Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] case [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 2 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 3 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 4 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 5 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 6 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 7 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 8 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
| 9 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |