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

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1 Once again , it may be doubted whether this is sufficiently high for the most serious cases .
2 If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases .
3 We will deal only with self-excited instabilities , but predictions of chaos also exist for the more complex case where the injected signal , or the pumping rate , are modulated .
4 For the more serious cases , there was air transport direct to base hospital , possibly hundreds of miles to the rear .
5 For example , for the very simple case of an ion with a single d electron , such as Ti 3 + , the free ion term is 2 D. In an octahedral field this splits into a lower state 2 T 2g and an upper state 2 E g , just as the d orbitals split into t2 g and e g sets .
6 However , it is clear that not all aspects of deixis can be treated truth-conditionally , as we shall see below , and there are considerable problems even for the apparently tractable cases .
7 This must be one of the most ingenious cases of tool use by any animal .
8 Here we present sketches of some of the key figures in the Brinks-Mat affair — one of the most intriguing cases in British crime .
9 Kilpatrick instituted legal proceedings immediately , and so began one of the most famous cases in both Scottish legal and agricultural histories .
10 ‘ When it is over , this will be one of the most famous cases of our time .
11 Friederike was one of the most serious cases .
12 The legal rules do not distinguish between these two groups — and neither do the ideologues on either side of the debate — but an examination of the most modern cases does suggest that it is easier to prove adverse possession of " empty " land .
13 This must be one of the most blatant cases of ‘ appropriation ’ in the world of contemporary art .
14 Happily , these include some of the most desperate cases , like Borringdon , a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice , but today is a comfortable country house hotel .
15 Thus , the third phase of progress in the 1970s was characterised by selection for surgery of the most favourable cases with the expectation that those not selected for treatment would die .
16 One of the most useful cases is Geo Mitchell where the limitation of liability was by reference to the purchase price .
17 It must be recognised , however , that even with totally adequate resources , some of the most complex cases would still take years to unravel .
18 the police say it 's one of the most sickening cases they 've ever had to deal with …
19 For the modern period , we have detailed reviews of the most notorious cases : the Piltdown hoax , Paul Kammerer 's midwife toad , T. D. Lysenko 's ideological biology , Walter Levy 's parapsychological fabrications , Elias Alsabti 's mass plagiarism ( 60 papers in all ! ) ,
20 One of the most unusual cases of assault to come out of Hollywood in recent times was the allegation brought by manager Marie Pastor against The Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio .
21 Meanwhile , Tracey is about to embark on one of the most unusual cases of her career .
22 Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study .
23 Rough estimates of cost are used to create a priority list of the most promising cases for further study .
24 Last night a detective investigating the tragedy said : ‘ It is one of the most distressing cases I have ever come across .
25 One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon .
26 Before looking in more detail at the different kinds of library on the list it is worth examining some of the less obvious cases .
27 Of the genuinely difficult cases , those in which the jurist appears to use unclear language , most can be explained on the linguistic argument .
28 Ms Reeves explains : ‘ With each of the really serious cases — rape , murder , racial harassment — there simply is n't anyone to refer people on to .
29 Although decisions in this type of case will very much depend upon their own facts , it is not easy to reconcile some of the more recent cases with the principles enunciated in Reg. v. Heston-Francois and Reg. v. Derby Crown Court , Ex parte Brooks , 80 Cr.App.R. 164 .
30 Some of the more difficult cases turned up at her office , where she had to cope without professional help .
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