Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] [adj] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Professional Association of Teachers has produced details of a particularly disturbing case in which a teacher in the independent sector was summarily dismissed very rapidly after making serious allegations against a colleague . |
| 2 | One example of a very successful case was the recouping of benefit arrears for a client . |
| 3 | To them it sounded like a straight forward case of victimisation by the foreman . |
| 4 | This seems like a pretty powerful case for the free enterprise ideal espoused in the Conservative Election Manifesto that we quoted at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 5 | These constitutional provisions had previously been called into question during a highly controversial case in February 1992 when the High Court in Dublin prevented a 14-year-old girl and her family from procuring an abortion or from leaving Ireland for nine months , even though she had repeatedly threatened to commit suicide ; the order preventing her from leaving the country was subsequently lifted after an appeal based on recognition of the equal rights of mother and child and the right to freedom of movement within the EC [ see p. 38780 ] . |
| 6 | This kind of summary is possible with a relatively short case , but you will find that it becomes progressively more difficult with the longer ones . |
| 7 | Let us make our problem into a more extreme case . |
| 8 | Unfortunately suffering from a highly developed case of techno-phobia , the first night ‘ WARP ’ special was the very stuff of my personal nightmares . |
| 9 | But , as I have said , your opinion on this should not ( except in a completely unarguable case ) deter you from taking the problem each way . |
| 10 | Other than in a most exceptional case , I doubt whether a judge who heard that a defendant in the charge of a jury was being interrogated under compulsory powers would have a moment 's hesitation about what to do . |
| 11 | A small clock had gone from the sitting room , and a watch in a slightly mildewed case . |
| 12 | His attempt to get legal redress in a particularly flagrant case ( in which the Christmas Carol was pirated virtually wholesale ) proved totally frustrating . |
| 13 | It is not at all clear why a plaintiff seeking material located in , say , France or Germany , but able to invoke United States jurisdiction ( available , perhaps , as a result of the long-arm claims to extensive jurisdiction made by Federal or State courts ) should be able to claim that American practices should apply as exclusively as in a purely domestic case . |
| 14 | Even when we are balancing one consideration against another in a quite particular case , to decide which of two conflicting prima facie obligations is the more stringent , we are trying to reach such an intuition , but the wealth of detail which determines the relative degrees of stringency in this case will make it inexpressible in a formula mechanically applicable to other cases . |
| 15 | On occasion it was vital in a really bad case to carry out a tracheostomy — that is , to put a small tube into the trachea or windpipe , below the level of the swelling which is causing the breathing difficulty — but this was only rarely required . |
| 16 | In a more serious case a report from a consultant , usually an orthopaedic consultant , will be necessary . |
| 17 | If the matter is taken in a more serious case by indictment then the fine is unlimited . |
| 18 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 19 | In 1793 , in a more striking case , a boy of seventeen was left at the beginning of the struggle with the French revolution as the sole British representative at the military headquarters of the king of Prussia . |
| 20 | In a more recent case it was said that the evidence called must be commensurate with the seriousness of the allegations made ( per Butler-Sloss LJ in R v Birmingham CC , ex pP [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 221 ) . |
| 21 | In a more typical case , when attempting a street arrest ‘ a hostile mob raised the cry of ‘ Boot them ’ ’ against the police' ; , in another , police attempting to separate a man and woman who were quarrelling were ‘ set upon by a crowd of 200 persons , who called out ‘ Boot them ’ ’ , and they were assaulted and kicked' . |
| 22 | Numerous requests for this purpose could impose an intolerable burden and not all of those requests would admit of a ready answer , having regard to the Director of Public Prosecution 's duty to prosecute and to make use of the most cogent evidence , particularly in a very serious case of great notoriety . |
| 23 | For the study of local history there is , except in a very few cases , little need to look before Saxon times . |
| 24 | Only in a very few cases can incompleteness be acceptable . |
| 25 | In a very few cases , serious mental disorders similar to schizophrenia or mania have been reported that may be due to a direct effect of HIV on the brain . |
| 26 | However , you need also to know that in a very few cases , you can get a negative result even though you are infected . |
| 27 | In all Boards there was certainly an increase in red tape and committee work , and perhaps a loss of initiative and an unwillingness to take responsibility among managers and engineers , and , in a very few cases , simple unchecked extravagance . |
| 28 | Only in a very few cases are points awarded explicitly to recognize the need to reside in specific rural locations , which is a sad reflection on the past role of allocation policy . |
| 29 | It 's an allergic condition , usually pretty harmless , but in a very few cases it causes oedema of the larynx — that 's what we 've got here . " |
| 30 | The sign made up of these two elements is arbitrary for two reasons : because , more obviously , the association of a signifier ( the sound-image ‘ tree ’ ) with a signified ( the concept tree ) is , except in a very few cases , fundamentally the product of linguistic convention , not of any natural link ; and , less obviously , because there is also no natural or necessary relationship between the sign as a whole and the reality to which it refers . |