Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] [adj] cases [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 2 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 3 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 4 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 5 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |