Example sentences of "case of [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prolific Nuremberg poetaster ( : Georg Philipp Harsdörffer published some three hundred didactic Frauenzimmer-Gesprach-Spiele for the virtuous , yet at the same time entertaining , education of young women ; for nine of these little plays Staden wrote music , mostly strophic songs , but in the one case of Seelewig the text was Gesangsweis auf Italienische Art gesetzt . |
| 2 | This is a typical example of Coleridge 's influence , which extended to many other writers of the age ; but in the case of Wordsworth the period of any real exchange of ideas was rapidly coming to an end . |
| 3 | Only rarely , as in the case of Ethna the Bride , did these women ever wish to return home to their mere mortal husbands after a night with the Fairy King . |
| 4 | he says , in the case of Ian the number of occasions where Ian has worked two hours on a Friday morning and then he 's worked Friday Saturday as overtime . |
| 5 | ( Bell 1984 : 168 ) In the case of Sue the travel agent , her convergence was " successful " ( Thakerar et al. |
| 6 | His ‘ insights ’ into human nature are a jumble of cliches , and his novel about a serial killer , Maigret tend un piege ( Maigret Sets a Trap ) , parrots those popular myths on the subject which have obstructed just about every police inquiry since the case of Jack the Ripper . |