of a lower case letter that extends below the x-height , as in the case of y and j .
9 Even when intervention is compatible with official pay restraint policy , it may still be covert since politicians may not wish to take public responsibility for influencing the outcome of a specific case and prefer to see the opprobrium attached to management .
10 Bit of a hopeless case come to think of it .
11 This is the second time a court has ruled that press coverage of a controversial case has prevented a fair trial .
12 He was a small man , bald and beady-eyed and turkey-necked , and only in retrospect could she see that he 'd probably been something of a mental case as well .
13 This means that your solution may differ , quite legitimately , from your neighbour 's ( in fact it is one of the characteristics of a good case study that it can give rise to equally valid alternative solutions ) .
14 The format of the day was : morning session — a lecture on the forensic accountant as an expert witness in civil litigation , focusing on the preparation of the expert 's report and its aims and objectives , followed by a mock trial of a civil case ; afternoon session — a lecture on the role of the forensic accountant in criminal proceedings , focusing on the importance of the accountant in the investigative stage of the proceedings and the preparation of the expert 's report , followed by a mock trial of a criminal case .
15 Even when there was not a conflict of jurisdiction , there would often be much coming and going between the courts to ensure that the various aspects of a complex case were handled in unison ( see pp. 414 f . ) .
16 It was said that on the first occasion that a female student ‘ scrubbed ’ with him he was reaching the end of a long case and held up the piece of cat-gut slung under the ureter ( to identify it and keep it safe during the dissection ) , saying ‘ Cut ! ’
17 These general conditions are derived from intensive studies of a counter-factual case to that of Japan : the example of ‘ manufacturing decline ’ which has been charted for core sectors of the British economy in the post-war period ( Williams et al. , 1983 ) .
18 Thus four of the leading experts in this field — Knight , Sugar , West and Mant — with a combined experience of more than 100 years of forensic medicine , have never seen or read of a single case of an injury like the one which the jury were told knocked out Jonathan Lewis .
19 The interval between the start of county court proceedings and the trial of a contested case can be well over two years .
20 They knew of a fourth case , later confirmed to be that of Keith Parchment , and believed the fifth referred to the Brown case , which technically involved two separate trials .
21 Berlin , however , is something of a special case in the West German higher education scene .
22 But a few are more of a special case than others , and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is one .
23 Here something of a special case , aliens were common in most maritime shires , chiefly in seaports , like Great Yarmouth and Rye , though here and there penetrating farther inland , to work , for example , at ironmaking in the Weald of Sussex , a county where they amounted to about 3 per cent of all taxpayers .
24 The kadilik of Mecca , and that of Medina , constitute something of a special case with respect to their early history .
25 The arbitrators held that the owners ' claim failed and , at the request of the parties , stated their award in the form of a special case .
26 Control of the flow of official information to newspapers and agencies and the giving of carefully orchestrated interviews to foreign correspondents were now usually more likely to be effective in moulding opinion than the mere spending of money ; and France , with its plethora of small , financially insecure and often venal newspapers , was something of a special case .
27 The mark of the adjudicator is simply that he is called upon to decide what parties in dispute should have done or should do in the circumstances of a particular case .
28 The Commission can carry out all necessary investigations into undertakings , having regard to any special features of a particular case .
29 The Revenue stated that a decision on this issue could only be made in the light of all the facts of a particular case .
30 Data for my research was obtained from four main sources : detailed interviews with ‘ samples ’ of front-line workers , such as social workers and health visitors ; a participant observation study of how a sample of new cases were investigated and managed ; examination of files and records ; attendance at case conferences , which are the meetings of professionals with relevant knowledge of a particular case to decide whether child abuse has taken place , and what course of action is in the best interests of the child , or children , concerned .
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