Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] [adj] cases " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be argued even so that in 10 cases the investigative work turned out to be a waste of time and caused great distress to the families investigated . |
| 2 | First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse . |
| 3 | Where the resource areas are widely dispersed , the territory is large , and where the territory is small , the same number or extent of resource areas are closer together , so that in both cases the predator gets its food from similar sized hunting areas but from quite different territory sizes . |
| 4 | For HP 9000 Unix workstations and business servers , system-oriented software is moving from a seven-tier model to a three-tier structure based on expandability , not processor power so that in both cases , customers can increase processing power without incurring software-upgrade fees — eat your heart out , IBM AS/400 users . |
| 5 | The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid . |
| 6 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 7 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 8 | Interestingly , it cuts across several parishes , so that in some cases very small areas of parish land are isolated behind the massive earthworks of the dyke . |
| 9 | In both studies the patients were retested within a week of ending treatment , however , so that in some cases infection may have persisted . |
| 10 | As the cations are leached , the acidity rises and the phosphorus becomes re-locked with the iron and aluminium , so that in some cases at least , phosphorus is the first limiting nutrient . |
| 11 | The last syllable is usually quite prominent so that in some cases it could be said to have secondary stress . |
| 12 | The TNCs will naturally and in many cases justifiably argue that what their critics consider to be the creation of new needs in developing countries in order to boost profits is , in fact , a response to changing consumer needs that arise in societies that are in the process of urbanization and industrialization . |
| 13 | A depressive reaction of psychotic proportion frequently occurs alone but in other cases it may be replaced by a state of mania which may also , though more rarely , be found without swings into depression . |
| 14 | The problem is , they will not own up to their selectivity ( perhaps because in most cases , it is so biased as to be indefensible ) . |
| 15 | But it is normally an appeal to possible rather than to actual cases that is used to generate scepticism about the existence of minds other than our own . |
| 16 | These armies of peasant conscripts , mercenaries and ne'er-do-wells were officered predominantly and in many cases overwhelmingly by nobles . |
| 17 | Alternatively it may be said bluntly that in all cases of intimidation , whatever the nature of the threatened act , C's cause of action is wholly independent of B's . |
| 18 | One of the most important reasons for this is that the Latin American elites reacted quickly and in most cases effectively to the social and economic changes brought about by the industrialisation , urbanisation and immigration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 19 | In some cases you can upgrade the hardware by adding extra RAM etc. but in most cases where it is built into the motherboard is is n't . |
| 20 | In the same product lines where foreign investors generally specialize , national firms do not necessarily behave differently and in some cases they might promote the direct use of less labor . |
| 21 | Regrettably , history suggests that people who are mentally vulnerable are consulted infrequently and in some cases are neglected , exploited and mistreated through either thoughtlessness or cruelty . |
| 22 | The former have moved into this field partly because , with the publication of the Haycocks Report , the time was ripe , but also partly because in many cases , having absorbed colleges of education whose role in initial teacher training for schools has greatly diminished , they wished to redeploy the resources into further education teacher training . |
| 23 | Teall 's aim was to publish the map and memoir of an area simultaneously and in some cases this was achieved . |
| 24 | But Robson tells the stories sparingly and in many cases adds modern twists as a sort of verification that age old phantoms might still exist . |
| 25 | I know very well that in many cases this is in the mind of the palaeontologist rather than in the rocky facts themselves . |
| 26 | It must be the theoretical aspects of a subject that are employed to encourage free , imaginative thought , speculation , and the conceptual connections between one subject and another , even if in some cases this leads to a breakdown of the divisions between traditional ‘ subjects ’ . |
| 27 | All the recordings are sharp and lively , even if in some cases forty years old . |
| 28 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 29 | However what does seem clear is that non-traditional students are capable of performing at least as well and in some cases better than traditionally qualified students throughout British higher education . |
| 30 | Just as the most difficult task of the manager is ruthless intellectual honesty about his own skills , weaknesses and motives , so it is notoriously difficult to be as near as possible totally objective about the strengths and weaknesses of your company , particularly because in many cases a perceived weakness can actually be utilized as a source of strength . |