Example sentences of "it be [prep] [adj] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's in the case of how we police students that the question about where we draw the line and how far we become engaged are most problematic , I think , and it 's in that case really that I 'm proposing this distinction . |
| 2 | I mean this is just the areas that I 've touched on , and again it 's in many cases it 's only fringe . |
| 3 | A the moment it is in most cases just about possible to say that , according to a family history , a certain risk exists . |
| 4 | Ideally , it is necessary to have a large series of fairly complete skeletons of one particular ethnic group , for it is in most cases only by noting the variability in the collection that any degree of certainty in sexing can be achieved . |
| 5 | It is in these cases that the ‘ associative ’ character of some feminist psychologies becomes clearest . |
| 6 | It is in any case certain that for years before Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound had been studying , not for their content chiefly but as models of musical form , the poems in quantitative metre of ancient Greece . |
| 7 | One litter a year is quite enough for my needs , and it is in any case very much better to look after one litter properly — it may number eight or a dozen — than to spread the effort ( and the food available ) through a much larger number . |
| 8 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 9 | ( And it is in any case a singularly unromantic name ! ) |
| 10 | Arcturus can be found by following round the curve of Ursa Major , but it is in any case quite unmistakable ; it has a K-type spectrum , and is a lovely light orange , so that in binoculars it is beautiful . |
| 11 | Which motive was dominant can only be a matter of opinion , but it is in any case unrealistic to grade them too rigorously . |
| 12 | It is in any case always sound practice to start with two machines rather than one , so that there is a backup machine if one breaks down . |
| 13 | The assumption is offensive to teachers ; it encourages professional dependency ; it discourages professional autonomy and self-motivated development ; and it is in any case empirically unsustainable . |
| 14 | Which motive was dominant can only be a matter of opinion , but it is in any case unrealistic to grade them too rigorously . |
| 15 | It is in any case impossible to come empty-handed . |
| 16 | Now we are of course talking principally on this sixty hectare allocation for the district outside the Greater York area because I think it is well understood this enquiry can have comparatively little impact on how much development takes place within the surroundings of Greater York , because I understand the site that 's being discussed is already committed and it is in any case part of the York pool rather than the Harrogate pool . |
| 17 | It is like those cases where women were , perhaps are , discriminated against because they were not ‘ strong ’ enough for a job or part of a job ; but most people would prefer for such a task a strapping wench to a seven-stone male weakling , who gets the sand kicked into his eyes by the beach bully , courtesy of the Charles Atlas advert . |
| 18 | In the context of medical decisions , it would be perverse for it to act otherwise than in accordance with the advice of its medical staff when that advice was unanimous as it was in this case , the two other paediatric consultants on its staff wholly agreeing with Dr. I. The Official Solicitor , as J. 's guardian ad litem , was of the same view on the strength of the independent advice of Dr. N. |
| 19 | Such situations are notoriously unstable , as it was in this case , for the team remained together in that form for less than a year . |
| 20 | And though the Major was a man of very much greater intelligence than the headmaster , it was in this case , for once in his life , Mr Crumwallis who was in the right . |
| 21 | Theodora wondered which it was in this case . |
| 22 | It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did . |
| 23 | It was in any case no easy task to remove the hard stubble which covered Marcus 's face and neck , though it had been cut as short as possible by Irina 's nail-scissors . |
| 24 | It was in any case too late for the League of Nations to move against the Nazis since they were in power as a result of legal democratic electoral procedures . |
| 25 | It was in any case only to be expected that a serious move by the Community to advance further through a reduction of national sovereignty and freedom to act independently would generate a nationalist opposition . |
| 26 | Some of it was in any case independent of the Neville influence , notably the element deriving from the duchy of York . |
| 27 | And it was in any case a miracle that none of the random energy pulses had hit her . |
| 28 | Some of it was in any case independent of the Neville influence , notably the element deriving from the duchy of York . |
| 29 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |