Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [prep] [adj] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now know much more about surviving hunters and gatherers than was known in Morgan 's day and , although sexual unions among them may in some cases be very unstable , in others they are not . |
| 2 | I should in any case have answered Elizabeth 's kind little note , but a reference to Ivy at once warmed me towards her . |
| 3 | It seems to me appropriate and indeed perhaps essential that one should offer a brief biographical sketch of Proust on an occasion like this , but I shall try to avoid the unbalance of which I 've spoken , by at least relating the biography to the circumstances in which the novel was written , and I shall in any case spend the major part of the time that remains on an examination of the novel itself . |
| 4 | During periods of very cold weather , you may in some cases be able to claim an additional £5 for each very cold week . |
| 5 | In discussing the " Wagnerian " aspect of the book , we should in any case remember that during the later part of 1871 Nietzsche actually reduced the extend of Wagner 's presence in it , rather than increased it . |
| 6 | ‘ And if we journey on with him we shall in any case finish the bread , ham , and cheese together . |
| 7 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 8 | Indeed , although regulatory offences in the abstract may be regarded as of minor consequence they may in certain cases have drastic results . |
| 9 | If they were assertive and asked for what they wanted rather than ‘ manipulated ’ , they would in many cases be more successful . |
| 10 | This rule was founded on a principle of policy , for if sailors were in all events to have their wages , and in times of danger entitled to insist on an extra charge on such a promise as this , they would in many cases suffer a ship to sink , unless the captain would pay an extravagant demand they might think proper to make . ’ |
| 11 | If Coleman was next on the hit list , they would in any case be safer travelling on their own . |
| 12 | They will in most cases lead to brain damage , or a range of specific physical abnormalities usually identified as some form of ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 13 | At home it may in some cases be the parents who notice something ‘ odd ’ about their baby 's eyes or feel an unease about the baby 's visual behaviour . |
| 14 | The part of the procedure that it may in some cases be desirable to include will be a provision that the parties will disclose confidential documents or authorise production of documents by a third party ; see clause 2 of precedent 1 in Appendix A. |
| 15 | The consensus is that the world is not yet ready for it , and it may in any case never be necessary . |
| 16 | It should in any case use the total-chromatic consistently . |
| 17 | With fewer resources it might in some cases have been necessary , and would certainly have been lawful , to preserve the peace by preventing individual returning miners from attempting to pass through picket lines . |
| 18 | Despite its lack of amenities , he might in any case have preferred it to Peabody accommodation , with its ban upon wallpaper and its walls bare of plaster to prevent vermin . |
| 19 | Law pessimistically told the King that he would in any case alienate half of his subjects , Unionists if he gave his assent to Home Rule and Liberals if he did not . |
| 20 | What caused me concern was , as I say , the slightly uncomfortable feeling that Eliot had been bounced into writing an article which he did not particularly relish doing and to which he would in any case have wished to devote much more reflection . |
| 21 | The life which Jesus advocated must have necessarily had an appeal to men rather than to women , for it would in many cases have put women in an impossible position . |
| 22 | He declined Dinah 's offer ; no doubt it would in any case be thought improper for two young ladies to drive a young man home . |
| 23 | To the extent that such approaches may suggest the desirability of changing over to a counter-force nuclear policy , they escape from the moral frying-pan of counter-city targeting into the strategic fire of counter-force , which has the twin disadvantages that it might put a premium on first strike and that it would in any case result in frightful civilian losses . |
| 24 | To make things still worse , he added that it would in any case be quite useless for them to make plans without the king 's approval , for nothing could be achieved without his collaboration . |
| 25 | It would in any case be difficult to derive the high Sr/Y , La/Yb ratios and low Y and HREE contents of these magmas by fractional crystallization of the main phases present in the rocks : plagioclase , hornblende and clino- pyroxene . |
| 26 | He will in such cases be under an absolute duty to keep floors , stairs , passages and gangways maintained in an efficient state and in good repair ( Factories Act 1961 , s28(1) , s176(1) ; Galashiels Gas Co Ltd v O'Donnell [ 1949 ] AC 275 ) . |
| 27 | We use the phrase " trade connections " rather than " customer connections " because the interest is not limited to customers of the employer ; it can in certain cases extend to potential customers and also to suppliers : see Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 3 All ER 288 and Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 116 . |