Example sentences of "the case for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such a defence were available in murder cases — and the consequence of a successful plea would be to give the court a limited discretion as to the order to be made — the case for a separate doctrine of diminished responsibility would be weak . |
| 2 | The case for a separate traffic corps , strongly resisted by the police , was not worth pursuing . |
| 3 | This move weakens the case for a separate legislature at Stormont . |
| 4 | The Case for a New War Department |
| 5 | Birkenhead put the case for a new party in articles in the Weekly Dispatch . |
| 6 | Second , we will set-down the perspective of the Liberals and SDP — the parties that have been most active in pressing the case for a new constitution precisely because they do not think they can win within the rules of the old one . |
| 7 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
| 8 | The volume puts forward the case for a new discipline . |
| 9 | He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour . |
| 10 | A further objection was to ensure that the independent members received an outside briefing , setting out the case for a substantial increase in pay for the workers covered by that particular Council . |
| 11 | It was also the case for a small number of women with children who felt isolated because their social horizons were constrained by domestic and family expectations . |
| 12 | ‘ It was Winston Churchill who set out most clearly the case for a minimum wage . |
| 13 | It is much easier and it 's much safer and it strikes me to be making the case for a western relief road to provide the relief north to the A one , has already been achieved on the six five eight . |
| 14 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 15 | Macpherson has argued convincingly that it was in the context of just such a society that the case For a representative democracy was initially accepted , first as a logical requirement to protect acquisitive , self-interested and conflicting individuals ( from rapacious governments and from one another ) and second to establish and nurture a free market economy ( MacPherson , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | The case for a European currency union |
| 17 | However , the relevance of this observation when assessing the case for a European currency union is less than obvious . |
| 18 | The case for a compulsory examination at 16+ seems increasingly weak ( and the fact that such examinations are not mentioned in the Secretary of State 's prospective for his newly invented Technology Colleges may reflect this ) . |
| 19 | In practice , however , the BBC knew that as its audience share fell , the case for a compulsory fee would become weaker and that getting the fee raised at the regular three-yearly review would be trickier ( no government was going to win votes by raising the licence fee , even during the years of monopoly ) . |
| 20 | Now is the time to put the case for a special banding system for London . |
| 21 | It can be used to provide the hot water supply for a washing machine , which is not the case for a single point heater . |
| 22 | This is particularly the case for a Conservative government aiming at privatisation and the reduction in controls , an ample supply of land for private development , and the retention of land-use planning at the local level . |
| 23 | The case for a Cornish constituency has also been supported by the business community and leading academics . |
| 24 | However , as Didcot church is no more a precise point than the Bishops Cannings church , the case for a precise alignment must remain unproven . |
| 25 | Yet the case for a fundamental re-appraisal of Labour 's strategy is a simple matter of arithmetic . |
| 26 | Mr Morris said : ‘ We have had several problems with these sort of people and have pressed the case for a basic form of licence before anyone can start keeping animals . |
| 27 | The Conservative Party believes that these are minor qualifications that do not seriously challenge the case for a free market economy . |
| 28 | Throughout the post-war period the case for a high degree of centralised planning was weakening because there was no serious attempt to address the problem of an allocative mechanism which did not give free reign to market prices and collective bargaining . |
| 29 | The case for a British version of this research programme is already a powerful one on safety and traffic grounds alone . |