Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [art] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 2 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 3 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 5 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 6 | If this were not the case and F t < E ( S T ) , a trader who bought a futures contract now and held it to delivery would , on average , make a profit of E ( S T ) - F t . |
| 7 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 8 | But suppose this were not the case . |
| 9 | If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins . |
| 10 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 11 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 12 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 13 | Variable ET-1-IR was seen in the vascular endothelium , this being particularly the case for Fig 2 — ET-1-IR in diseased human lungs . |
| 14 | But this is rarely the case . |
| 15 | It assumes that an easy consensus can be achieved about the nature of the problem and its resolution , when this is rarely the case . |
| 16 | This is rarely the case with the reviews published in Early music or Gramophone , some of whose reviewers have served as musicological advisers for prominent recording projects both in Europe and in England . |
| 17 | This is particularly the case with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 18 | This is particularly the case in less developed countries and in the rural or other underserved areas of more developed countries . |
| 19 | This is particularly the case in relation to social and familial factors considered , and the members of the individual 's social network interviewed , as part of the assessment process . |
| 20 | This is particularly the case when as here , they are preserved in dark shales , the white calcite of the animal 's skeleton standing out against the background . |
| 21 | This is particularly the case in applying discipline to adolescents . |
| 22 | This is particularly the case with general principles such as making desirable behaviour worthwhile , setting limits and having clearly defined but fair rules of conduct . |
| 23 | This is particularly the case with victims of sexual offences . |
| 24 | This is particularly the case where freedom to protest in public places is concerned . |
| 25 | This is particularly the case for reasoning , where the group of deaf people performs much less well than hearing groups . |
| 26 | This is particularly the case against tough opponents such as Orcs . |
| 27 | This is particularly the case in relation to juveniles , since there is a heavy reliance on family background characteristics as indicators of treatment need , which themselves are likely to be class-related ( see Roshier and Teff , 1980 , pp. 140–1 ) . |
| 28 | For an international business like ICI this is particularly the case . |
| 29 | This is particularly the case in the worlds of politics , sport and entertainment . |
| 30 | This is particularly the case when a child has already developed guilt feelings around its own sexuality or sexual matters in general , or where the sexual atmosphere in family or community is repressive or easily shocked . |