Example sentences of "in any case [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.

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1 With opinion polls showing Labour ahead of the Conservatives , many health service managers are biding their time , not prepared to press forward rapidly with changes which could soon be reversed and which in any case they are reluctant to endorse .
2 Consenting to have one 's mail opened by another , to be visited without prior arrangement , and to have another arrange aspects of one 's plans or activities without prior consultation ( e.g. accepting invitations in one 's name ) may or may not be justified by their instrumental value , but in any case they are taken in our culture as expressing the existence of certain attitudes , as in part constituting those attitudes .
3 This is hardly surprising since not only do they still confer enormous discretion on magistrates , but in any case they are only advisory .
4 Well in any case they 're gon na lose money on it , cos they wo n't get
5 S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return .
6 A very tiny handful of totally unrepresentative films achieved a certain notoriety but were in general lost sight of as attention focused on better films and in any case they were to represent a dead-end rather than a way forward .
7 In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay :
8 It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line .
9 In any case they were told that the count was waiting and the waiter indicated the man who stood in the shadows at the other side of the foyer .
10 It is not important to be concerned with the historical veracity of these statements ( for in any case they were often added to , touched up and re-interpreted ) but with the impact that they had .
11 In any case they were sitting upstairs in Willi 's little loggia ( the gallery of the Spa Rooms had not lent itself to conversion into boxes , but parts of the curved balcony had been sectioned off with wrought-iron grills into small loggias for distinguished guests ) .
12 ‘ And in any case we are related . ’
13 In any case we are left with our desired x — IF/ALT program , in which we note that y is not free .
14 He seemed to have changed his mind with suspicious ease , and in any case she was not at all used to this kind of treatment .
15 Maggie 's outrage at this callous remark was somewhat offset by the fact that he had rescued her , and in any case she was moving off to Ana who was sitting looking very shaky .
16 Workwise , the day was already a write-off and in any case she was eager to know what the girl had to say .
17 He has not read it yet , but in any case he is wrong .
18 In any case he is normally back before eleven .
19 Already his fingers were itching for a pencil , though he was n't allowed to draw yet , and in any case he was n't well enough .
20 He and Dinah together could make books that would be widely read in scholarly circles ; he would achieve recognition of a sort he had never had before ; in America they would know of no disgrace about him , and in any case he was now married .
21 In any case he was not sure that he was interested .
22 Her ‘ usual stuff ’ had built them both a fabulous reputation and in any case he was n't too sure how she would take such a phrase .
23 In any case he was already living where he intended to retire .
24 In a letter to Arthur Greeves , he said that Warnie and Mrs Moore liked each other , ‘ and , I hope , as W. gets broken into domestic life , they may come to do so still more : but in the interval mere is a ticklish time ahead and in any case it is a big sacrifice of our …
25 The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure .
26 In any case it is very doubtful that the majority of Albanians in Kosovo would want to become part of Albania .
27 In any case it is important that librarians remain in close touch with the industry that produces their raw materials , through the literature , and through formal and informal contacts .
28 In any case it is always easier to initiate , rather than terminate , policy .
29 In any case it is not easy to be sure about how an illness will progress or what the outcome of a treatment will be .
30 It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter .
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