Example sentences of "[adj] case of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macbeth is a classic case of a man who does not understand about the co-operation between free will and luck . |
| 2 | A classic case of a country with the wrong priorities in health is Congo . |
| 3 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 4 | A classic case of a change of publisher doing wonders for the author . |
| 5 | Internally , they mirror the structure of an expert 's thought , in this case of a doctor 's thoughts , which tends to be much more . |
| 6 | However , another case of a child brought up in semi-isolation illustrates how unusual behaviour patterns would seem to be the product of minimal socialisation rather than the result of any inherent deficiency or abnormality . |
| 7 | Here was another case of a heroin-user with Parkinson-like symptoms . |
| 8 | I believe my German colleagues did not enjoy the same facilities in another case of a Spantax Coronado that crashed in Spain full of German nationals on an inclusive tour . |
| 9 | As another illustration there is the interesting case of a lady of seventy . |
| 10 | A buyer does not obtain good title except in the limited case of a market overt between hours of sunrise and sunset . |
| 11 | Nikola ( Figure 4.3 ) is a straightforward case of a transfer from the first year of one degree course direct into the second year of another . |
| 12 | He considered that a multiplier of 12 was substantially too high for the ordinary case of a man dying at age 53 , leaving a widow of 52 and a child of 18 . |
| 13 | In the ordinary case of a man earning a regular wage or salary , there is little difficulty in assessing damages under this head . |
| 14 | In the very simple case of a word presented visually for memorisation , some of this information will include the size and colour of the letters , various levels of meaning including the dictionary meaning , its part of speech , and other closely related words . |
| 15 | ‘ That was not a simple case of a husband obtaining a document from his wife ; it was also a case where the document had been obtained by a trustee from his cestui que trust by means of pressure and the concealment of material facts … |
| 16 | This shows the simple case of a spin axis which is perpendicular to the line of sight . |
| 17 | In the rarer case of a midsole failures the shoe often feels like a flat tyre , losing its bounce and becoming harder . |
| 18 | Save for the obvious case of a handful of Staplers , the returns do not distinguish merchants . |
| 19 | Here is a curious case of a foreigner already being hailed as an England batting hero long before he was qualified and thrust into the side as soon as he appeared to be . |
| 20 | Belgium is the extreme case of a country whose own institutions are so weak that EC integration seems the only substitute . |
| 21 | In an extreme case of a rise of 5–6 m in sea level , the USA would lose most of its southern coastal lowlands including half of the state of Florida . |
| 22 | This was the first case of a person brought to trial under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . |
| 23 | The first case of a patient with familial adenomatous polyposis ( FAP ) who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the anpulla of Vater is described . |
| 24 | We report the first case of a patient with FAP who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the ampulla of Vater . |
| 25 | We will consider the general case of a CD purchased after issue and sold before maturity . |
| 26 | We again consider the general case of a TB purchased after issue and sold before maturity . |
| 27 | Introducing the convergence factor , where , in the general case of a signal F(t) which is zero before time , leads to a modified transform which it is customary to express in terms of the complex variable as This particular transform is known as the Laplace transform . |
| 28 | Methylation of 2'-deoxyuridine-5'-monophosphate ( dUMP ) to deoxythymidine-5'-monophosphate ( dTMP ) , catalysed by thymidilate synthetase , is the paradigmatic case of a reaction that proceeds via a covalent adduct , formed reversibly by Michael addition of the enzyme to the C 5 -C 6 double bond of its pyrimidine substrate ; for a review see Pogolotti and Santi ( 1 ) . |
| 29 | Pornography is not , as Dworkin ( 1981 ) suggests it is , the main causal agent of women 's subordination , because it is merely one case of a phenomenon that is commonplace : women have been treated as objects throughout history . |
| 30 | The report mentions one case of a man who tried to sell a plant which would convert rubbish into natural gas , and was only unmasked as a fraud at a late stage when it was shown that his scheme involved a chemically impossible process . |